Things really come on in July, and you’ll be spoilt for choice with salad leaves, radishes, French beans, strawberries, courgettes, tomatoes, peas, carrots – enough for a feast!

So much is ready now, you may find it hard to keep up with the picking and eating! It’s worth it though – food tastes so good when it’s this fresh, and it’ll be past its best before you know it.

You can sow these things straight into the ground so you’ll still be enjoying fresh pickings all the way through till autumn:

• French beans, which should still be producing in October
• Peas, but choose the right type such as Kelevedon Wonder or Pioneer which will crop in the autumn.

Sow short-rooted carrots to be harvested in October.

With the summer holidays coming up, it’s a good idea to set up a rota of jobs to do in your Edible Playground. That means you can carry on enjoying what you’ve grown all summer long…and there’ll be lots more to come when school starts again in September.

• Hoe and weed beds
• Thin beetroot seedlings
• Buy and plant up strawberry plants for a crop next year.
• Put mulch around vegetables (grass cuttings will do) so the ground retains as much moisture as possible over the holiday
• Pinch out growing tips of cordon tomatoes
• Keep feeding and watering tomatoes.