{"id":97,"date":"2011-10-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2011-10-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T10:00:00","slug":"hello-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Hello? Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yikes, a whole month has gone by and narry an upate about our garden.\u00a0 Remember that whole post I wrote about wanting to be accountable?\u00a0 Still do.\u00a0 Finding time to upload the photos and write the posts has been a bit of a problem with my work schedule.<\/p>\n

The garden is mostly dead at this point.\u00a0 Over Labor Day weekend I harvested the potatoes and was delighted that six plants produced a generous mixing bowl’s worth.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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I was so gleeful digging those up – I did almost nothing while they were growing, and they produced beautifully.\u00a0 We gave some away and ate the rest.\u00a0 They were delicious.\u00a0 We will be planting many, many more potatoes next year, likely in a much bigger space than the raised beds allow.<\/p>\n

Our experiment in attempting to ripen the tomatoes in a cardboard box with a banana?\u00a0 Totally worked.\u00a0 Which is excellent, because we had a lot of underripe tomatoes at the time of the hurricane.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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We’ve had the most amazing crops of tomatoes this year.\u00a0 In previous years, we did well with the cherry tomatoes, but full-sized tomatoes were always a problem.\u00a0 This year, bunches of Early Girls and Brandywines.\u00a0 In fact, we ate what might be the best specimen just the other week for dinner:<\/p>\n

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Ironically, we picked this one before our late-September trip to the Finger Lakes when it wasn’t quite ripe.\u00a0 Figuring it might ripen while we were away, we brought it with us.\u00a0 In it’s own special storage bowl, packed carefully with other groceries that we were transporting to our cabin in New York.\u00a0 And then we brought it home.\u00a0 Aparently, Brandywines enjoy travel and respond accordingly:<\/p>\n

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Next year, more Brandywines.\u00a0 Especially since they are not readily available at the local grocery store, which is one of the major reasons we grow vegetables – finding heirloom varieties of anything at grocery stores is next to impossible.\u00a0 The guy who wrote “The $64 Tomato” was right about how good\u00a0Brandywines taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yikes, a whole month has gone by and narry an upate about our garden.\u00a0 Remember that whole post I wrote about wanting to be accountable?\u00a0 Still do.\u00a0 Finding time to upload the photos and write the posts has been a bit of a problem with my work schedule. The garden is mostly dead at this … Continue reading Hello? Anyone?<\/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":[47,53],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-1z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}