Moon Planting calendar of August

VEGETABLE PATCH: In mild regions and in a nursery, sow white onion (to transplant in October for a harvest in March-April) and colored onion (especially in warmer areas for these last ones) / It's still time to sow Asian radish and colorful daikon radish / Try sowing a batch of black salsify: if you sow now, you'll harvest at the end of summer next year, whereas a spring batch sown in March-April is harvestable from October to March).

Don't garden before 10:55 AM – moon is at perigee at 5:52 AM

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day, in mild regions and in a nursery, for sowing white onion (to transplant in October for a harvest in March-April) and colored onion (especially in warmer areas for these last ones) / It's still time to sow Asian radish and colorful daikon radish / Try sowing a batch of black salsify: if you sow now, you'll harvest at the end of summer next year, whereas a spring batch sown in March-April is harvestable from October to March).

LANDSCAPING: Sow perennial lupine directly in the growing bed / In a nursery, sow perennials (flax, columbine, agastache) and biennials (pansy, daisy, ravenelle wallflower, carnation, forget-me-not, viola, poppy) / Harvest lime tree, remove stems and let it dry in the shade / Now is the time to graft rose buds on dogrose (shield grafting) to propagate your favorite rose trees.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Sow scorpionweed on bare plots in the vegetable patch.

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for sowing perennial lupine directly in the growing bed / In a nursery, sow perennials (flax, columbine, agastache) and biennials (pansy, daisy, ravenelle wallflower, carnation, forget-me-not, viola, poppy) / Harvest lime tree, remove stems and let it dry in the shade / Now is the time to graft rose buds on dogrose (shield grafting) to propagate your favorite rose trees.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for sowing scorpionweed (phacelia) on bare plots in the vegetable patch.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Sow cutting lettuce and hardy lettuce (winter lettuce, corn salad) without forgetting spinach / Sow mizuna cabbage, kale, winter cabbage, red cabbage and brussels sprouts / In a nursery, sow white cabbage if you're in an area with a mild climate. / Sow green manure (rye, phacelia, vetch, white mustard, creeping clover or common buckwheat in cooler areas) on any bare vegetable patch plots, or in-between rows of broccoli / Sow herbs that belong to the Apiaceae family: chervil, dill, coriander, caraway, fennel

Harvest herbs before they bloom, together with plants needed to prepare fermented tea (nettle, comfrey).

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for sowing cutting lettuce and hardy lettuce (winter lettuce, corn salad) without forgetting spinach / Sow mizuna cabbage, kale, winter cabbage, red cabbage and brussels sprouts / In a nursery, sow white cabbage if you're in an area with a mild climate. / Sow green manure (rye, phacelia, vetch, white mustard, creeping clover or common buckwheat in cooler areas) on any bare vegetable patch plots, or in-between rows of broccoli / Sow herbs that belong to the Apiaceae family: chervil, dill, coriander, caraway, fennel

Harvest herbs before they bloom, together with plants needed to prepare fermented tea (nettle, comfrey).

Don't garden before 7:45 AM – lunar node at 2:45 AM

ORCHARD: Pursue shield grafting on pip fruit trees (apple, pear, quince) and stone fruit trees (plum, apricot, peach, almond, cherry).

VEGETABLE PATCH: Harvest tomato, melon, watermelon, shell bean and mangetout, strawberry and raspberry / In warmer climates, sow a new batch of dwarf bean / Harvest shell bean to eat fresh or to dry (hang them in bunches in a well-ventilated spot) / Collect tomato seed.

ORCHARD: 2nd day for pursuing shield grafting on pip fruit trees (apple, pear, quince) and stone fruit trees (plum, apricot, peach, almond, cherry).

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for harvesting tomato, melon, watermelon, shell bean and mangetout, strawberry and raspberry / In warmer climates, sow a new batch of dwarf bean / Harvest shell bean to eat fresh or to dry (hang them in bunches in a well-ventilated spot) / Collect tomato seed.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Sow monthly cycle radish, winter radish, spring onion (transplant these in October for a harvest at the end of winter or early in spring), swede, black salsify, turnip and winter carrot.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for sowing monthly cycle radish, winter radish, spring onion (transplant these in October for a harvest at the end of winter or early in spring), swede, black salsify, turnip and winter carrot.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 3rd day for sowing monthly cycle radish, winter radish, spring onion (transplant these in October for a harvest at the end of winter or early in spring), swede, black salsify, turnip and winter carrot.

