TO DO LIST

Make last sowings of dwarf French beans, carrots and baby beetroot using early varieties, since these are the fastest to produce a useable crop.

Prune soft fruit bushes and summer-fruiting raspberry canes when they finally finish cropping.

Feed roses again – a dose of rose food after the second flush of flowers gives plants a boost that helps the next flush of blooms..

Watch for your first outdoor tomatoes. If they’re growing under glass the fruit will be ripening fast in this hot spell so pick them every day or two.