Fruit and veg job checklist - week 32

5 - 11 August 2013

It's time to...

Check sweetcorn to see if it's ripe and ready to pick. This is when the tassels start to go brown
Pick beans and water crops regularly
Lift onions once their tops die down
Pick plums as they ripen
Use netting to protect blackberries, autumn raspberries and other berries from birds
Cut out fruited canes of raspberries
Pile up the earth around trench varieties of celery for whiter stems
Pick 'Discovery' and other early ripening apples
Prune blackcurrants after fruiting, removing about a quarter of the oldest stems
Transplant well-rooted strawberry runners