Fruit & veg checklist

25 - 1 December 2013

It's time to...

Check fruits in store for signs of rot or deterioration
Plant new fruit bushes and cane fruits
Take hardwood cuttings from healthy fruit bushes, including currants and gooseberries
Winter prune fruit trees, including apples - but save plum pruning to summer
Cover broad beans and peas with cloches for winter protection
Lift and divide large clumps of rhubarb
Cut down Jerusalem artichokes then dig up and store tubers in buckets of dry compost
Prune sideshoots on gooseberries back to about 5cm
Pile earth up around the stems of Brussels sprouts to provide extra support