Your courgette plants may be producing an abundance of courgettes but don’t forget the flowers. They are a delicacy that is virtually impossible to buy. Dip them in a tempura batter, deep fry and serve with chilli dipping sauce.
Onions and shallots can be lifted and used whenever you want. But for storage, lift them when the foliage turns yellow and leave to dry in the sunshine or in a greenhouse before tying into ropes or putting in net bags.
Remove any yellowing and dropped leaves from around your brassicas to keep fungal diseases at bay and keep a look-out for cabbage white eggs – they are yellowy-green and hidden on the underside of the leaves. Squash them as you find them!
When summer raspberries have finished fruiting remove the spent raspberry canes and tie in the new growth.
Keep on top of the weeds – they takes essential moisture and nutrients out of the soil and away from your cherished fruit and vegetables.
What to sow in August
- Cabbage (Spring, Chinese)
- Endive
- Kohl Rabi
- Lettuce
- Onion (from seed)
- Spinach
- Turnip
What to plant in August
- Time to harvest and swap any excess fruit and veg!
What to harvest in August
- Artichoke
- Aubergine
- Beetroot
- Broad Bean
- Broccoli (Green varieties)
- Cabbage (Summer)
- Capiscum
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Courgette
- Cucumber
- French bean
- Leaf Beet
- Kohl Rabi
- Lettuce
- Mange tout
- Marrow
- Onion
- Pea
- Potato
- Radish
- Runner Bean
- Spinach
- Summer cabbage
- Sweetcorn
- Tomato
- Turnip