Fruit and veg job checklist - week 40

• 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

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