{"id":66,"date":"2006-02-10T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T23:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/testblog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2019-06-16T11:39:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:39:02","slug":"summer-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/summer-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"summer garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe little courtyard garden is going surprisingly well, I think the watering restrictions<\/a> are suiting it. The mandarin, for instance, used to only be watered when its leaves looked r..e..a..l..l..y droopy (about 10 times per year). But now I can’t just water it whenever, the mandarin gets watered at least once a week, usually twice. And it’s loving it! Heaps of new growth, at least 30cm I reckon, and lots of green mandarins waiting for winter. The lemonade tree’s also going well – it’s new this year from Digger’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the middle is my experiment with growing cucumbers and popcorn (and, yes, for those of you with well-trained eyes – at least 1 zucchini). Seed from my favourite sources – Eden<\/a>, Digger’s<\/a> (again) and New Gippsland<\/a>. I’m not sure whether they’ll keep growing well in pots, but at the moment they’re looking good. The idea is the cucumbers climb the popcorn, although really, I should have planted the popcorn first – so I might need a few stakes later. Sort of rushed putting them in because I decided I just couldn’t waste the summer, and I read that sweet corn viability drops quickly after a year. The pots are intended for some trees (olives and hazelnut I’m thinking) once the weather cools, but there’s no harm in a summer experiment!?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The little courtyard garden is going surprisingly well, I think the watering restrictions are suiting it. The mandarin, for instance, used to only be watered when its leaves looked r..e..a..l..l..y droopy (about 10 times per year). But now I can’t just water it whenever, the mandarin gets watered at least once a week, usually twice. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-gardens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}