{"id":67,"date":"2012-10-04T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2012-10-04T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T13:44:00","slug":"monsterous-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Monsterous Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, it’s October, and I am completely focused on Halloween, my favorite holiday.\u00a0 In the spirit of that, I give you photos of monsterous and mutant\u00a0vegetables.<\/p>\n

This is one of the radishes that grew out back with the pumpkins.\u00a0 The stalk on it got long enough that it trailed down and intertwined with the pumpkins, so it was not until the pumpkin vines started dying off that we noticed there was this monsterous mutant growing with the pumpkins.\u00a0 It’s about the size of a softball:<\/p>\n

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Way too large for a radish.\u00a0 It did make us wonder how long we could leave them there and just how big they would get.<\/p>\n

As you know, our squash plants were decimated by squash beetles.\u00a0 Our neighbors, J & S, just a few hundred feet from us, saw virtually no damage at all.\u00a0 They planted quite a bit of zucchini & summer squash, and it often gets away from them, as is evidenced in the photo below:<\/p>\n

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They are arranged in an oversized mixing bowl in that photo, and the soda bottle you see in the upper right corner is actually a 2-liter bottle of soda, not a 16-oz one, just so you have perspective.<\/div>\n
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We actually\u00a0consumed all that squash (I made epic amounts of chocolate chip zucchini bread, which freezes really well), but we chose to leave the radish for the rabbit.\ufeff<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, it’s October, and I am completely focused on Halloween, my favorite holiday.\u00a0 In the spirit of that, I give you photos of monsterous and mutant\u00a0vegetables. This is one of the radishes that grew out back with the pumpkins.\u00a0 The stalk on it got long enough that it trailed down and intertwined with the pumpkins, … Continue reading Monsterous Vegetables<\/span> →<\/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":[20,27,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-15","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67"}],"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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}