Here’s your August gardening guide for North America’s USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3-10. If you don’t know what USDA Plant Hardiness Zone you live in, check the map here to find out. We’ve left off zones 1–2 (far-north Alaska) and zones 11–13 (small section of the Florida Keys, the Pacific coast between L.A. and Mexico, and Hawaii) since zones 3–10 cover 99 percent or more of the gardeners in the U.S.

Zone 3

Plant new fall bulbs so they develop roots before the ground freezes.

• Harvest corn, potatoes, apples, cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, and strawberries before a killing frost.

• If tomato vines are covered with green fruit, pull up whole plants and hang them in a basement or garage until fruits ripen.

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Zone 4

On the first of the month, plant spinach for overwintering.

• Use up any remaining compost in your bins to make room for the leaves you’ll soon add.

• Dig up and store tender bulbs and tubers, such as cannas and dahlias.

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Zone 6

• Get fall compost cooking with the last of your grass clippings, spent plants, and leaves.

• As garden beds empty, sow quick-growing cover crops like winter rye.

• Sow spinach midmonth for spring harvest.

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Zone 8

• Plant transplants of broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale; surround them with a thick mulch to cool the soil.

• Direct-seed spinach, lettuce, beets, carrots, parsley, turnips, and kohlrabi.

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Zone 10

• Prune poinsettias for holiday bloom.

• As grasshopper numbers die down, plant tuberoses (Polianthes tuberosa), gloriosa lilies, amaryllis, and other subtropical bulbs and rhizomes.

• Plant okra. It’s your last chance of the season.

• Seed cucurbits and herbs, and set out transplants oftomatoes, peppers, and onions.

• Repair or replace drip irrigation lines.

• Work in soil amendments, including compost, bonemeal, and greensand.

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Article source: Rodales Organic Life
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