Fruit and veg job checklist - week 33

12 - 18 August 2013

It's time to...

Pick plums as they ripen
Ease onions from the soil with a fork to prepare them for harvesting
Finish pruning trained forms of apple trees like cordons, espaliers and fans
Water crops regularly, especially during hot weather
Lift marrows into the sunshine and rest them on bricks to ripen
Identify plants showing symptoms of potato blight, and immediately remove affected leaves and stems
Order garlic bulbs and onion sets for autumn planting
Prune out fruited canes on summer-cropping raspberries
Net blackberries and autumn-fruiting raspberries
Veg to sow now include swedes, spring cabbages, beetroot for leaves, winter lettuces, radishes, coriander, Japanese onions