LANDSCAPING: Continue planting fall-blooming bulb flowers / Plant Madonna lily / Cut back rock rose after the blooming (remove about one-third from each stem so that the clump stays compact) / Finish pruning ornamental sage / Prepare cuttings from rose trees / It is still time to divide and transplant old clumps of Iris and daylily / Transplant perennials and annuals sown in July.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Transplant broccoli and cauliflower.

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for planting fall-blooming bulb flowers / Plant Madonna lily / Cut back rock rose after the blooming (remove about one-third from each stem so that the clump stays compact) / Finish pruning ornamental sage / Prepare cuttings from rose trees / It is still time to divide and transplant old clumps of Iris and daylily / Transplant perennials and annuals sown in July.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for transplanting broccoli and cauliflower.

LANDSCAPING: Keep clearing free-growing plots to bring them back to shape / Start pruning hedges (thuya, boxwood, privet, silverberry, hornbeam, spindle) and topiary; you'll have more time to finish this in a few days / If you're looking to sow a new lawn (normally sowing is in September for lawn grass), now is the time to prepare the soil: spade, break clumps up, and flatter the ground; let weeds sprout, they'll be easier to eliminate later on (stale seed bed).

VEGETABLE PATCH: Blanch chicory (frisée, escarole) and a few celery stems / Transplant lettuce seedlings and thin cabbage and lettuce sprouts / Divide thyme and mint / Harvest summer cabbage if the heads are vulnerable to bursting (they'll keep for a while in a cool place if roots are still attached).

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day to keep clearing free-growing plots and bring them back to shape / Start pruning hedges (thuya, boxwood, privet, silverberry, hornbeam, spindle) and topiary; you'll have more time to finish this in a few days / If you're looking to sow a new lawn (normally sowing is in September for lawn grass), now is the time to prepare the soil: spade, break clumps up, and flatter the ground; let weeds sprout, they'll be easier to eliminate later on (stale seed bed).

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for blanching chicory (frisée, escarole) and a few celery stems / Transplant lettuce seedlings and thin cabbage and lettuce sprouts / Divide thyme and mint / Harvest summer cabbage if the heads are vulnerable to bursting (they'll keep for a while in a cool place if roots are still attached).

Don't garden before 4:55 PM (16:55) – moon is at apogee at 11:54 AM

ORCHARD: Wrap up early pruning of apple and pear, as well as grapevine, actinidia, determinate raspberry / After the last harvests, prune apricot and peach trees because branches that have born fruit won't bear again / Defoliate apple and pear trees so that sunlight can hit the fruits.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Prune cucumber, bell pepper and chili, eggplant, squash and pumpkins, and remove suckers from tomato stems / Finish preparing the soil for your upcoming strawberry patch, end of August; amend with compost / If already prepared, you can start planting your new strawberry bushes (both determinate and indeterminate varieties).

2nd day to wrap up an early pruning of apple and pear, as well as grapevine, actinidia, determinate raspberry / After the last harvests, prune apricot and peach trees because branches that have born fruit won't bear again / Defoliate apple and pear trees so that sunlight can hit the fruits.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for pruning cucumber, bell pepper and chili, eggplant, squash and pumpkins, and removing suckers from tomato stems / Finish preparing the soil for your upcoming strawberry patch, end of August; amend with compost / If already prepared, you can start planting your new strawberry bushes (both determinate and indeterminate varieties).

ORCHARD: 3rd day to finish an early pruning of apple and pear, as well as grapevine, actinidia, determinate raspberry / After the last harvests, prune apricot and peach trees because branches that have born fruit won't bear again / Defoliate apple and pear trees so that sunlight can hit the fruits.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 3rd day for pruning cucumber, bell pepper and chili, eggplant, squash and pumpkins, and removing suckers from tomato stems / Finish preparing the soil for your upcoming strawberry patch, end of August; amend with compost / If already prepared, you can start planting your new strawberry bushes (both determinate and indeterminate varieties).

VEGETABLE PATCH: Now is a good time to harvest root vegetables; pull out long-storage potato with a spading fork if they're beginning to bloom (especially in mild regions) / Depending on your needs, harvest carrot, turnip, fall radish, celeriac and red beet: eat them soon to benefit from high levels of vitamins / When leaves have turned yellow, pull out colored onion and shallot; let them dry for a few days on the ground in full sun (to keep the garlic white, cover the heads), and then store them in a dry, well-ventilated luminous spot (staying in the dark will trigger sprouting) / Re-form ridges along your mashua; bring soil up to the top of the base without wounding tubers

Plant winter leek if not done yet / Thin all root crop sprouts.

