{"id":1205,"date":"2013-06-29T09:44:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T13:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2013-06-29T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T14:10:28","slug":"garen-update-time-to-start-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Garden Update: Time to start eating!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes,
\nit is a triumph of hope over experience.
\n — Marina Schinz<\/em><\/h4>\n
\"Garden<\/a>

Garden bounty! Swiss chard, black seeded lettuce, summer squash and the first (cherry) tomato of the season, June 28, 2013. (Click image for larger version)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Just a quick update today, I was just too busy this past week to post the June 23 (below)<\/em> image for the garden, and I’ll have a new one in the next few days. The enjoyment of the fruits of my labor is beginning in earnest, I\u2019m eating salads on a regular basis with the Black Seeded Lettuce<\/a>, remaining radishes, and some ‘baby’ Sweet Treat Carrots<\/a> as I thin them. And I’m harvesting some of the Neon Lights Mix Swiss Chard<\/a> and Ruby Red Swiss Chard<\/a> (see above photo)<\/em> as I thin the plants, anticipating a tasty sauteed treat<\/a> for dinner tonight!<\/p>\n

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I also harvested the first Black Beauty Summer Squash<\/a>, and there are a number of others setting fruit, as well as quite a few Early Prolific Straightneck Squash<\/a>. Still no sign of the dreaded\u00a0squash bugs<\/a> and striped cucumber beetles<\/a>\u00a0 \u2013 looks like my proactive spraying with Garden Safe Fungicide 3<\/a> (fungicide\/insecticide\/miticide) has kept them at bay! And the Early Acorn Squash<\/a> and Waltham Butternut Squash<\/a> are blooming like crazy and setting many fruit \u2013 fingers crossed for a big crop for storage and fall\/winter eating.<\/p>\n

Oh, and it’s official. This has been the wettest June in recorded history<\/a> for New Jersey. Which, as I mentioned in a previous post<\/a>, has caused some problems, most notably to the radishes and tomatoes. But the past week has been mid- to upper-80’s for daily high temps, and upper 60’s overnight – garden growing weather!<\/p>\n

It’s summer in New Jersey, and the garden eating is getting good!<\/p>\n

\"Plot<\/a>

Plot #63, Roseville Community Garden<\/a> on June 23, 2013. (Click image for larger version)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience. — Marina Schinz <\/p>\n

Garden bounty! Swiss chard, black seeded lettuce, summer squash and the first (cherry) tomato of the season, June 28, 2013. (Click image for larger version)<\/p>\n

Just a quick update today, I was just too busy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[112,111,109,108,72],"tags":[127,128,114,170,113,135,122],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nL7w-jr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northbyram.org\/highlands\/newsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}