Even though the summer garden is past its peak and starting to slow down in August, there are still quite a few maintenance jobs to keep on top of. Neglecting to do them can sabotage your late-season display, leaving you with a bare fall landscape.
To prioritize what's left on my summer gardening checklist, I turned to a gardening pro. She said there's one gardening job everyone forgets to do in August that can make a huge difference come September: removing seed heads. Removing them redirects the plant's energy into producing new blooms, and August is really the last reliable window to do this before temperatures are too cool and plants start to enter dormancy.
