{"id":783,"date":"2020-06-18T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/?p=783"},"modified":"2020-06-22T21:05:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T21:05:18","slug":"asparagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2020\/06\/18\/asparagus\/","title":{"rendered":"Asparagus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0281.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_0281-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Asparagus spears<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve been eating some asparagus. Not a huge amount but a good steady harvest of spears. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Problems though. Asparagus beetle has shown up. We\u2019re trying to control it by picking off the beetles and spraying water on the fronds that have larvae and eggs. We had these pests before, a few years ago. They seemed to be eliminated by cleaning up the beds after the fronds died completely during the winter. Maybe they\u2019re a cyclical pest? Or maybe they\u2019re living in the wood chips? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the raised beds are deteriorating and the productive roots seem to be migrating toward the edges of the bed, sometimes even outside the bed. We\u2019ll probably have to rejuvenate the plantings at some time in the future. Hard to do, as we\u2019ve just come to rely on it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been eating some asparagus. Not a huge amount but a good steady harvest of spears. Problems though. Asparagus beetle has shown up. We\u2019re trying to control it by picking off the beetles and spraying water on the fronds that have larvae and eggs. We had these pests before, a few years ago. They seemed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2020\/06\/18\/asparagus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Asparagus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asparagus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}