{"id":1016,"date":"2008-11-22T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2008-11-22T11:59:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:59:18","slug":"lesson-learnt-turnipwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Lesson learnt, turnipwise&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sturnips-11-22.JPG' title='sturnips-11-22.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sturnips-11-22.JPG' alt='sturnips-11-22.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>My pitiful turnip crop, 2008. That&#8217;s mustard on the right.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I head eaten turnip and mustard greens for weeks and weeks, but last night the poor turnips froze. I wasn&#8217;t careful enough. Turnips don&#8217;t mind frost, but they sure didn&#8217;t like the hard freeze we had last night. According to my outdoor thermometer, the low temperature last night was 17.8 degrees F. That&#8217;s unusually cold for this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled all the turnips and threw away all the frozen turnip greens. The mustard greens didn&#8217;t freeze, but they&#8217;ve clearly stopped growing, so I pulled all the mustard too. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll clean up the plantbed and plant garlic in it.<\/p>\n<p>I must have had 20 or more messes of fresh mustard greens from my small raised bed. I&#8217;d have had even more, had the cat not frolicked repeatedly in that pretty black dirt.<\/p>\n<p>The frozen turnips will have to be cooked today instead of stored in the pumphouse for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sturnips2-11-22.JPG' title='sturnips2-11-22.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/sturnips2-11-22.JPG' alt='sturnips2-11-22.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Actually, after I cleaned them up, it appears that the turnips handled the freeze much better than the leaves.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pitiful turnip crop, 2008. That&#8217;s mustard on the right. I head eaten turnip and mustard greens for weeks and weeks, but last night the poor turnips froze. I wasn&#8217;t careful enough. Turnips don&#8217;t mind frost, but they sure didn&#8217;t like the hard freeze we had last night. According to my outdoor thermometer, the low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lesson learnt, turnipwise&#8230;&#8221;<\/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":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}