WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK

■ ON sunny days it can really heat up in the greenhouse. Use shading when necessary and keep everything watered daily.

■ IN the veg garden you can sow courgettes, runner beans, French beans, sweetcorn and marrows outdoors, as well as the successional sowing of radishes, lettuces and spring onions.

■ PLANT outdoors tomato plants and pinch out side shoots.

■ INSPECT gooseberries for sawfly, remove if found, and prune the current season’s growth back to five leaves.

This shouldn’t remove any developing fruit which grows mainly on old wood.

■ IF growing strawberries, cover the soil with black plastic or straw underneath them. Start a weekly feed when fruit forms. Use organic methods to keep slugs away and net to protect from birds.

■ WATCH aphids – especially if you have roses. Remove by hand or with a hose.

Aphids will damage roses if left unchecked