You'll find great one and two dollar Best Buys and Incredible Bargains throughout Friday Harbor Ace Hardware during Dollar Days in August. Early in the month, you can still plant seedlings of cole crops and sow beets, radishes, spinach, and turnips. Dig, divide and replant perennials such as bearded irises and Oriental poppies. Use a spade to cut small clumps in half and large clumps into quarters. Propagate pencil-size tip cuttings of camellia and rhododendron.
Bottom heat helps get rooting started.
Plant them now for fall and early winter color. For freshest flavor, harvest herbs in the morning just after the dew dries. If you don't plan to use them right away, dry the cut herbs on a screen in a shady place. Remove spent canes from cane fruits. On ever-bearing raspberries, remove only the upper half of each cane that produced fruit this year.