Today 
It's time to...
Make a cross-cut in cabbage stems when harvesting to encourage a further crop- Sow broad beans for early crops next May and June
- Put cloches over tender herbs like basil and coriander
- Pot up mint, chives and parsley to keep on a bright window sill
- Sow green manure crops such as field beans and grazing rye
- Plant garlic and autumn onion sets
- Cover endive to blanch the leaves
- Dig up and pot up roots of chicory for winter forcing
- Pick apples and pears before the wind blows them down
- Finish pruning blackberries and autumn-fruiting raspberries
