Today 
It's time to...
Shorten sideshoots growing from the framework of espalier, fan and cordon-trained fruit trees back to about five leaves from their base- Pick fresh herbs for drying
- Pick gooseberries, currants, strawberries and other fruits as they ripen
- Support heavily laden branches on plums, apples and pears with wooden props
- Water fruit to increase yields then cover the soil with a mulch, such as grass cuttings, to conserve the moisture
- Water strawberry runners, cutting them from the parent plant when well rooted
- Sow dwarf French beans for a late crop
- Prune out fruited canes of raspberries
- Spray gooseberries against sawfly attack and to prevent powdery mildew
- Sow vegetables such as endive, lettuces and salad leaves, rocket, beetroot, radishes, spring cabbages, kohl rabi, Swiss chard, winter spinach, Oriental greens, chicory
