Hi michelelc, Farmerdill has it dialed in, but for us newbies, that thing could start bolting at any minute (because of the heat/lateness etc etc) , If you want to eat some of your cabbage, I would pick NOW, just to be on the safe side, this year sucked for me with my cabbage harvest , I lost 1500 pounds (though it made awesome compost materials), due to bolting/not completely heading up. Here are a couple of pics to show what I mean, at first it looked like it was going to head up, but alas, it bolted ;-( Every bed in the background is about to be tossed onto the compost pile ;-( What it should look like:

Hi, I just planted a couple of thousand of them, on my seed package, it says 90 to 110 days to maturity, every year we have an annual pumpkin patch, so in order for our plants not to rot before October season, in Arkansas, we have to wait until July to plant them, generally, the vines begin to die back when they are finished. I hope this helps.

Many peppers will turn red when completely ripe. If you are looking to save seeds, you will need to leave them on the vine to ripen, or at least start to ripen. But many are just eaten in the unripe stage. I have jalapenos, poblanos and some bell peppers that I've been picking green. I also have tabasco and cayenne peppers that I leave on the plant to ripen. But I've also left a couple of the bells ripen to red. Pick them when you want to pick them. You can eat them in pretty much every stage of ripeness.

I've been eating apples right off the tree my entire life. For the past thirty years I've been living in a major apple growing area of Southern British Columbia here in Canada. When apples have a nice blush to them (besides fruit falling from the tree) that is the first sign they are ready for picking. Taste your fruit when they appear to be ripe, when you like what you are eating pick your fruit. Fruit on the tree will eventually ripen to the point of being mealy so don't leave the fruit hanging too long. As for those Coddling Moths try hanging sticky yellow cards in your trees. Yellow cards attract flying insects such as aphids and all sorts of other flying insects that can damage fruit and even ruin the tree over time. Here in Canada orchardists have been combating Coddling Moth by releasing sterile moths that help to reduce the overall population. Apple trees are lime lovers. They thrive in sweet soil. Add as much as two kilos of hydrated or dolomite lime as a top dressing around each tree right out to their drip lines. Another given with apples is water. Obviously with water restrictions in much of Australia watering your apple tree may be out of the question however with sufficient watering fruit will be bigger, juicier, with enough sunshine add wonderful sweetness! Oh yes! Don't forget, 'An Apple a Day . . . !'