Vegetable Beds
- Lift second earlies and some Salad Potatoes; lift some Main crop - to avoid slug damage
- Lift and dry Onions
- Thin brassica seedlings
- Protect marrows and squashes with a tile or glass underneath fruit
- Sow parsley
- Take cuttings of "woody-stemmed" herbs
- Watering, weeding - and check for pests/diseases
- potatoes - spray with Bordeaux Mixture if there is any sign of blight
- brassicas
- beans/peas
- clean out carrots showing signs of carrot fly
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Fruit
- Prune out old canes of summer-fruiting raspberries
- Plant new strawberry plants
- Dig up strawberry plants which have fruited three times
- For strawberries you are keeping, chop off leaves, stalks, unwanted runners, to about 1 inch from the top of the plant. Leave runners on healthy plants for propagation
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What's in Season?
- Broad Beans (spring sowing)
- French Beans
- Runner Beans
- Beetroot
- Green Broccoli
- Carrot
- Cabbage - Summer
- Carrots
- Cauliflower - Summer
- Courgettes
- Cucumber - outdoor
- Garlic
- Lettuce
- Marrow
- Onions - from seed
- Onions - from sets
- Spring Onions
- Peas
- Early Potatoes
- Radish
- Rocket
- Spinach
- Sweetcorn?
- Swiss Chard
- Turnips - early
- Brambles
- Raspberries
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