Vegetable Beds
- Water Potatoes to fill out tubers
- Lift First Earlies - at least some
- Pinch top shoots of Broad Beans - water after flowers start
- Lots of water for French Beans; continue sowing
- Peas need lots of water if weather is dry; if first crop ready for
picking, pick regularly to encourage other pods
- Transplant Leek seedlings - either to beds vacated by brassicas of last year, or by new potatoes this year
- Pull soil off onions to let sun ripen them
- Transplant brassica seedlings from seedbed when ready
- Sow more lettuce, radish, spring onion, carrot, rocket, beetroot etc
- Sow parsley for winter and spring
- Pinch cucumber tips at 6-7 leaves, marrows at 2 feet long; keep soil moist and mulch (black plastic?); feed
- remove flower heads from mints and lemon balm so flavour goes to leaves
- STOP cutting asparagus in middle of month
- Weeding and watering
- Watch for early signs of any pests/diseases
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Fruit
- Protect strawberries - traditionally straw to stop mud splashing on
to fruits and causing rot, but black plastic with slits in it excellent
- Pick soft fruit as it comes ready
- Summer prune gooseberries and redcurrants - cut back new shoots to about 5 inches long, at a bud (except for shoots you want to keep for next year)
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What's in Season?
- Broad Beans (autumn sowing)
- Beetroot
- Carrot
- Lettuce
- Spring Onions
- Peas
- First pickings of early Potatoes?
- Radish
- Rocket
- Spinach
- Turnips
- Gooseberries
- Strawberries
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