Impatient? Tips for a quicker vegetable harvest

Associated Press • Beets are seen for sale at a farmer’s market. Many vegetables get woodier, less succulent and lose some of their sweetness as they grow more mature. New potatoes, radishes, baby carrots, zucchini, miniature cucumbers, spring peas, turnips and beets offer up their best ...

Associated Press • Heirloom tomatoes, rear, can take more than 100 days to ripen, while the smaller cherry tomatoes, foreground, need only 65 days. Grow both varieties to stagger the dates of your harvest.