Gardening Series: Tips for Harveting and Storing Fruits & Vegetables from Your Garden P4

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Harvesting

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  • the odors of the vegetables they’re stored with. So store them separately, unless you want onion-scented peaches!

  • Air Flow: Allow some air to flow around the fruit to slow down rotting.

  • Remove Rot: Inspect daily and remove anything that shows signs of spoilage to prevent the spread of rot.

  • Moisture Control: Add a

General Principles for Long-Term Storage

The main goal of food preservation is to control or inactivate the factors that cause food to spoil, such as “bad” microorganisms and enzymes that cause discomfort, illness, and potentially even death. We inhibit bad microbial growth in any number of ways, including reducing moisture, reducing temperature, increasing acidity, and increasing temperature increasing good microbial growth

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Fertilizing

• If June-bearing plants do not produce many runners by mid-July this usually means the plants need more nitrogen.

• You can apply compost or an organic fertilizer, such as blood meal, around the plants to increase nitrogen for plant growth.

• Before plants begin to grow in the spring of the second year, you may need to add more compost or organic nitrogen to encourage plant growth and fruit development.

Weeding

• Because strawberries are poor competitors, keep all weeds out of the strawberry bed.

• Hand-weeding is recommended for home gardeners.

• Careful cultivation with a hoe is effective for managing weeds in strawberry plantings, but be careful not to dig too deeply, as you could damage the plant's shallow root system.Shidonna Raven Garden & Cook How to: Clean Cooking & Eating

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