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)
- 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.
- 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
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| Okra, Clemson and Jing |
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| Sweet basil |
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| Pears |
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| Pear vinegar |
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| Odd tomato |
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| Late summer asparagus |
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| Muscadine grapes |
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| 1st green bean of the season. I don’t know why they’re so late! |
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| Green bell peppers |
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| Green peppers, sweet potato vines, and cherry tomatoes in the African keyhole garden |
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| 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?
Source: https://www.5acresandadream.com/2025/08/garden-notes-august-2025.html
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