Today 
It's time to...
Finish planting out vegetable crops, including tomatoes, beans, courgettes and sweetcorn- Sow summer salads in gutters to grow quick crops
- Use netting to protect developing and ripening fruits from birds
- Tie in new shoots on blackberries, raspberries, loganberries and other cane fruits
- Water gooseberries and strawberries to encourage fruits to swell
- Plant cold-stored strawberry runners from mail-order fruit specialists for crops in just 60 days
- Thin out emerging raspberry canes if they're too congested, leaving new canes about 15cm apart
- Use soapy sprays at the first signs of greenfly and blackfly
- Thin out congested fruits on apples and plums - the remaining fruits will grow far larger if competition is reduced
- Sow now: lettuce, rocket, spinach, beetroot, dwarf French beans, runner beans, radish, carrots, calabrese, mini-cauliflowers, spinach, chicory, endive, kohl rabi, peas, spinach beet, swede and turnips
