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BY KENNER P. LOVE
Extension Agent, ANR
Crop & Soil Sciences
The following are garden tips from the Rappahannock Extension Office.
• If weed plants are mature, plan to weed your garden early in the morning when moisture is present to prevent the seed heads from shattering and dropping weed seeds in the garden.
• After watering, the soil in the vegetable garden should be moist to a depth of eight to ten inches. If the moisture is not that deep, evaluate your watering technique.
• Yellow crook-neck or straight-neck squash taste best when four to seven inches long. Pick when pale yellow (rather than golden) and before skin hardens. Scalloped (patty pan) squash is best when grayish or greenish white (before it turns ivory white) and is still small, even silver-dollar size.
• Remove cucumbers by turning fruits parallel to the vine and giving a quick snap. This prevent vine damage and results in a clean break. If you have trouble mastering this, take a sharp knife to the garden for harvesting. Cut or pull cucumbers, leaving a short stem on each fruit.
• Drought or hot, dry winds can cause pepper blossoms to drop. Mist plants with water twice a day to help retain blossoms and set fruit.
• If you would like to garden on an herbicide-treated area, but are unsure of whether residual herbicide will damage your plants, try sowing tomato and ryegrass seed in soil from the plot. If they
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