Vegetables

Encourage your strawberry plants to spread out by pegging down runners into the soil. They'll form roots and be ready to separate from the parent plant by August.

This is the month to enjoy the veg of your labour. Pick early dwarf and runner beans, beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, celeriac, celery, coriander, cucumber, endive, kale, lettuce, spring onions, bulb onions, peppers, rhubarb, rocket, spinach, strawberries, Swiss chard, and tomatoes.

To stop your courgettes becoming marrows, pick them this month too.

The amount of vegetables for growing is starting to go down. But there are some that you can start sowing: beetroot, spring cabbage; carrots*, radishes*, next years cauliflowers, coriander (Cilantro), endive, lettuce*, winter hardy spring onions, Pak Choi, radicchio, and turnips.

(*For continuation)