Margaret Roach thinks August - not April - is the cruelest month. At least in the garden.

The writer behind the blog A Way to Garden writes about the garden chores of August this week, and she sounds tired already.

"Hazy, hot and humid ... and plum tuckered out. But give up we must not," she writes.

At the top of her list of chores are weeding and watering.

Whatever you do, don't let those weeds go to seed or they will multiply like, well, weeds, she advises. Make a pass through each bed each week if for no other reason that the weeds steal the moisture that is in short supply in August.

Speaking of moisture. Roach advises us not to bother watering the lawn. It will bounce back. Focus on new plantings.

That's just the beginning of her list of August chores. If you have the energy, read more on A Way to Garden.

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