Is it ripe? Take your gardening to the next level with this practical guide to ripeness. Whether knee deep in the garden or shopping at the market, you'll learn the best time to pick edibles and how to identify the most perfectly ripe produce. Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables includes more than seventy edibles with details on varieties, history, tips on when to pick and when to buy, what to look for when buying produce in the market, best places to grow certain produce, picking advice, what to avoid buying, storage, and ripening tips. With dozens of photographs of ripe, over ripe, and under ripe edibles, as well as details on nonvisual signs of ripeness such as taste, feel, and smell, Square Foot Gardening: Growing Perfect Vegetables will leave no doubt in your mind whether you're dealing with ripe or not ripe.