Ripe on the Vine: The Key to Picking at the Peak!
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After spending all season nurturing your plants, spending hours weeding, picking through every weed, watering, and feeding them, it is now time to harvest your crops. But when is the right time to do so?
While there really is not an exact guide that will tell you precisely when you need to pick your ripened fruits and vegetables, there are some guidelines you can go by. While the only fail proof way to guarantee the perfect time to harvest is to taste them, you can use different tried and true techniques to determine the approximate day that certain vegetables and fruits should be harvested. Keep in mind that most crops need to be harvested right before they reach full maturity.
Each type of fruit and vegetable has it’s own unique tell-tale sign that it has reached it’s peak. There are many resources available to help you find what you should be looking for with each variety of vegetable or fruit you have planted in your organic garden.
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