{"id":364,"date":"2019-08-23T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/?p=364"},"modified":"2019-08-23T08:31:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T08:31:44","slug":"garden-work-mid-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2019\/08\/23\/garden-work-mid-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden work mid-August"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it still mid-August? A lot has happened. We harvested the fava beans on August 11. Had a big party, the third annual, to shuck the beans. I have three small freezer bags of leftovers, which is good. I didn’t take any pictures, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

We have picked over 20 pounds of blueberries, all in the orchard except for two containers harvested atop Schoodic. I know that should be quarts, next year I’ll switch to the more typical measurement.<\/p>\n

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Blueberries in orchard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are still waiting for the Reliance peaches to ripen. Last year they were all taken, probably by squirrels. This year we took more precautions (netting around the trunk). Sam propped up the heavy branches. They have great color, but are still quite hard.<\/p>\n

Peach tree with branches propped<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Reliance peaches ripening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sam’s working on improving the orchard fencing. Too many deer are getting in there.<\/p>\n

Orchard fence improvements<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He also added two more raised beds in the hoophouse. Over the next few days I’ll plant some fall and winter greens in them. The peppers and eggplants in the older beds are growing but not exuberantly, but the basil in there is doing great. We had to protect those beds from deer who came to munch one variety of pepper when we opened the roof to the sun and rain.<\/p>\n

Hoophouse with two new raised beds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m picking green beans almost daily in the main garden. Also sowed some fall seeds in empty spots.<\/p>\n

Seedling carrots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Newly planted lettuces framed by Bianca\u2019s white runner bean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fava bean area freed up, so we put up a pea trellis there. Also planted cilantro, broccoli rabe, and spinach in that area.<\/p>\n

Newly planted fava bean area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Harvesting lots of food: beets, cucumbers, a few ripe tomatoes, lettuce, escarole, radicchio, carrots, costata romanesca zucchini, kale, chard, dill, artichokes, broccoli, Savoy cabbage, fingerlings, strawberries, blackberries. Coming along: squashes, a few ears of corn, cabbage, soybeans, pattypan squash, lots of tomatoes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it still mid-August? A lot has happened. We harvested the fava beans on August 11. Had a big party, the third annual, to shuck the beans. I have three small freezer bags of leftovers, which is good. I didn’t take any pictures, unfortunately. We have picked over 20 pounds of blueberries, all in the… Continue reading Garden work mid-August<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,12,36,33,75,11,3,67,58,60,65,44,10,16,73,74,21,59,15,61,34,41,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artichokes","category-beets","category-blackberries","category-blueberries","category-broccoli-rabe","category-carrots","category-cilantro","category-corn","category-cucumber","category-dill","category-escarole","category-fava","category-kale","category-lettuce","category-peaches","category-peas","category-potatoes","category-soybeans","category-spinach","category-squash","category-strawberries","category-tomatoes","category-white-runner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}