{"id":1042,"date":"2020-09-02T19:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2020-09-02T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:05:25","slug":"beginning-of-september-at-cross-road-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2020\/09\/02\/beginning-of-september-at-cross-road-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning of September at Cross Road Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The garden is definitely waning, looking dry and scruffy around the edges. I\u2019m still harvesting a lot of food and more to come this month. On my photo-taking expedition this afternoon, individual plants and groupings of plants caught my eye with their beauty. And a few fine specimens of vegetables ready to harvest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Massive sunflower bouquet sprinkles our table with pollen <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I harvested some dill seed today. Nice to grow your own for next summer\u2019s pickles. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hoophouse. Basil and tomatillo and a few eggplants remain, rest of space is transitioning to fall planting. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Front of garden with tomato row at right and indomitable black zucchini plant at left (slowing down now). I had to remove the costata romanesca zucchini, it was overwhelming. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A patty pan grown a bit large. Have to eat these faster. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A fine patch of kale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Borage blossoms, such a sweet blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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What\u2019s in here? A mixed row. Some tomatoes, leaf celery, dill, arugula, beets, leeks, new spinach, kale…Pulled up the bygone cilantro that was everywhere. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fall crop in former fava bean patch. Carrots, broccoli, and escarole \u201cEros\u201d planted too close together and all growing well. A few fall peas are starting at the back. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I love a massive red cabbage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Scruffy broccoli row. Still getting some side shoots. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Potato row – tops are dead, have yet to dig. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Horseradish and tomato row. Still canning quarts of sauce – 15 so far. I dug out \u201call\u201d the horseradish last year and it\u2019s back, bigger and more vigorous than ever. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Squash tunnel, featuring some Red Kuri . One is damaged with a fence mark. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Aerial squash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cDakota Dessert\u201d squash. I was unable to resist the seed catalog description. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Still getting a lot of cucumbers. Have canned 8 pints of pickles and fermented 6 pints so far.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Under corner trellis. Carrots and kale, some overgrown and stunted lettuce. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fruit yard. Tango cosmos, another dye plant – love this vibrant orange bloom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dyer\u2019s coreopsis in the dye garden. I got some beautiful bronze oranges on silk fabric and thread from it. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grapes ripening unevenly. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The upper storey is decorated with sunflowers and Wild Goldenglow .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A nice color combination in the herb bed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Berggarten sage and monarda, another nice color combination in the herb bed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s it for now. Gotta be something I should be doing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The garden is definitely waning, looking dry and scruffy around the edges. I\u2019m still harvesting a lot of food and more to come this month. On my photo-taking expedition this afternoon, individual plants and groupings of plants caught my eye with their beauty. And a few fine specimens of vegetables ready to harvest. And that\u2019s… Continue reading Beginning of September at Cross Road Gardens<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-overview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}