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Many vegetables, most noticeably sweet corn and sugarsnap peas, are full of sugars that start turning to starch as soon as they’re picked, so you will get the best and most flavorful experience if you eat them as close to harvest as possible.

Squash is full of starch that slowly turns to sugars once it gets picked, so you will get the best and most flavorful experience if you wait six weeks to three months (depending on the variety) after harvest before eating them.

Cold-hardy roots and brassicas are full of starch that turns to sugars after exposure to frost, so you will get the best and most flavorful eating experience if you wait to pick them until they’ve gone through multiple freezes.

This has been Vegetable Lore With Scribe.

The best way to enjoy peas is straight off the plant in the garden as you pick them. If, upon return to the house, the others enquire as to where the peas are, sadly inform them that you had a blight of pea moth this year and all the pods were full of caterpillars