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- Clean out vegetable bins that are finished for the season and plant a cover crop
- Divide German irises and reset
- Move peonies if needed
- Deadhead August bloomers
- Purchase or prepare your garlic for re-planting
- Transplant shrubs to miss the heat but still take advantage of warm weather
- Install drought tolerant plants where water is challenging to access
- Harvest tomatoes before the weather gets cold
- Bring indoors any tropical plants you want for next year
- Grow Christmas cactus outside, in a shady spot for all of September but bring in before frost
- Shorten days on poinsettias now
- Amaryllis- time to get dormant
- Book irrigation winterization or blow outs
