Fruit and veg job checklist - week 28

2 - 8 July 2012

It's time to...

Spray potatoes and outdoor tomatoes with Bordeaux mixture or similar to prevent blight
Thin heavy crops of apples, pears and plums
Tie in new raspberry canes to support wires
Cover brassicas with fine netting to prevent cabbage white butterflies laying their eggs on the leaves
Keep sowing parsley to ensure a continuous supply
Cut down unwanted raspberry canes at soil level
Sow cabbages to pick as spring greens
Hoe a little fertiliser into the soil between rows of onions as you weed
Peg down strawberry runners into pots of soil to root new plants. Only ever propagate from healthy, disease-free stock. After fruiting, trim off all strawberry foliage with shears
Sow seeds of vegetables now, including beetroot, cabbages, endive, kohl rabi, lettuce, radish, rocket, spinach, swede and turnips