- Pay close attention to your garden’s water needs, especially if it doesn’t rain for multiple days. Water evenly and deeply, avoiding foliage and focusing on soil level.
- Consider covering less heat-tolerant plants with a row cover or canopy to protect them from direct sun and heat.
- Prune and mulch plants to allow them to conserve energy and to keep soil moist.
- Check your container plants daily, making sure they are well watered and adding a liquid fertilizer to the water every week or so.
- Be on the lookout for pests and diseases on your plants.
- Completely remove cool weather crops and add compost to soil, or intercrop with warm weather crops and remove cool weather crops over time.
- Continue to harvest warm weather crops. Eat fresh, dry, freeze or can, or donate to organizations serving community food needs.
- Continually deadhead herbs and leafy greens by snipping off floret tops to avoid bolting, which can make the plant bitter to taste (unless you want to collect seeds or encourage reseeding for next year’s crop).
- Plan for fall planting and extending the growing season into the winter months.
- For fall crops, continue to both direct sow and start from seed indoors.
- Direct sow cooler weather herbs: cilantro, chervil, chives, dill, lovage and thyme.
- Order garlic, onions and shallots for fall.