April

• Continue sowing and planting vegetables and herbs including leeks, fennel, tomatoes, sweetcorn and courgettes
• Plant container-grown fruit trees and main crop potatoes
• Thin out seedlings
• Keep sowing successional crops such as lettuce, radish, beetroot, peas, broad beans, salad onions and turnips
• Feed berries and currants

May

• Thin out vegetables sown earlier
• Sow and plant out tender vegetables later in the month
• Keep on top of the weeds by hoeing and weeding.