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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Zone by Zone: What To Plant in August

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

August is typically associated with the end of summer and the upcoming harvest season. But we firmly believe that August is actually the perfect month to sneak in one last round of planting before first frost sets in and the cold weather arrives for good. Learn More: https://www.epicgardening.com/what-to-plant-in-august/ Keep Growing, Kevin Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Buy the Epic Soil Starter Organic Fertilizer! How do you super-charge your soil with good, inexpensive organic matter? That was the question I sought to answer when I designed this custom-mixed fertilizer with my friends over at Garden Maker Naturals. It's designed to take your ordinary raised bed garden soil and give it enough organic matter to kick-start your growing season. Order Your Epic Soil Starter Here   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

0:04.8

Podcast. I always like to throw a little song in there every now and then to appease

0:10.8

my karaoke nature as a half Filipino person. We all love our karaoke.

0:16.2

I know if you're Filipino out there, you know what I'm talking about.

0:19.0

All right, today we're going to talk about what's a plant in August? It's kind of a weird month. It's associated with the end of summer and

0:26.3

the upcoming harvest season. We're trying to actually pull a lot of stuff out of the garden. However,

0:32.2

I'm going to go through what to plant in August, starting with zone 3

0:36.8

and going all the way to zone 10. Now there's a lot of stuff you can plant in August in all

0:42.3

these zones, but I'm going to select one particular plant that's kind of like a feature plant for each

0:47.3

for each zone

0:49.1

Because it would be a very long episode if I was to talk about every single thing you could plan in each zone, right?

0:53.6

So let's start with our friends in zone three.

0:56.2

Covers the central parts of the border with Canada if you're in the United States.

1:00.0

I would get a last round of spinach in. Spinich is a cold tolerant plant.

1:04.0

It can actually overwinter if it's well established

1:07.8

and it's been growing under cover.

1:10.2

So plant, plant spinach.

1:11.8

It's a fantastic, fantastic plant and I think most of us listening have grown it before and

1:16.2

so then you would know the care for it.

1:18.6

So let's move on to zone four.

1:21.0

Zone four, northern Rockies, the far northeast northeast kind of like the weather in

1:24.3

Minneapolis you couldn't try corn salad corn salad is a really delicious delicious

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