- 1). Water on a regular schedule. Most vegetables require 1 1/2 inches of rain per week to stay healthy. If the rainfall doesn't provide that level, augment with hand watering.
- 2). Feed the plant on a monthly basis with a fertilizer meant for flowers. Most fertilizers meant for flowers have less nitrogen and more phosphorous than fertilizers for vegetables.
- 3). Let the plants grow. Do not harvest leaves or roots. In the case of broccoli, cauliflower and artichokes, the consumable part is the immature flower. If you harvest the vegetable, there will be no flowers.
- 4). Let root vegetables remain in the ground. Carrots, beets and turnips are biennial and grow leaves the first year, die back to the ground in the fall and flower the second year. They will eventually send up a flower stalk that will bloom.
- 5). Keep lettuces and leafy greens growing until summer arrives. The warmer weather encourages these vegetables to bolt or grow a central flower stalk.
- 6). Harvest immature fruits from tomatoes, peppers, beans, peas, squash and eggplants. Removing the fruits encourages these vegetables to flower more.
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