Growing your own vegetables is a great way to provide your family with homegrown, organic food, but it’s not always easy to tell when crops are ready to harvest. Harvesting at the right time can have a big impact on crop yield and quality, and in order to help you get the most from your garden, we wanted to share our best tips on harvesting vegetables.

Have you ever wandered your local garden center and been mystified by the numbers prominently displayed on the bags of fertilizer?
It turns out that those numbers are pretty easy to decode. They always follow the same order: N, P, K. If you remember your high school chemistry, the first number represents the percentage of nitrogen (N), the second number is the percentage of phosphorous(P) and the third, the percentage of potassium(K).

How To Manage Your Plants for Better Health and Better Fruit By Frank Ferrandino The intrinsic vigor and hardiness of tomatoes almost always guarantee a successful harvest. However, the rapid growth