There’s plenty for you to harvest now
■ HARVEST courgettes quickly before they turn to marrows, second earlies and maincrop potatoes if the foliage is going yellow. French and runner beans can be cropped regularly and onions, shallots and garlic are ready to dig up when foliage becomes yellow and flops over.
■ CHECK for cabbage white butterfly eggs and remove. Do the same with blackfly on broad beans and aphids everywhere.
■ IT may seem an age away but you could be ordering your spring bulbs now for delivery in September.
■ SPOT-TREAT lawn weeds or pull out by hand if possible.
■ CUT back perennials that are finished or those that will give a second flush such as hardy geraniums. Deadhead bedding plants and perennials to encourage more flowers.
■ TRIM lavender to prevent it becoming too leggy.
■ PREVENT disease by removing rose leaves with black spot from the ground and fallen diseased apples or pears.
■ IF you are growing fruit in containers, give them a high potash liquid feed.
■ TAKE leaf cuttings from houseplants such as Begonia rex, African violets, Cape primroses and Kalanchoe.