Garden Checklist

From The Fresno Bee, July 30, 2009 (edited):

Garden Checklist:
Relax. Beat the heat with a cool beverage while enjoying your garden from indoors.

Tasks: Do not allow vegetables to dry out.
Pruning: Divide iris every three to four years and save new rhizome growth to replant.
Fertilizing: Fertilize actively growing plants.
Planting: August heat can be truly formidable in the San Joaquin Valley; plant Naked Lady (Amaryllis belladonna) [called Naked Lady because the flowers emerge and bloom without any leaves; the leaves show up later; picture above]; from seed: basil, beans, beets, bok choy.
Things to ponder: Check lawn for diseases. They begin to proliferate now.