Use water butts instead of tap water as often as you can when watering your plants. Keep bird baths topped

Regularly deadhead bedding and perennial plants to encourage new blooms for as long as possible. Cutting back growth in hanging

Thin out the fruits on your fruit trees to produce good sized crops. This also helps to prevent brown rot.

Pepper plants will benefit from being potted into progressively larger pots. If you’re growing aubergines, pinch out the growing tip

Water newly seeded or turfed lawns in hot weather. Don’t allow new lawns to dry out. This is your last

Harden off and plant out any plug plants that you’ve been growing on. Try hanging sticky traps to catch flying