Gardener lunar calendar august 2018

The last summer month for each gardener is the most stressful period. After all, you need not only to harvest, preserve the grown products, lay vegetables for storage.

At this time, sowing and grafting of crops, replanting, separation of mother plants of perennials are also carried out. Being the busiest month, August is the most favorable time for all work in the garden and the garden. The lunar calendar almost entirely consists of days suitable for agricultural practices.

Work in progress in August on garden and garden plots

At the “sunset” of summer, caring owners will not only collect and process the ripened crop. Tasks for each summer resident will be preparatory work in the garden, vegetable garden, flower garden. After all, it is in August that preparations for the next season take place, on the implementation of which the success of the future harvest depends.

In the garden

The most difficult part of the work in the garden in the last month is the collection and preparation of the crops for storage in the bins. At the end of August, they begin to clean greenhouses and hotbeds from plants that dry up and give their fruits. The following tasks are also carried out in the garden:

1. Processing of free areas: weed-free, digging or loosening with a plane cutter, mulching.
2. Collection of vegetables and berries for processing and bookmarks for storage.
3. Caring for crops that continue to grow in open and closed ground.
4. Crops for the second turn: radish, spinach, dill, lettuce, onions on a feather.
5. Pinching of apical shoots for early ripening of fruits in tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet pepper, eggplant.
6. Division of mother liquors of vegetable and berry crops: chives, rhubarb, strawberries, strawberries.
7. Cuttings and planting of lignified stems of black, red, white currants.

In addition to the listed works, the main task is to prepare cellars, bins for laying the crop. All storages in August are treated with disinfectants, dried, ventilated, and sand is prepared for pouring carrots, beets, turnips.

In the garden

The most responsible gardening job for a summer resident is the August fruit picking. Late cherries, plums, early apples and pears ripen this month. However, in addition to picking fruit, gardening includes:

1. Inoculation of fruit, ornamental trees.
2. Rooting cuttings of fruit crops.
3. Collection and sowing seeds of decorative trees.
4. Allocation of lignified branches of fir and thuja.
5. Preparing holes for the autumn planting of seedlings of fruit and ornamental trees.
6. Disinfection and drying of bins for storing fruits.
7. Implementation of measures to combat pathogens and parasites in horticultural crops.
8. Pinching of apical shoots in tall ornamental and fruit shrubs.

Doing the main work in the garden, summer residents prepare fruit storages. The bins are cleaned of litter, fumigated with a sulfur saber, aired.Shelves and exterior in fruit storages are bleached with lime, dried.

In the flower garden

Most of the August works in flower beds focused on caring for already flowering plants, propagating perennials and biennials. The work plan for the last month of summer is:

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• cut flowers for making bouquets;
• separation and transplantation of mother plants of rhizome cultures;
• division and transplantation of bulbous plants like lilies, iridodictiums;
• collecting seeds of summers;
• sowing seeds of perennial and biennial flowers in open ground;
• planting biennial seedlings in a permanent place;
• the last fertilizer for dahlias, chrysanthemums, cannes.

In addition to the main August works in the flower garden, plant growers carry out all the necessary etching of crops from damage by diseases and parasite insects. For a good wintering of perennials, root dressing of flowers with potassium is carried out.

What work to do in the garden in August 2018

A lunar calendar compiled by astrologers for gardening is presented with a daily recommendation table. According to the month, the first two weeks of the month fall on a waning month. For this reason, this entire period will be suitable for picking fruits, canning, cultivating the soil and feeding. In the second half of the month after the new moon, the Queen of the Night will grow and will favorably act on the growth and development of plants. Therefore, after the 12th and until the end of August, budding of fruit and ornamental trees will be successful.

What work to do in the garden in August 2018

The night star, which is in the declining phase, has a positive effect on the development of the root system of vegetables. Therefore, during this period, astrologers recommend planting corms, planting seedlings for autumn cultivation in greenhouses. The presented table shows that the second half of the month will favor the growth of the vegetative mass of vegetable crops.

What work to do with indoor plants and in the flower garden in August 2018

The lunar month of work on the last days of summer pleases flower lovers with a number of favorable days. In the first half of August, stargazers recommend etching and top dressing of indoor flowers and perennials. And with the active growth of the Queen of the Night in the second half of the month - to engage in sowing seeds, dividing mother liquors and transplanting plants.

Bad days

According to the lunar month, in August 2018 there will be only two adverse days -11 and 26. All the rest of the time, you can safely carry out all the necessary work to care for the plants without fear for their well-being. The recommendations of astrologers will be useful to all people planning to harvest a good crop, preserve it and correctly carry out all the necessary homework.

Mandatory work in August to improve the soil

At the end of the summer, all efforts were directed to the collection of fruits and the preparation of home preservation. However, we must not forget that it is necessary to carefully prepare the bins, to process the released greenhouse structures from pathogens and larvae accumulated over the summer.A mandatory event in August is the sowing of green manure fertilizers. To improve crop rotation, and, accordingly, the soil, you need to sow plants that help neutralize pathogenic bacteria, fill the earth with trace elements.

On all August days, except the 11th and 26th day, sow:

1. Clover, mouse peas, alfalfa. These plants enrich the soil with nitrogen.
2. Lupine will saturate the soil and culture that will be cultivated next season with phosphorus.
3. Mustard, oil radish for enriching the soil with sulfur, phosphorus, potassium.
4. Rye for weed control and nematodes.

All days in August you need to collect spoiled fruits and berries that fell prematurely from the trees. Carefully inspect all garden and ornamental crops for damage by pathogens and parasites. If sick and affected areas are found, treat with fungicides, acaricides and insecticides.

The lunar months in August 2018 will help every gardener and gardener to clearly adjust all activities, avoiding delays in harvesting or transplanting flowers.