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Harvest
Guides and how-tos from the Garden Planner Pro blog on harvest.
7 posts
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The Crops That Save You Money Are the Ones Sold in Little Plastic Boxes
If you garden to cut the grocery bill, potatoes and onions are the wrong place to start. Plan next year around the herbs, salad and fruit you buy by the ounce.
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No Root Cellar? Your Potatoes and Onions Want Opposite Rooms
Potatoes want cold and damp, onions want cool and dry, squash wants neither. How to find three storage climates in an ordinary house, and what rots when you don't.
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Green Tomatoes on the Vine? The Frost Timeline You're Ignoring
Tomatoes stop ripening once nights drop below 50°F, weeks before your actual frost date. What to pick now, how to ripen it indoors, and what to do with the rest.
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Freshly Dug Sweet Potatoes Taste Like Cardboard. The Week After Is What Fixes That.
Sweet potatoes are not sweet the day you dig them. What happens in the warm week afterward is what makes them worth growing, and most gardeners skip it.
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Your Winter Squash Will Rot by Thanksgiving Because of How You Cut It Off the Vine
Squash that goes soft in November was lost the day you picked it. How to tell when it's ripe, how to cut it, and the one type you should never warm-cure.
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Your Tomato Plant Is Still Setting Flowers, and Every One Is a Lie
A tomato flower opening in late August will not become a tomato. Here is the math, and what pinching the tops off does for the green fruit already on the vine.
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Your Onions Rot in Storage Because of What You Did the Week You Pulled Them
Onions that go soft at the neck in November were lost back in August. How to cure onions and garlic properly, what to sort out, and where to keep them.
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