Fruit and veg job checklist - week 37

9 - 15 September 2013

It's time to...

Finish summer pruning trained forms of apple and pear trees
Harvest apples, pears, plums and gages as they ripen
Save seeds from good varieties of beans, herbs and tomatoes that you've enjoyed this year
Pot up herbs to use in winter
Prune out fruited blackberry stems and tie in new shoots to supports
Take hardwood cuttings from fruit bushes
Harvest haricot beans
Sow broad beans and hardy peas
Plant out garlic in mild areas, or start cloves in pots to transplant later
Vegetables to sow now include spring cabbages, Japanese onions, turnips for green tops, winter lettuces, spinach, endive, corn salad, land cress and baby salad leaves