{"id":844,"date":"2020-07-03T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/?p=844"},"modified":"2020-07-05T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T15:08:21","slug":"hardy-kiwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2020\/07\/03\/hardy-kiwi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardy Kiwi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have a few hardy kiwi vines growing up over the deck on an arbor. <\/p>\n\n\n\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\/07\/img_0427.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_0427.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_0427-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Working on the kiwi vines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years ago a porcupine got up there in the spring and pruned the vines severely. We wrapped chicken wire around the posts and it put a stop to that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year Sam is training the increasingly lush vines to cover bare spots. He added some bracing in the arbor to reduce the size of the gaps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have never had kiwi fruits, but we have lots of blossoms. Maybe we are lacking a male plant. <\/p>\n\n\n\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\/07\/img_0428.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_0428.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_0428-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Kiwi blossoms and bumblebee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a few hardy kiwi vines growing up over the deck on an arbor. Two years ago a porcupine got up there in the spring and pruned the vines severely. We wrapped chicken wire around the posts and it put a stop to that. This year Sam is training the increasingly lush vines to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2020\/07\/03\/hardy-kiwi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hardy Kiwi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kiwi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}