Save fruit trees from the 'June drop' – the one thing Monty Don says you need to do to ensure a bigger, healthier harvest

Red apples growing on apple tree in garden.

Noticed a scattering of tiny apples or pears beneath your fruit trees this month? You've been hit by (you've been struck by!) the June drop.

Yet another of those scary-sounding gardening terms that gets bandied about a lot, the June drop is a perfectly natural phenomenon that occurs in gardens across the UK around early summer.