{"id":184,"date":"2013-06-03T10:03:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T10:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2013-06-03T14:12:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T14:12:20","slug":"184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Done&#8230;..with planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We finished planting this weekend, in some of the hottest weather we have seen this early in June.  It felt unspeakably hot to be out there yesterday, but we persevered.  The tally:<\/p>\n<p>125 Mr. Big Peas<br \/>\n120 Sweet Peas<br \/>\n100 Royal Purple Bush Beans<br \/>\n48 Pole Beans<br \/>\n2nd planting of Sweet corn<br \/>\n7 Sugar Baby watermelon plants<br \/>\n4 Moon &#038; Stars watermelon plants<br \/>\n8 Dill&#8217;s Atlantic Giant pumpkins<br \/>\n9 Amish pumpkins (those mysterious pumpkins from the purchase 2 years ago in upstate NY at an Amish farm stand)<br \/>\n8 Jack-Be-Little pumpkins<br \/>\n7 Orange Smoothies<\/p>\n<p>And it look like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CIMG6323.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CIMG6323-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG6323\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CIMG6323-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CIMG6323-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CIMG6323.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..which doesn&#8217;t look like much at this point.  It joins the sweet potatoes, first corn planting (of a brand called Quickie; we&#8217;ll see if it lives up to it&#8217;s name) and sunflowers.  No edible value to sunflowers, really (well, except the seeds) but we&#8217;ve always wanted to grow them so this year we finally got around to planting some.<\/p>\n<p>This year we&#8217;ve fenced the entire garden.  Last year we only fenced the peas, beans and corn, which worked out fine, but once the pumpkins, watermelons and winter squash had matured, something came through and sampled a little bit out of quite a few of the fruits.  Plus, this year we have a turkey.  We think it&#8217;s a female, but who can tell?  (It could be a juvenile male.  Only time will tell.)  This turkey enjoys walking across the corn, and snoozing in the dirt mounds we created to plant the watermelons, squash and pumpkins.  So up went the fence.  Which works, because as I was finishing up the watering yesterday she walked out of the brush and right into the fence.  Someone unhelpfully pointed out turkeys can fly.  We&#8217;re hoping the dirt isn&#8217;t that appealing to her that she&#8217;ll fly over and end up stuck.  Or knock the fence over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finished planting this weekend, in some of the hottest weather we have seen this early in June. It felt unspeakably hot to be out there yesterday, but we persevered. The tally: 125 Mr. Big Peas 120 Sweet Peas 100 Royal Purple Bush Beans 48 Pole Beans 2nd planting of Sweet corn 7 Sugar Baby &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Done&#8230;..with planting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[15,13,36,18,11,47,25,14,26,29,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3f8I6-184","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}