Throughout the summer, use netting to protect cherry trees and fruiting bushes and canes from the birds. Add a layer of mulch around trees and bushes to conserve moisture; feed as necessary.

In early summer, thin the fruits of apricots and peaches, and remove unwanted or weak canes from raspberries. Plant out new alpine strawberry plants, and water established strawberries well, pegging out runners if this was not done in late spring. Blackberries and hybrid berries may be tip-layered, or leaf-bud cuttings may be taken.

By mid summer, ensure that all fruit trees grown against walls receive regular irrigation whilst their fruits are swelling. Unwanted shoots should be removed from apricots, cherries, figs and plums so that the tree does not become over laden. Start training espalier and dwarf trees.

Trained apples, pears and pyramid plums should be pruned in late summer, and their fruit thinned if they have a heavy crop. Rooted strawberry runners may be planted out at this point, into ground that has been suitably enriched with old compost or manure.