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.
Strawberries Peg down runners from new plants into the soil or pots of compost to root.
Shear off the foliage just above the crown of each plant and clear away any debris. Apples Finish summer pruning the sideshoots on trained apple trees. In July prune back the main shoots and sideshoots to five leaves, especially on cordon-trained varieties. Raspberries Pick the last crops, then prune the stems of summer varieties down to soil level. Courgettes Regularly pick small and tender courgettes, carefully cutting them off at the base with a sharp knife.