Fruit and veg job checklist - week 44

28 - 3 November 2013

It's time to...

Pick ripe apples and pears
Finish harvesting marrows, squashes, onions and potatoes
Sow broad beans and hardy peas
Plant out garlic cloves
Earth up leeks to cover and blanch their stems
Cut away fruited blackberry canes at soil level and tie in new ones
Plant new fruit trees and bushes
Tidy strawberry beds, cutting back old foliage and congested runners and removing weeds
Pot up a few roots of mint and bring under cover for winter pickings
Improve soil, digging over bare ground and forking in bulky, well-rotted manure