{"id":570,"date":"2010-06-04T13:41:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T18:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2010-06-04T13:41:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T18:41:44","slug":"gotta-love-those-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Gotta Love those Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_571\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/potato.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-571\" class=\"size-full wp-image-571\" title=\"Volunteer Potato\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/potato.png\" alt=\"Volunteer Potato\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteer Potato<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Along with the endless number of volunteer turnips, and a few volunteer cucumbers and squash, I have a volunteer potato. It\u00a0must be a Yukon Gold, because I haven&#8217;t planted anything else in this section of the garden. It&#8217;s doing rather well, which is not what I would have imagined. These tubbers survived the one bottom plow, as well as two encounters or more with the roto-tiller. I&#8217;ve poked around in the dirt a bit, and noticed the spud it sprang from was just the right size, about 2 inches square.<\/p>\n<p>This year I&#8217;ve even had a volunteer tomato, one which I hope to save the seeds from. It could be one of 20 + varieties that I grew in that section of the garden, but I&#8217;m really hoping for a Roma or San Marzano. Either way, If I keep saving seeds from self starting tomatoes, I should be able to encourage the plants to be more cold hardy, or at least a seed that can start itself as soon as the weather is ready. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to plant your tomato seeds directly into the garden in the fall ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the endless number of volunteer turnips, and a few volunteer cucumbers and squash, I have a volunteer potato. It\u00a0must be a Yukon Gold, because I haven&#8217;t planted anything else in this section of the garden. It&#8217;s doing rather &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=570\">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":[94],"tags":[721,506,737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}