{"id":2368,"date":"2021-10-28T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2021-10-31T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T16:05:34","slug":"potting-up-and-other-fall-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2021\/10\/28\/potting-up-and-other-fall-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Potting up and other fall activities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Taking advantage of some nice weather to do some outdoor work today. I dug up some herbs for moving inside – rosemary, thyme, and a little parsley. The angel wing begonia has become extravagantly showy in its pot during the summer. It may decline once moved inside. I can’t believe it became so happy outdoors this summer. This plant originally came from Patrick Smith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rosemary, thyme, parsley and angel wing begonia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I planted some lemon balm in the hole left by one of the rosemary plants. This came from Roberta, in trade for some comfrey and rudbeckia laciniata I gave her. It doesn’t look like much now, but I’m hoping it will fill in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Planted lemon balm from Roberta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Horseradish stalks dried and saved from 2020 were put back to soak in the cement mixing trough. I’m not looking forward to scraping them, but I want the fiber enough that I’ve saved them for a whole year waiting for the right time to process them. I think the time has come. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dried horseradish ribs rehydrating in preparation for scraping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally, another crafty project – braiding onions. I’ve never done this before, mostly because I don’t preserve stems on my onions and I don’t grow soft-neck garlic. But I reserved a few with stems this year so I could give it a try. Start with three at the base and add in the center and at the sides as you braid the stems upwards. Pretty easy, but I didn’t do a good job and my braid broke. It held together long enough for a photo though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Onion braid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking advantage of some nice weather to do some outdoor work today. I dug up some herbs for moving inside – rosemary, thyme, and a little parsley. The angel wing begonia has become extravagantly showy in its pot during the summer. It may decline once moved inside. I can’t believe it became so happy outdoors… Continue reading Potting up and other fall activities<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,140,206,23,205,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herbs","category-horseradish","category-lemon-balm","category-parsley","category-rosemary","category-thyme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}