Complete knowledge about growing vegetables and also includes signs that tell us when they are ready to be harvested. This information can be obtained either from a book or from the net. Some obvious leads are very commonplace and stem from the same rules that you might apply, if you were buying them in a store or from a market place.

Root vegetables like garlic, ginger, potatoes or onions, however, do not necessarily have a common indication. Onions for example, show their heads above the soil and this is when you should dig them out. Their foliage by this time seems floppy but cutting this off earlier, would deny the onion bulb precious food that these stems supply. Carrots, on the other hand, do not always oblige in the same manner. When their stems are tall and thick, pull one out and test it. The green shoots of beets are tasty and can be used. A baseball-sized beetroot is about ready to be harvested.

Okra is easy to judge for this vegetable is ready when it is about 3 or 4 inches in size, tender, and the tip snaps off easily when bent. The seeds at this time are also not very big or hard. Snip off this vegetable but leave some stem behind to facilitate more okra growing on the same plant.

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