Ripe and The Key to Picking at the Peak!

By Jerry J. Jansen On September 14, 2009 Under Ripe On The Vine

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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. Some turn a special color, while others should be picked when they are a certain size. There are usually guidelines on the seed packages regarding when the proper time to start picking your produce should be. Be sure to read these guidelines as they can help you determine when you will need to begin looking for ripeness.

Once you learn what to look for with each plant, you will be able to easily find the ripe produce in your garden and will be able to leave the vegetables that might need a day or two more on the vine to ripen naturally.

Be sure to use your fruits and vegetables within a couple of days of picking as most will begin to deteriorate rather quickly once they have been picked or taken out of the ground.

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