Jobs to do in the Vegetable garden in August

– Water Sweetcorn plants often to help them grow and get big cobs – also feed with tomato feed.
– Continue to feed tomato plants with a tomato food and remove the lower leaves to help them with air circulation.
– Cut back your herbs to encourage a new flush of tasty leaves that you can harvest before the frost. dry or freeze herbs to use in the kitchen later on.
Pinch out the tips of the runner bean plants to encourage side shoots to grow.
Limit the fruit on squash plants to three – but make sure they are established before pinching out.
Start harvesting potatoes as leaves start dying and turning yellow.