August 2025

Each month we share growing information courtesy of the WVU Extension and also other information we find helpful, like growing by the moon. This information is geared especially toward our audience here in the Mid-Ohio Valley.

Moon Phase	Date	Garden Tasks
Fist Quarter Moon 🌓	Friday, August 1st	Plant or Harvest Aboveground Crops
Full Moon 🌕	Saturday, August 9th	Plant Root Crops
Last Quarter Moon🌗	Saturday, August 16th	Barren Time, Turn Compost & Work Soil
New Moon🌑	Saturday, August 23rd	Plant Seeds and Transplants

Week 31

August 1st to August 3rd

• Seed Beans and Peas for a Fall Crop.

• Plant Fall Cabbage

Week 32

August 4th to August 10th

• Plant napa Chinese cabbage

• Seed spinach

• Seed fall carrots

• Seed lettuce for fall crop

• Watch for downy mildew

• Seed mustard greens and radishes

• Seed fall cucumbers

• Control broadleaf lawn weeds

• Take note of new varieties

• Seed bush beans

• Turn compost

• Harvest okra pods every other day

Week 33

August 11th to August 17th

• Seed rutabagas

• Seed Asian greens

• Watch for powdery mildew on pumpkins and winter squash

• Seed radishes and leeks

• Plant strawberries

• Install sod

• Seed fall herbs

• Seed bok choy

Week 34

August 18th to August 24th

• Seed winter sprouting broccoli

• Seed turnips

• Plant collards

• Seed lawn

• Seed spinach

• Apply nitrogen to strawberries

• Seed arugula

Week 35

August 25th to August 31st

• Seed Ethiopian kale as replacement for arugula

• Seed fall green bunching onions

• Seed kale and kohlrabi

• Turn compost