August Garden Tasks 2025
North Texas Gardening Tips for August 2025
Average High is 96°. Average Low is 75°.
It's summer in the DFW, so this month, it's all about surviving the heat, making sure your garden continues to flourish, and preparing for the seasons ahead. Let's talk heat-tolerant care, strategic planting, and prepping for fall.
It's summer in the DFW, so this month, it's all about surviving the heat, making sure your garden continues to flourish, and preparing for the seasons ahead. Let's talk heat-tolerant care, strategic planting, and prepping for fall.
Keep the summer bounty coming: Continue harvesting your veggies while they’re still going strong. Stay ahead of pesky weeds with quick pull sessions and get some exercise! Don’t forget to treat your soil with regular amending to add soil biology and get it ready for your fall planting.
Mulch Like A Pro: Blanket your beds with mulch to lock in moisture and cool the roots during triple-digit days. Mulch keeps weeds down, too.
Hydration Rituals: Early morning watering = less evaporation + healthier roots. Bonus: the garden is peaceful then. Water when you are having your morning cup of joe (that's coffee, to you youngsters out there!).
Fresh mint surrounded by a healthy dose of mulch to cool roots and keep in moisture.
Kick off your fall harvest early: August is the perfect time to start planning for a cooler-season garden. Get your hands a little dirty and start seeds indoors for delicious fall favorites like broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, and colorful Swiss chard.
Need seeds? Be sure and explore our abundant selection from Botanical Interests and get growing!
Give your annuals a quick refresh: If your annuals that you planted earlier are looking a bit leggy or tired, give them a trim and a light fertilizing to perk them up. This little refresh will encourage lush new growth and blooms that keep the color coming right into fall.
Need seeds? Be sure and explore our abundant selection from Botanical Interests and get growing!
Give your annuals a quick refresh: If your annuals that you planted earlier are looking a bit leggy or tired, give them a trim and a light fertilizing to perk them up. This little refresh will encourage lush new growth and blooms that keep the color coming right into fall.
It's time to sow seeds for cool-season veggies like lettuce and other leafy greens.
World Honeybee Day Is August 16: Buzz into action to help celebrate and promote bees by planting a colorful, bee-friendly garden. Make bees buzz with joy by including Basil, Lavender, and Catmint.
Turn up the heat with bold blooms: Plant heat loving beauties like vinca, portulaca, pentas, coneflowers, and asters now for a garden that keeps the color coming. These tough, vibrant plants love the warmth and will keep things lively while cooler temps creep in.
Celebrate bees this month with World Honeybee Day on August 16. Here, a bee is enjoying his time with a beautiful, purple coneflower.
Keep Your Lawn Happy and Healthy this August by using the water-saving cycle and soak method. Not sure what that is? No worries—just watch our video or ask one of our in-house garden gurus.
Give your grass a summer break: Raise your mower blade higher in August to help keep your lawn roots cooler during the hottest days.
