- Quick to grow salad crops which can still be planted progressively include lettuce (loose leaf and cos); radishes; tatsoi; spring onions; Chinese greens and baby carrots.
- Use sticky traps to catch whitefly in greenhouses where you prefer not to use chemicals. Ants can be discouraged from herding aphids on trees with barrier glue around the trunk.
- An established strawberry bed that has finished cropping can be cleared of old foliage and unwanted runners. Remember that many new strawberry hybrids do NOT produce runners and that you will have to buy new plants if you wish to grow more. Pineberries will, but require a different pollinator.
- Stone fruit trees should be pruned now and a supply of Bordeaux mix should be on hand at leaf fall.
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