Summer Vegetable Harvest Tips
by
Organo Republic
17 Aug 2022
The most popular vegetables that gardeners plant for summer harvest are carrots, corn, cucumber, eggplant, melons, watermelons, onions, okra, and peppers.
- Harvest large enough carrot roots when the ground cools in late summer, so it becomes more
sweeter.
- Corn should be harvested when the silk at the top of the cob turns brown, and the cob appears puffy.
- Cut the cucumbers off the bush when they are large enough and pluck the yellowed fruits so that the plant does not lose strength on them.
- A ripe eggplant has glossy skin and stops growing.
- To determine the ripeness of the melon, tap the fruit and observe the change in skin color. Then, stop watering a week before harvest to allow the sugar to concentrate in the fruit.
- Okra - Harvest 2 to 4 inch (5 to 10 cm) pods daily from the bottom of the plant.
- Onions - cut the "green" onions as needed, and when the tops begin to turn yellow, collect and cure the bulbs.
- Harvest peppers when firm flesh has formed on the fruit. Cut off green peppers to increase yield, or wait until fully ripe for a sweeter or spicier pepper.
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