The Pacific Northwest (PNW) region is known for its dry weather in August. I usually get tired of lugging my hose around watering the plants in August. However this year, while we had a very dry first half of August, we got a good soaking rain towards the end of August. The plants and I appreciated the natural watering.
I harvested a lot of veggies this month – beefsteak and roma tomatoes, bush and pole beans, carrots, radish pods. This year I got the most plums ever from my backyard trees. I was so thrilled.
The dahlias are the highlight among all flowers this month. And among all the dahlias I have, the Breakout variety is the most prolific with the biggest flowers.
This month I started sowing seeds for fall. I sowed coriander which I also started harvesting and beets. Fall is almost here, and I am ready for cooler weather.
I captured the highlights of the garden in August in the video below:
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