1Vegetables – get along to RHS Gardens Harlow Carr today or tomorrow to the RHS Grow Your Own Weekend and talk to the experts about making your garden more productive. Sow some spring cabbages in a seed bed now for planting out in September. Sow extra rows of dwarf French beans and peas now for a late summer and autumn harvest. Do not let glasshouse grown vine tomatoes produce more than four or five trusses and remove some of the older bottom leaves to allow light and air to circulate better.
2 Fruit – for those of you lucky enough to have a peach tree, now is a good time to prune it. Remove badly positioned new shoots and cut back others to two to three leaves to help develop fruiting spurs for next year. Provide support for the new canes of autumn fruiting raspberries. Remove runners from strawberries unless you want them for new plants and clean up old and damaged foliage to help reduce the incidence of botrytis (Grey Mould).
