For the best flavor, harvest sweet corn just before cooking.
To ripen green tomatoes, place them in a paper bag with a ripe apple.
Be careful of wasps while working around rock piles, stone walls and old tree stumps.
Water early in the morning when possible to avoid long periods of leaf wetness.
Begin grooming houseplants summering outside to prepare them for the move indoors.
Red and yellow onions store better than white onions.
Preserve sweet corn by cutting barely cooked kernels off cob and freezing in bags.
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