Gardener's lunar calendar for August. Gardener's lunar calendar for August Gardening work, plant care activities

• What to do. Sow and plant plants whose growth and maturation periods still allow this. Sow watercress, spinach, and sorrel to obtain late greens.
• What not to do. Cut down and plant trees, trim dry branches, propagate plants by roots. Dig up flower bulbs and root vegetables. Provide liquid feeding.

August 1, Tuesday, August 2, Wednesday, August 3, Thursday. Moon in Sagittarius (until 07:12 August 4) 2nd phase.

• What to do. Harvest fruits and berries for quick consumption. Plant winter grain crops that can be used as green manure. Treat storage areas for vegetables. Fertilize the soil, collect plant residues for greenhouses and greenhouses.
• What not to do. Hill up vegetables and weed - the weeds may grow stronger than before.
• Definitely do it. Collect flowers and leaves of medicinal plants, as well as seeds and root vegetables.

August 4 from 07:12, Friday, August 5, Saturday, August 6, Sunday. Moon in Capricorn (until 15:17 on August 7) ​​2nd phase.

• What to do. Collect and dry herbs. Sow early ripening Chinese cabbage, spinach, and sorrel in greenhouses or open ground for autumn use. Divide and replant perennials, in particular peonies and irises. Plant and replant plants that overwinter in open ground.
• What not to do. Harvest root crops and store them for long-term storage.

Full moon. August 7 from 15:17, Monday (at 21:12, pm at 21:21). Moon in Aquarius 3rd phase.

• What to do. Engage in soil cultivation: cleaning, loosening, mulching, liming, fertilizing.
• What not to do. Chop the forest for firewood, plant, trim trees and bushes. Store and preserve the harvest.

• What to do. Treat fruit trees and shrubs with drugs against diseases and pests. Collect herbs for drying. Trim, pinch and shoot plants.
• What not to do. Sow, plant, water and feed vegetable crops.
• Definitely do it. On dry, warm summer days, it is necessary to insulate the house. Mineral wool or polystyrene foam is a good thermal insulation material.

August 9, Wednesday, August 10, Thursday, August 11, Friday. Moon in Pisces (until 08:23 August 11) 3rd phase.

• What to do. Water and feed peppers, pumpkins, zucchini, tomatoes, squash, cabbage, etc. You can dry, freeze fruits, make juices and wines. Begin preparing containers and storage facilities for the autumn and winter harvest of apples and pears.
• What not to do. Store fruits for long-term storage.

August 11, Friday, August 12, Saturday, August 13, Sunday. Moon in Aries (until 13:41 on August 13) 3rd phase.

• What to do. Remove yellow and dry leaves from shoots and inflorescences on vegetable crops. Apply fertilizer to late cabbage. Remove and dry the garlic sets and onions grown from the sets. Pinch the Brussels sprouts and squash vines. Remove fruit-bearing raspberry shoots and strawberry tendrils.
• What not to do. Replant and propagate indoor flowers.

August 13, Sunday, August 14, Monday, August 15, Tuesday (4 hours 04:16). Moon in Taurus (until 17:07 on August 15) 3-4 phase.

• What to do. Harvest for long-term storage, seeds and root crops for testes. Clear strawberry plantations of dry and yellow leaves, thin out and hill up. Water and feed vegetable crops. Continue the fight against weeds and garden pests.
• What not to do. Chopping trees for firewood.
• Definitely do it. Water and feed clematis, cut off dried stems and tie up powerful shoots.

August 15, Tuesday (4 hours 04:16) August 16, Wednesday, August 17, Thursday. Moon in Gemini (until 19:14 on August 17) 4th phase.

August 17, Thursday August 18, Friday August 19, Saturday. Moon in Cancer (until 20:56 August 19) 4th phase.

• What to do. Collect and process the harvest of vegetable and berry and fruit crops. Collect the onion (provided that the feather has begun to turn yellow). Harvest winter garlic. Loosen, dig up the soil, continue the fight against garden pests.
• What not to do. Carry out any work with plants.

• What to do. Carry out formative and rejuvenating pruning of currants and gooseberries. Remove diseased and unproductive trees and shrubs. Harvest fruits and vegetables for drying and canning. Apply mineral fertilizers to the soil.
• What not to do. Plant any plants, especially fruit and berry crops. Replant garden crops and apply artificial fertilizers.

• What to do. Continue preparing containers and places for storing the harvest of autumn and winter varieties of apples and pears. Clean up the area.
• What not to do. Replant garden crops and house flowers, apply artificial fertilizers. Perform any other manipulations with plants: trim, propagate, pinch, etc.

