Growing your own fruit and vegetables will give you fuller flavours and a much wider choice of varieties than shop-bought produce. Here's what you should be doing and when. Shallots Starting tomatoes Rhubarb Seed potatoes Nectarines, apricots and peaches Hand-pollinate nectarine, apricot and peach trees growing under glass.
Outdoor trees require fortnightly fungicide sprays to guard against peach leaf curl.
Spray peaches and nectarines with a copper fungicide solution to protect against peach leaf curl. Tree planting Finish planting bare-rooted fruit trees by March. Container-grown trees can be planted out at any time of year. Home-grown strawberries are a welcome summer treat and runners planted now should flower in order to fruit this year. Choose several different varieties to spread the harvest season from June until late summer.