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Use twigs pushed into the ground to support tall-growing peas, or use short canes and stringFeed strawberries with a high potash feed, such as tomato fertiliserSow flowering companions in your veg plot, such as tagetes and poached egg plants

Fit automatic openers to greenhouse vents to encourage good air circulationPlant tomatoes in growing bags or large pots, training them on to canes or wires for supportBring pots of strawberries into the greenhouse to produce early flowers and fruit

Plant tagetes with your tomatoes, to act as companion flowers which deter pests Scoop out floating pond weed and algae from poolsHoe bare soil and hand weed beds weekly to prevent weeds from establishing and setting seedPut soft tops on the tips

Sow seeds of dwarf beans in rows and climbing ones alongside canesPlant out crops being raised in pots under glass, such as marrows, courgettes and tomatoesCover soft fruits with netting to prevent birds eating themSow a few seeds of salad leaves

greenhouse tomatoes to deter whiteflySet up a 'watering bench' using capillary matting to look after pot plantsSow seeds of Christmas cherry (solanum) to grow as winter pot plantsHang yellow sticky traps in the greenhouse to help control whitefly Thin out

Hang old CDs among crops and from fruit trees to scare away birdsWater beans and sweet peas as they start to flowerGive extra water to ripening soft fruits such as raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries and currantsFeed tomatoes and crops

Damp down the floor every morning and open ventsWater tomatoes regularly to prevent fruits splittingSow Primula malacoides and P. obconica for flowering pot plants next springHang yellow sticky traps in the greenhouse to help control whitefly

Place poinsettias in the total dark for 14 hours a day to encourage colourful bracts to form, moving into full light for the rest of the dayWater indoor cyclamen after their summer rest to encourage new growthPlant lachenalia and veltheimia bulbsPick off the lower

', 'Laxton's Epicure' and 'George Cave'Sow parsley in pots for winter and spring useThin out heavy crops of plums to prevent branches snappingHang wasp traps in fruit treesPinch out the tops of outdoor tomatoes, as further flowers are unlikely to produce ripe

Prune out fruited canes on summer-cropping raspberriesPinch out tops of main shoots on outdoor tomato plantsPrune trained forms of fruit treesPick sweetcorn cobsContinue picking plums and freeze any surplus right awayLift and store onions