{"id":22376,"date":"2021-11-20T10:53:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=22376"},"modified":"2021-11-20T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T15:56:18","slug":"winter-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=22376","title":{"rendered":"Winter greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/W-winter-greens.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/W-winter-greens.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/W-winter-greens-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/W-winter-greens-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I wish I had started experimenting with winter greens in a cold frame a long time ago. This mustard was planted in early October and is now ready to start picking. I&#8217;ve decided to make a little ritual of it, though, and have the first winter mustard on Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, I&#8217;ve also got some mustard growing outside the cold frame. The mustard inside the cold frame has grown almost twice as fast. Plus, the outside mustard has started to toughen a bit and looks a little shabby and weathered. Next year, I think I&#8217;ll expand the winter garden and see what I can do. One very agreeable difference, compared with summer gardening, is that there are no bugs, no briars, and no heat and humidity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had started experimenting with winter greens in a cold frame a long time ago. This mustard was planted in early October and is now ready to start picking. I&#8217;ve decided to make a little ritual of it, though, and have the first winter mustard on Thanksgiving. For comparison, I&#8217;ve also got some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=22376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winter greens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22376","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\/22376","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=22376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22382,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22376\/revisions\/22382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}