{"id":3208,"date":"2010-10-18T18:37:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2010-10-18T18:37:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T01:37:37","slug":"garden-tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=3208","title":{"rendered":"Garden Tally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, REALLY poopy year for tomaters.  It was a very stereotypical western Washington summer which means that it was cool and damp for much of the summer.  Great for the climate, crappy for tomatoes.  I&#8217;ve got the third batch in the dehydrator even as we speak, but it was just too cold to ripen any of the big tomatoes well (thus the dehydrator &#8212; dried tomatoes that are vaguely underripe taste just fine) and even the cherry tomatoes didn&#8217;t do very well.  The plants did okay, but they didn&#8217;t set much fruit.<br \/>\nFinally managed to have some success with the beans.  Lots and LOTS of beans in the freezer.<br \/>\nI tried my hand at a jalepeno pepper plant which did, of course, CRAPPY.  Got some onions, got a decent number of potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>But what I find the most entertaining about this year&#8217;s garden?<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t plant a single one of these pumpkins.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/mysterypumpkins1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/mysterypumpkins1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mysterypumpkins\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/mysterypumpkins1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/mysterypumpkins1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet another reason to love organic gardening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, REALLY poopy year for tomaters. It was a very stereotypical western Washington summer which means that it was cool and damp for much of the summer. Great for the climate, crappy for tomatoes. I&#8217;ve got the third batch in the dehydrator even as we speak, but it was just too cold to ripen any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}