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Vegetable Gardening - Keeping the Harvest Going

Maintaining the vegetable garden starts with harvesting your vegetables at peak. The more you pick, the more vegetables your plants will produce. Here's when to harvest and other tips to keep your vegetable garden producing for the longest season.
A Long Producing Vegetable Garden - Extend Your Vegetable Growing Seas
You can have a long producing vegetable garden with minimal effort. Keep harvesting in your vegetable garden into the fall and maybe even winter months. A long producing vegetable garden is possible, if you heed some simple, but key gardening rules.
Harvesting Vegetables - How Do You Know When to Pick?
There are no precise guidelines as to when to harvest your vegetables, but there are some rules of thumb to guide you. Most vegetables are harvested just before full maturity, for maximum flavor and the most pleasant texture. The following are criterion for judging whether your vegetables are ready for picking.

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