- 1). Cradle the base of the vegetable in your left hand if it's not too heavy. You can leave heavier vegetables laying on the ground. Turn or roll the vegetable until you can clearly see its stem.
- 2). Snip the stem as close to the vegetable as possible. You can leave more of the stem on pumpkins if you're going to be using them for Halloween carvings. Use a pair of sharp bypass pruning shears to make this cut.
- 3). Clean the pruning blades with rubbing alcohol whenever you need to use the same shears to cut a different plant of the same variety or a different plant species altogether. This ensures you don't spread disease.
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