40 Tips to Maximize Your Harvest
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lesa
Garden Master
Rhubarb tea!!! I will surely be trying this! Thanks!
digitS'
Garden Master
There are kind of 2 topics covered in this 1 article:
a.)maximize harvest
b.)maximize use of harvest
If I was to vote on how to maximize garden production and then, harvesting, I'd pick 3 as especially important:
4. Emphasize What Grows Well for You. These veggies have to be things that you want to use in the kitchen but planting many square feet of something just as an experiment isn't very practical. 7. Choose High-Yielding Crops and Varieties, seems to be saying the same thing twice.
You may still want to have 5 pounds of shallots and be willing to sacrifice the space that could have grown 25 pounds of storage onions. Be reasonable, it is your diet and your enjoyment of food should take precedent over simple tonnage.
14. Succession Sow for Steady Harvests and how you do that, 15. Use Seedlings to Run Tight Successions. Try the 1st sowing or transplanting a little earlier than what seems optimum and then go a little later than what seems reasonable. You may be surprised! Succession planting requires that you have enuf seed! Buying tiny packets won't allow succession planting unless you only want to grow enuf for 1 person - if that. Seed is usually viable for several years so the purchase of a larger packet isn't wasteful.
Harvest and then remove plants, replacing them immediately. Some things transplant easily and having them on-hand is a big plus.
17. Pick Things at Their Peak and that requires, 20. Pick Early and Often. Don't ignore your garden for days on end or walk past veggies in their prime only to feel compelled to grab them just as they go round-the-bend! Shame, shame for passing up the good stuff and forcing yourself to eat 2nd-rate veggies!
. . . just my 2
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Steve
a.)maximize harvest
b.)maximize use of harvest
If I was to vote on how to maximize garden production and then, harvesting, I'd pick 3 as especially important:
4. Emphasize What Grows Well for You. These veggies have to be things that you want to use in the kitchen but planting many square feet of something just as an experiment isn't very practical. 7. Choose High-Yielding Crops and Varieties, seems to be saying the same thing twice.
You may still want to have 5 pounds of shallots and be willing to sacrifice the space that could have grown 25 pounds of storage onions. Be reasonable, it is your diet and your enjoyment of food should take precedent over simple tonnage.
14. Succession Sow for Steady Harvests and how you do that, 15. Use Seedlings to Run Tight Successions. Try the 1st sowing or transplanting a little earlier than what seems optimum and then go a little later than what seems reasonable. You may be surprised! Succession planting requires that you have enuf seed! Buying tiny packets won't allow succession planting unless you only want to grow enuf for 1 person - if that. Seed is usually viable for several years so the purchase of a larger packet isn't wasteful.
Harvest and then remove plants, replacing them immediately. Some things transplant easily and having them on-hand is a big plus.
17. Pick Things at Their Peak and that requires, 20. Pick Early and Often. Don't ignore your garden for days on end or walk past veggies in their prime only to feel compelled to grab them just as they go round-the-bend! Shame, shame for passing up the good stuff and forcing yourself to eat 2nd-rate veggies!
. . . just my 2
.Steve
