When the seedlings are about 2cm tall thin out to leave the strongest seedlings plenty of space to grow - chard needs 30cm between plants, spinach beet 38cm and spinach 25cm. Keep the soil around ...

Grow it: Sow strawberry spinach in modules from early spring ... and grow into a large bushy plant about 1m tall and wide. Cook it: Remove the papery casing, chop finely and mix with a generous ...

Fertilise flowering plants but if you are going away, delay until your return. There is still time to sow marigolds, alyssum, ...