{"id":99,"date":"2011-08-29T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2011-08-29T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:02:00","slug":"irene-1-tomatoes-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Irene 1, tomatoes -1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\ufeffSo, the hurricane has come and gone, and we appear to have gotten off with a few downed small branches, a ton of leaves, and a semi-flooded garden.\u00a0 Irene did get a tomato, though. <\/p>\n

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Right there in the middle, on the left of the fence post<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Which is not a terrible thing, frankly.\u00a0 Stella Caroline<\/a> has a tree down on her deck.\u00a0 Midway through the storm J went out to look at the corn – apparently about a dozen stalks were down at that point.\u00a0 We expected heavy losses from the garden, so we picked anything that looked vaguely ripe on Saturday.\u00a0 There was a lot of stuff:<\/p>\n

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We picked two huge bowls of early girl and brandywine tomatoes, three boxes of sungolds, peas, eggplants, lettuce, cucumbers, peppers, summer squash, strawberries (take that, chipmunk!)\u00a0and parsley and basil.\u00a0 Then I spent an hour washing produce.\u00a0 Because so many of the tomatoes aren’t ripe, we put them in a single layer in cardboard boxes with a banana in each box to help ripen them.\u00a0 (Fruit gives off a gas that causes produce to ripen faster, which is why you should never keep the two together in the veggie drawer in your fridge.\u00a0 J found the banana trick on the internet, and we thought, why not?\u00a0 What do we have to lose, other than a lot of underripe tomatoes?)\u00a0 We dragged everything out of our yard, off our deck and front porch, and tied the tomato cages to each other and the fence.\u00a0 We staked the eggplants and peppers (which are producing nicely) and crossed our fingers.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

That evening, our favorite garden supervisor came to visit us, but we thought he went home (he has 24-hour access to the basement through a window at his house) until we looked out the front windows\u00a0Sunday morning and saw him huddled on our front porch in the rain, yowling.\u00a0 Because we’re saps, we let him in, and he\u00a0happily snoozed on our sunporch most of Sunday, after being toweled off and given a lap to sit in and an ear scratch for the indignities of Irene:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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He is totally trying to move in.\u00a0 We’re resisting, particularly since he doesn’t do anything to pull his weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\ufeffSo, the hurricane has come and gone, and we appear to have gotten off with a few downed small branches, a ton of leaves, and a semi-flooded garden.\u00a0 Irene did get a tomato, though. \ufeff\ufeff Right there in the middle, on the left of the fence post Which is not a terrible thing, frankly.\u00a0 Stella … Continue reading Irene 1, tomatoes -1<\/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":[55,37],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-1B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}