Vegetables, Herbs & Fruit
- Plant Garlic, rhubarb, shallots, Egyptian multiplier onions and Fava Beans for harvest next season.
- Transplant strawberries that have rooted from runners. Plants should be 9-12 inches apart. Relocate newly rooted “plantlets” now and they will bear fruit next year.
- Harvest cauliflower, broccoli, leeks, onions, Brussels sprouts, kale, lettuce, parsnips, winter storage potatoes (now that the foliage has dried and whithered), radishes, pumpkins (leave a few inches of stem. If stem breaks off rot usually results) and rutabagas.
- Harvest frost sensitive fruits like tomatoes, peppers, eggplants cucumbers, squash, and melons before the frost. If fruit of tomato is full size but green they will ripen well. Place in dark spot that is about 50 degrees. James Underwood Crockett used to put them in a picnic cooler that he placed in a garage. The addition of an apple will speed up the process. For fruit, which are not fully-grown, it is best to find some good green tomato recipes. Remember green tomatoes are just like green peppers, not fully ripe. We eat green peppers all the time so why not tomatoes? They are related after all.
- Harvest Apples when a twist of the wrist will release them from the tree.
- After frost harvest persimmons as they will be much sweeter and less astringent.