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Fruit & Veg checklist

Fruit and Veg checklist

23 - 29 June 2008

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Use this page as a checklist for this week's most important tasks.

It's printer friendly so you could pin it up in your garden shed.

It's time to...

It's time to...
  • Hang old CDs among crops and from fruit trees to scare away birds
  • Water beans and sweet peas as they start to flower
  • Give extra water to ripening soft fruits such as raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries and currants
  • Feed tomatoes and crops in growing bags
  • Harvest early potatoes, carrots and salad crops
  • Prune the sideshoots of gooseberry bushes back to just five leaves
  • Cut out congested raspberry canes at soil level, or those popping up in paths
  • Feed all crops with a liquid fertiliser
  • Herbs to sow now include coriander and parsley
  • Veg to sow now includes lettuce and salad leaves, rocket, carrots, beetroot, calabrese, cauliflower, spinach, chicory

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