Pinch out tips of new growth on figs at the end of month, when the shoots have 5 leaves. Stop cutting asparagus now and topdress with a general purpose fertilizer. Regularly pinch out side shoots of cordon tomatoes. Summer prune gooseberries.
Sow salad crops at 2 week intervals. Plant out pumpkins and squashes, put straw around strawberries.
Clip box and privet hedges, but check there are no birds nesting.
Prune spring flowering shrubs such as weigelia and philidelphus.
Dead-head and cut back oriental poppies after flowering to stimulate new foliage.
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