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August garden calendar
Quick ReadHere's a chore for every day of the month
Photo credit: Handout | August is prime tomato-picking time!
The garden bursts with abundance in August, with plump, juicy red tomatoes and fragrant herbs for the kitchen, and lavender blue spikes of Russian sage and towering muted Joe Pye weed for the soul. Don't be fooled into thinking you can just sit back and enjoy it now. If you do, you might regret it come spring.
1. Harvest zucchini while they're small; they'll taste better.
2. Keep mower...
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