LANDSCAPING: Divide bulb plants and rhizome perennials (grape hyacinth, crocus, tulip, cyclamen, daylily, gladiolus, iris, dahlia...).

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for harvesting root vegetables; pull out long-storage potato with a spading fork if they're beginning to bloom (especially in mild regions) / Depending on your needs, harvest carrot, turnip, fall radish, celeriac and red beet: eat them soon to benefit from high levels of vitamins / When leaves have turned yellow, pull out colored onion and shallot; let them dry for a few days on the ground in full sun (to keep the garlic white, cover the heads), and then store them in a dry, well-ventilated luminous spot (staying in the dark will trigger sprouting) / Re-form ridges along your mashua; bring soil up to the top of the base without wounding tubers

Plant winter leek if not done yet / Thin all root crop sprouts.

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for dividing bulb plants and rhizome perennials (grape hyacinth, crocus, tulip, cyclamen, daylily, gladiolus, iris, dahlia...).

Don't garden after 11:20 AM – lunar node at 4:22 PM (16:22)

VEGETABLE PATCH: 3rd day for harvesting root vegetables; pull out long-storage potato with a spading fork if they're beginning to bloom (especially in mild regions) / Depending on your needs, harvest carrot, turnip, fall radish, celeriac and red beet: eat them soon to benefit from high levels of vitamins / When leaves have turned yellow, pull out colored onion and shallot; let them dry for a few days on the ground in full sun (to keep the garlic white, cover the heads), and then store them in a dry, well-ventilated luminous spot (staying in the dark will trigger sprouting) / Re-form ridges along your mashua; bring soil up to the top of the base without wounding tubers

Plant winter leek if not done yet / Thin all root crop sprouts.

LANDSCAPING: 3rd day for dividing bulb plants and rhizome perennials (grape hyacinth, crocus, tulip, cyclamen, daylily, gladiolus, iris, dahlia...).

Before 3:48 PM (15:48), root day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: 4th day for harvesting root vegetables; pull out long-storage potato with a spading fork if they're beginning to bloom (especially in mild regions) / Depending on your needs, harvest carrot, turnip, fall radish, celeriac and red beet: eat them soon to benefit from high levels of vitamins / When leaves have turned yellow, pull out colored onion and shallot; let them dry for a few days on the ground in full sun (to keep the garlic white, cover the heads), and then store them in a dry, well-ventilated luminous spot (staying in the dark will trigger sprouting) / Re-form ridges along your mashua; bring soil up to the top of the base without wounding tubers

Plant winter leek if not done yet / Thin all root crop sprouts.

LANDSCAPING: 4th day for dividing bulb plants and rhizome perennials (grape hyacinth, crocus, tulip, cyclamen, daylily, gladiolus, iris, dahlia...).

After 3:48 PM (15:48), entering a flower day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: Transplant broccoli and cauliflower / In cooler climates, start planting strawberry bushes.

LANDSCAPING: Keep planting fall-blooming bulb flowers (colchicum, crocus, cyclamen, sternbergia) / Plant Madonna lily / Cut back rock rose after the blooming (remove about one-third from each stem so that the clump stays compact) / Finish pruning ornamental sage / It is still time to divide and transplant old clumps of Iris and daylily / Prepare cuttings from your lilac and pelargonium / Marcot fragrant climbing plants (honeysuckle, trumpet vine...) / Prune determinate climbing rose trees.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for transplanting broccoli and cauliflower / In cooler climates, start planting strawberry bushes.

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for planting fall-blooming bulb flowers (colchicum, crocus, cyclamen, sternbergia) / Plant Madonna lily / Cut back rock rose after the blooming (remove about one-third from each stem so that the clump stays compact) / Finish pruning ornamental sage / It is still time to divide and transplant old clumps of Iris and daylily / Prepare cuttings from your lilac and pelargonium / Marcot fragrant climbing plants (honeysuckle, trumpet vine...) / Prune determinate climbing rose trees.

Before 8:09 AM, flower day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: 3rd day for transplanting broccoli and cauliflower / In cooler climates, start planting strawberry bushes.

LANDSCAPING: 3rd day for planting fall-blooming bulb flowers (colchicum, crocus, cyclamen, sternbergia) / Plant Madonna lily / Cut back rock rose after the blooming (remove about one-third from each stem so that the clump stays compact) / Finish pruning ornamental sage / It is still time to divide and transplant old clumps of Iris and daylily / Prepare cuttings from your lilac and pelargonium / Marcot fragrant climbing plants (honeysuckle, trumpet vine...) / Prune determinate climbing rose trees.

