5 garden tips for this week, June 16-22

1 Harvest time
Happy Father’s Day weekend! Harvest stone fruits and summer oranges as they ripen week by week. Stone fruits must be harvested fairly quickly once they start ripening.
However, citrus fruits get sweeter the longer they stay on the tree but don’t sweeten any more after picking, so take only as many as you can use each week.
Remember also to keep up with watering, because ripening fruit requires more moisture. Check daily as fruit matures to get them at their peak. If bi