Since cucumbers are quick growers, they become overripe quickly. Knowing when your cucumbers are ready to pick is an essential part of getting a yummy harvest.

“The best way to determine if your vegetables are truly ready to harvest is by looking at them and, most importantly, tasting them,” says Nastya Vasylchyshyna, resident botany expert at Plantum.

It is essential to know when cucumbers are ready to pick, to avoid hard, under-ripe or mushy, bitter, over-ripe fruit. Anyone growing cucumbers will be keenly anticipating harvest. Whether looking ...

Onions are ready when their tops flop over and turn brown.

It’s time — or getting to be time — for us gardeners to reap what we’ve sown. Although it’s fairly evident when some edibles, like tomatoes, are ripe for the picking (uniform red, yellow ...

Cucumbers are considered mature when their bumpy skin smooths out. You’ll know sweet corn is ready as soon as the silk at the top of its ear turns brown.

It’s about time to begin harvesting garden-grown vegetables. Many edibles, like tomatoes, show obvious signs of ripeness. But others are more ambiguous. Zucchini, for instance, doesn’t change ...

How to tell when your garden veggies are ripe for harvesting It’s about time to begin harvesting garden-grown vegetables.