Growing your own pumpkins this year? Garden experts say you must do this one job now to achieve an even bigger harvest

Picture of pumpkins growing in garden.

Whilst autumn seems somewhat far away even now in August, plants in the garden that have autumnal harvests will need some help even now with growth and maintenance.

Despite us already having more than enough August gardening jobs to get through, there are some important tasks to add to your list to ensure your autumn harvests are plentiful. Should you be growing pumpkins from seed this year, you'll no doubt have noticed that they, and other squash plants, are growing quickly and rather wildly.