• What to do. Collect and process berries and cucumbers, water the pepper beds, and hill up the cabbage. Sow, plant and plant drought-tolerant plants. Weed the beds and prepare compost.
• What not to do. Apply artificial fertilizers, replant garden crops.

• What to do. Collect vegetables and berries for quick consumption. Feed shrubs and strawberries with organic fertilizers. Continue preparing planting holes for future planting of fruit trees and berry bushes.
• What not to do. Plant seeds, plant lettuce, collect fruits, store them and pack canned food.

August 24, Thursday, August 25, Friday, August 26, Saturday. Moon in Libra (until 11:51 August 26) 1st phase.

• What to do. Collect some potatoes for quick consumption. Plant seedlings of currant bushes in pre-prepared holes.
• What not to do. Water your plants: This can cause root rot.

August 26, Saturday, August 27, Sunday, August 28, Monday. Moon in Scorpio (until 22:46 August 28) 1st phase.

• What to do. Fill greenhouses and greenhouses with organic residues. Dig up the soil and form ridges. Spread compost under trees and shrubs. Plant cloves or sets of winter garlic and bulbous plants. Continue salting and canning the crop.
• What not to do. Trim dry branches from trees and bushes, plant trees, propagate plants by roots. Harvest, dig up flower bulbs and root vegetables.
• Definitely do it. Plant tulip bulbs.

August 29, Tuesday (2 hours 11:14), August 30, Wednesday, August 31, Thursday. Moon in Sagittarius (until 11:17 August 31) phase 1-2.

• What to do. Collect and process the harvest of peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and pumpkins. Loose the cabbage beds and hill up the cabbage. Spray the branches of berry bushes against pests.
• What not to do

• What to do. Plant winter sowing of vegetable crops and annual flowers. Dig up the soil in the tree trunks of fruit trees and berry bushes.
• What not to do. Use the harvest collected on this day for long-term storage.
• Definitely do it. Harvest the onions, otherwise the bulbs will begin to rot.

Attention! Gardener's calendar for August 2017 designed for moderate climates.

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To clarify the time for carrying out the necessary work, we ask you to take into account the geographical features of the region in which you live

Favorable days. August 2017:

• from August 1 to August 3, 2017 – waning moon;
• from August 5 to August 11, 2017 – waxing Moon;
• from August 13 to 19, 2017 – waxing Moon;
• from August 21 to August 26, 2017 – waning Moon;
• from August 28 to August 31, 2017 – waning moon.

During the days of the new waxing moon, it is a good time to start new things. You can make plans for the future and make important decisions. This time is favorable for starting to lose weight with the help of a diet, and you can also start fighting bad habits.

Unfavorable days. August 2017:

• August 7, 2017 – Full Moon;
• August 15, 2017 – Last quarter;
• August 21, 2017 – New Moon;
• August 29, 2017 – First quarter.

August will come and establish its own rules.

The main task of the gardener in August is to stop the growth of the current year's shoots in length. The formation of the apical bud and ripening of the shoots will better prepare the plant for winter. To stop the growth processes of the shoots, the following measures are carried out: remove the mulch from the tree trunk circle, apply simple potassium and phosphorus fertilizers to the zone of the active root system, pinch the tops of young growing shoots and reduce watering. Do not apply nitrogen fertilizer as this may cause a second wave of shoot growth.
Upon completion of the raspberry harvest, fruit-bearing and damaged branches are cut out. Young shoots that have grown over the summer should be shortened and the growth tips cut off - this will give their wood the opportunity to mature and prepare for the upcoming cold weather.
Vegetables also need our care in August - loosening and fertilizing. Potato tops should be mowed 2 weeks before you plan to start “digging potatoes” - the tubers will ripen better.
August is the time for abundant fruiting of tomatoes and peppers. At this time, the tops of the tomatoes need to be removed, leaving a couple of leaves above the top brush. This will speed up the ripening of the set fruits.
When caring for flowers in August, the first priority is rejuvenating division and replanting of perennials. Getting ready to plant bulbous flowers. Beds and ridges are made for them in advance. On clay soils, add sand and compost for digging. If necessary, lime the soil.

Folk signs about the weather in August:
The August night is long, the water is cold...
August is skipping towards autumn.
In August, winter begins to fight summer.

Based on one interesting folk sign, together with you we will try to compose one, one of the main tasks of which is to help plan the work of the upcoming 2019 gardening season.

