JOBS 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 outdoor veg garden you can sow courgettes, runner beans, French beans, sweetcorn and marrows as well as successional sowing of radishes, lettuces and spring onions. Thin out seedlings. ■ Plant outdoors tomato plants and pinch out side shoots.
■ Inspect gooseberries for sawfly, remove if found and prune current season’s growth back to five leaves. This shouldn’t remove any developing fruit which grows mainly on old wood. ■ Growing strawberries? Cover the soil with black plastic or straw underneath them. Start weekly feed when fruit begins to form. Use organic methods to keep slugs away and net to protect fruit from birds. ■ Watch for aphids – especially if you have lupins and roses.
You can remove by hand or with a hose.