Garden Notes: August 2025

  Rainfall

• 3rd: 0.12"
• 4th: 1.53"
• 5th: 0.58"
• 6th: 0.23"
• 11th: 0.69"
• 12th: 0.98"
• 13th: 0.07"
• 14th: 0.25"
• 15th: 0.38"
• 16th: 0.97"
• 20th: 0.03"
• 28th: 0.17"
• 21st: 0.5"
• 22nd: 0.02"
• 23rd: 0.03"
• 24th: 0.32"
• 25th: 0.01"
• Total so far: 6.88 inches

 Temperature

• range of nighttime lows: 55 to 72°F (13 to 22.2°C)
• range of daytime highs: 65 to 92°F (18.3 to 33.3°C)

Weather Notes

• The first was our hottest day, but then rain came and cooled things off for the rest of the month. It was humid, though, so it still felt pretty warm. 
• It was nice to have only one super hot month this year instead of our usual two.

Garden Notes

• The summer glut of produce to pick and preserve has wound down. 
• Fall planting has started.
• As has seed collecting.
• After each bed is harvested and seeds collected, I'll clean it up and tuck it in for winter.

Planted

• daikons
• lettuce
• turnips

Harvested

• okra
• lambs quarter
• slicing tomatoes
• cherry tomatoes
• pears
• apples
• beets
• parsley
• oregano
• basil
• rosemary
• buckwheat
• asparagus
• elderberries
• bell peppers
• walking onions
• muscadines

Preserved

• pear sauce, canned
• tomato sauce, canned
• pear vinegar
• basil, dehydrated
• parsley, dehydrated
• elderberries, frozen
• muscadines, frozen

Photos

Okra, Clemson and Jing

Sweet basil

Pears

Pear vinegar

Odd tomato

Late summer asparagus

Muscadine grapes

1st green bean of the season. I don't know why they're so late!

Green bell peppers

Green peppers, sweet potato vines, and cherry tomatoes in the African keyhole garden

If you look closely at the above photo you can probably spot
the stained glass dragonfly. It was made by our neighbor.

So, August has been a transition month in good ways, from too hot to tolerably hot, from too dry to plentiful rain, and from busy harvest to winding down the garden. How about you? What's your August been like?

Garden Notes: August 2025 © August 2025

by Leigh at https://www.5acresandadream.com