Hey there, I'm so glad you tuned in today. August is actually one of my favorite months of the year,

but more so for personal reasons. Our family has three birthdays, and my husband and I celebrate our

anniversary, which this year was 20 years. So there's a lot of celebrating in my family in August,

which is one of the reasons I love it so much.

But on the gardening front, not so much. You may be able to relate. August is the time where

our gardens don't look that great. Depending on where you're located, you may be in the thick of harvesting.

Most of my harvest takes place in July,

so there's still quite a bit of harvesting that happens in August, but the biggest part has

already passed. So now I'm looking out in my garden and I see a bunch of really overgrown

disease, pest-infested plants, a far cry from what I had planned on when I first

started my garden at the beginning of the year. And one thing that I always have to grapple with,

especially this time of year, is when do I take out a summer plant? Because sometimes it's not

all that obvious. Maybe it's still producing

a little bit. Maybe it's not that diseased. Maybe I don't really have anything that would go in its

place right yet. So should I just leave it there? Or maybe I just don't want to get in my garden in the heat.

All of those things cross my mind

in one way or another, and I have a feeling that maybe you've been in the same boat as well.

So today on the podcast, we're going to talk about when to take out summer plants. Now, this is

going to be an individual decision for you, your garden, and for the particular plant you might be thinking about.

But I just wanted to give you an idea of the thought process that I go through when I decide

whether to let a plant stay or to rip it out. We're going to talk about overall garden plans and

considerations. And then a little bit later in the episode, we're going to go into the

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