{"id":1813,"date":"2011-07-11T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T16:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2011-07-11T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T16:17:26","slug":"zucchini-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"Zucchini Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1814\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/most-zucchini-plants.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1814\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1814\" title=\"Small Zucchini Plants\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/most-zucchini-plants.png\" alt=\"Small Zucchini Plants\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small Zucchini Plants<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most of my zucchini plants are quite a bit behind schedule, and it shows. These plants have been the victim of ground hogs, which is a new arch-nemesis for me as well. In the past there was only one ground hog, and he didn&#8217;t spend much time in the garden. This year I&#8217;ve spotted little ground hogs, and so my garden has a whole family of munching beasts to deal with. I&#8217;m going to fight back with every item in my arsenal, but this time I used Miracle Grow. I&#8217;m hoping a &#8220;shot in the arm&#8221; or heavy dose of nutrients will push these plants to out grow the hogs appetite. I&#8217;m also aiming the sprinkler at my plants which seem to need the most care: my cucumbers and zucchini.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1815\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/early-harvest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1815\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1815\" title=\"Early Harvest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/early-harvest.png\" alt=\"Early Harvest\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early Harvest<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With all this chaos in the zucchini patch, I wasn&#8217;t expecting to take this picture. I recruited Davie and my niece to help me pick the peas in this photo, and while we were in the area, I decided to check on the plants which invaded my strawberry patch. That&#8217;s when I discovered this treasure trove of green squash.\u00a0 In the top right corner, I found my first conjoined squash, which looks really neat. In the bottom left are a few young radishes we picked to give our salad some flavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of my zucchini plants are quite a bit behind schedule, and it shows. These plants have been the victim of ground hogs, which is a new arch-nemesis for me as well. In the past there was only one ground &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1813\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[87,99,135],"tags":[738],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}