This week in your Massachusetts garden & landscape
Harvest peppers as needed.
Harvest beans, summer squash and cucumbers while they are small and sweet.
Dig potatoes as soon as leafy stems have died.
Harvest pickling cucumbers when they are 2–6 inches long.
Cut leafy greens rather than pull up the plants; they’ll continue to yield more greens.
Continue to plant colorful annuals to fill gaps in perennial borders.
Leaf lettuce is less prone to bitterness in hot weather than head lettuce.
Store unused seed in a cold, dry location.
Plant tomatoes when soil temperature is at least 60.
Plant purple basil as an edible edging at the front of flower borders.
