When it's really hard to the touch, with smoothy, shiny skin, your bell pepper is ready for harvest. In another 3-4 weeks, it will turn red, orange, or yellow.| Ask the Food Geek
If the weather is too hot while your bell pepper plants are flowering, you'll lose some flowers, but not all of them. You can provide shade with shade cloth.| Ask the Food Geek
Butternut squash are vining plants that naturally spread along the ground, but with just a little help they easily climb up a trellis. The trellised vines are pretty, of course, but the benefits are more| Ask the Food Geek
Harvest pickling cucumbers when they are small. Gherkins should be about the size of your thumb, sliced pickles just smaller than a spice jar, and spears should be just larger than a spice jar.| Ask the Food Geek