The Fruit Gardener's Guide - May
May brings warmer weather and sunshine, and before you know it, early batches of strawberries are ready to be picked. Try to keep weeds down as much as possible by placing a layer of mulch around your fruit plants.
May is the time to:
Mulch:
Pick (when ripe):
Things to do:
- Thin out raspberry shoots, leaving only six or seven canes to each plant
- Spread strips of black polythene or clean straw along rows of strawberries to act as a mulch, which will suppress weeds, keep the fruit clean and keep away those dreaded slugs
- Mulch raspberries and black currants with clean straw
- Remove suckers formed at the base of fruit trees and bushes as soon as they appear
- Erect cages or netting over soft fruit to protect them from the birds
- Keep weeds under control
- Towards the end of the month, thin out the fruits on peaches and nectarines
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May Fruit Gardening in the UK... 
