- Continue successional sowings of salads, peas and spinach
- Pinch out the tops of broad beans if they are attacked by blackfly
- Put up a protective screen around carrots against carrot fly
- Earth up potatoes and, if the shoots are threatened by frost cover them with fleece
- Plant leeks and all members of the cabbage family
- Stake tall herbaceous plants before they grow too big
- Take cuttings of mint and rosemary
- Ventilate cold frames more generously
- Tuck straw under strawberries as the fruit begins to swell
Inside
- Keep greenhouse well ventilated
- Remove side-shoots from tomatoes as they appear and start feeding with a liquid fertilizer at every watering
- Pot on peppers into their final pots
- Start to feed aubergines, cucumbers, melons and peppers growing in pots
- If plants in pots waiting to be planted out begin to look yellow, give them a liquid feed.
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