After 8:09 AM, entering a leaf day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: Divide rhubarb / Thin the most recent lettuce sprouts. / Transplant lettuce from nursery pots to the ground / Blanch branch celery (this will take 2-3 weeks) and cardoon (3-4 weeks), keep blanching escarole and frisee chicory (10 days) / Harvest summer cabbage that might burst soon / Divide thyme and rosemary.

LANDSCAPING: Clear out overgrown areas: now is the best time

Continue pruning evergreens (thuja, boxwood, yew, spindle, privet...) and make cuttings from trimmings; run the trimmings through a shredder and spread them on the ground under hedge shrubs / Now is the best time to prepare cuttings from evergreen and ornamental foliage shrubs.

INDOORS: Repot indoor plants for which the pot is now too small; give other plants fertilizer.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for dividing rhubarb / Thin the most recent lettuce sprouts. / Transplant lettuce from nursery pots to the ground / Blanch branch celery (this will take 2-3 weeks) and cardoon (3-4 weeks), keep blanching escarole and frisee chicory (10 days) / Harvest summer cabbage that might burst soon / Divide thyme and rosemary.

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for clearing out overgrown areas: now is the best time

Continue pruning evergreens (thuja, boxwood, yew, spindle, privet...) and make cuttings from trimmings; run the trimmings through a shredder and spread them on the ground under hedge shrubs / Now is the best time to prepare cuttings from evergreen and ornamental foliage shrubs.

INDOORS: 2nd day for repotting indoor plants for which the pot is now too small; give other plants fertilizer.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Make the most of this last descending day for the moon to plant strawberry bushes.

ORCHARD: Continue to remove leaves around fruits on apple and pear to expose them to direct sunlight / Keep pruning peach and apricot: after the harvest is over, cut branches that bore fruit, retaining 2 replacement shoots at the base of each

Prepare soil where you aim to plant fruit trees in September.

VEGETABLE PATCH: Harvest fruit vegetables (tomato, eggplant, bell pepper, bean and shelling bean, squash, zucchini, pattypan...) if ripe / Also collect tomato seed for next year's sowing / Try sowing one last batch of early bean.

ORCHARD: Harvest all fruits (apple, pear, strawberry, raspberry, red currant, gooseberry, blackberry, melon, watermelon...) / Finish grafting fruit trees (cherry tree, plum, apple, pear tree) / Keep pinching cucurbitaceae crops, tomato, melon.

LANDSCAPING: Collect seed from annual and perennial flowers for sowing next year.

Before 12:50 PM, fruit & seed day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: Harvest fruit vegetables (tomato, eggplant, bell pepper, bean and shelling bean, squash, zucchini, pattypan...) if ripe / Also collect tomato seed for next year's sowing / Try sowing one last batch of early bean.

ORCHARD: Harvest all fruits (apple, pear, strawberry, raspberry, red currant, gooseberry, blackberry, melon, watermelon...) / Finish grafting fruit trees (cherry tree, plum, apple, pear tree) / Keep pinching cucurbitaceae crops, tomato, melon.

LANDSCAPING: Collect seed from annual and perennial flowers for sowing next year.

After 12:50 PM, entering a root day:

VEGETABLE PATCH: Sow monthly cycle radish, winter radish, spring onion (transplant these in October for a harvest at the end of winter or early in spring), swede, black salsify, turnip and winter carrot.

VEGETABLE PATCH: 2nd day for sowing monthly cycle radish, winter radish, spring onion (transplant these in October for a harvest at the end of winter or early in spring), swede, black salsify, turnip and winter carrot.

Don't garden after 10:50 AM – moon is at perigee at 3:54 PM (15:54)

LANDSCAPING: Sow flower perennials (in the growing bed for hardier ones, under shelter for frost-vulnerable ones) / Also sow biennials in a nursery / It's not to late to graft rose buds on dogrose (shield) to propagate your roses / Sow a mix of seeds to create a wildflower prairie: this is possible both in spring and in August-September.

LANDSCAPING: 2nd day for sowing flower perennials (in the growing bed for hardier ones, under shelter for frost-vulnerable ones) / Also sow biennials in a nursery / It's not to late to graft rose buds on dogrose (shield) to propagate your roses / Sow a mix of seeds to create a wildflower prairie: this is possible both in spring and in August-September.