Thematic tables-selections from the main, universal gardener calendar:

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ATTENTION! Our gardener's lunar calendar is kept by Moscow time. (The calendar can be used throughout Russia, taking into account the difference with local time *)

Moon calendar

Gardening work, plant care activities

August is the height of vegetable season. The lion's share of time is spent collecting and processing the crop. There is not always time left to look at the plants: maybe they are missing something.

As always, we will help you Moon calendar gardeners and gardeners. It describes in detail what work is best to do on any day in August.

Moon phases in August 2018

• The moon is waxing - from August 1 to August 6
• Full Moon - August 7
• The moon is waning - from August 8 to August 20
• New Moon - August 21
• The moon is waxing again - from August 22 to 31

Favorable landing days in August 2018

Unfavorable days for sowing seeds.

Favorable days in August 2018 for planting seedlings, cuttings and grafting

Attention! The table shows the most favorable There are days for planting and sowing seeds, but this does not mean at all that you cannot plant on other days. You should not plant anything just in prohibited days.

The table shows the phases of the Moon, its position in the signs of the Zodiac and recommended work for gardeners - gardeners - flower growers for each day of the month.

In August, fruit trees lay down next year's harvest. At this time they need feeding with phosphorus and potassium. So, in mid-August, stone fruit trees are fed as follows. For cherries, apricots, plums - 2 tbsp. spoons of double superphosphate, 1 tbsp. spoon of potassium sulfate in a bucket of water. Under each tree, along the projection of the crown, 4 buckets of this solution are poured and a liter jar of ash is added over the damp soil.

August is the height of vegetable season. The lion's share of time is spent collecting and processing the crop. There is not always time left to look at the plants: maybe they are missing something.

Malina fed with double superphosphate (1 tbsp) + 1 tbsp. a spoonful of potassium sulfate, diluted in 10 liters of water, and water 1 liter at the root of each bush or per 1 linear meter of strip planting.

Under the apple tree pears can be fertilized with autumn complex fertilizer. An effective fertilizer is AVA fertilizer. It is applied once every three years into a groove along the perimeter of the crown: 3 tbsp. spoons for apple trees, 2.5 tbsp. spoons for pears.

Apply dry to a depth of 5-8 cm and sprinkle with earth on top. It is absorbed gradually over three years, is not carried away by water, and is not buried in the soil.

In early August, sow mustard, preferably white, under the pear and apple trees. After 1.5-2 months it can be buried in the ground. This is a good organic fertilizer; in addition, mustard will rid the soil of diseases and pests.

In August, cucumbers no longer look fresh: the leaves have become coarser and lighter in color. When harvesting, we increasingly find irregularly shaped fruits (“hooks”, “carrots”, “pears”).

The cucumbers don't have enough nutrition to produce a quality harvest, so let's feed them. For 10 liters of water, take half a liter of organic infusion (mullein or green grass) and a teaspoon of urea and potassium sulfate.

Another option is also possible - Art. spoon of complex fertilizer. It’s also a good idea to rejuvenate cucumber plants by foliar feeding with urea: a teaspoon of fertilizer per 5 liters of water. We wet the leaves both below and above. We will repeat the procedure in ten days. The leaves should turn dark green after such procedures.

We carefully monitor the cabbage. Pests can cause great harm to the quality of its heads of cabbage. Against a complex of gnawing pests, we treat late varieties with biological insecticides (lepidocide) every 7-8 days.

We exclude nitrogen from fertilizing in August so as not to contribute to the accumulation of nitrates. But potassium is only beneficial for cabbage at this time (wood ash or potassium magnesia, potassium sulfate).

Potatoes planted in July, which are beginning to increase their vegetative mass, can be fed with an infusion of green grass (0.5 liters per bucket of water).

The next feeding is during the budding period. This can be wood ash (a glass per 2 linear meters of potato row), scattered on the moist soil of the rows. Then the soil is loosened, covering the ash, and watered.

The second feeding option is Art. spoon of complex “potato” fertilizer per square meter. m (fertika, buyskoe). Excess nitrogen threatens fungal diseases, common scab and, of course, crop failure.

Bushes of early peppers and eggplants can be fed with an organic infusion (green grass, mullein - 0.5 liters per 10 liters of water) or complex fertilizer (a tablespoon per bucket of water, consumption - for 10 plants) so that the fruits do not become smaller.

Late-sown carrots and beets (for winter storage) can be fed with potassium (a tablespoon of potassium sulfate per 10 liters of water, consumption per sq. m).