To help stop your fruit tree getting caterpillar trouble next year, now is the time to place grease bands around the trunks of your trees. About three feet off the ground.
By the way, I have also noticed that in doing so, it also stops rats climbing up the tree to take fruit. So the grease is a two way guard against : rats and caterpillars.
If you have in mind to start a new bed of strawberries, this is the last week really to do it. Choose a south facing bed if possible to get early fruit in June.
If you still have tomatoes in the ground, it is best to pick everything you have now.
Place the fruit on a sunny window ledge to ripen them, or you can make chutney with them which will last right though the year.
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