What to plant in August in Czechia
6 vegetables, fruits and herbs to sow or plant in August in Czechia, for the climate around Central Bohemia, Czech Republic.
Climate: A cold continental climate with hard winter frosts down to about -11 °C, a frost-free season roughly from late May to September, warm summers up to about 40 °C, and fairly even rainfall year-round, peaking in June to August.
Vegetables
Spinach Spinacia oleracea
Tolerates cold springs and autumn frosts, so it can be sown twice a year.
Harvest: 40–50 daysEasyIn potsCare guide →
Lettuce Lactuca sativa
Quick-growing and cool-season friendly, and it can be succession-sown from spring to early autumn.
Harvest: 45–60 daysEasyIn potsCare guide →
Radish Raphanus sativus
Very fast and frost-tolerant, it fits the short gaps between spring and autumn.
Harvest: 25–35 daysEasyIn pots
Fruits
Strawberry Fragaria × ananassa
Fully hardy and enjoys the cool, moist summers, and it grows well in a planter.
Harvest: 1 year (first full crop the second summer)EasyIn potsCare guide →
Herbs
Dill Anethum graveolens
Quick-growing and happy in the long warm summer days, and it can be sown repeatedly.
Harvest: 40–60 daysEasyIn pots
Chives Allium schoenoprasum
Fully frost-hardy perennial that comes back each spring and needs little care.
Harvest: 60–75 daysEasyIn potsCare guide →