{"id":3335,"date":"2011-07-05T10:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T15:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2011-07-05T10:49:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T15:49:17","slug":"baby-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3335","title":{"rendered":"Baby pumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/A-baby-pumpkin-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/A-baby-pumpkin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A-baby-pumpkin-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something magical about pumpkins. I&#8217;ve never grown pumpkins before, but I&#8217;ve wanted to for years. I thought they might be hard to grow, and they&#8217;re said to be heavy feeders. But the vines from my two pumpkin plants are now the biggest, most vigorous plants in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s rain helped the garden get through the hot, dry week that followed, with temperatures over 95. Yesterday evening, 1.1 inches of rain fell. I took advantage of the soft ground to do some weeding and hoeing this morning. The forecast for the next five days looks good &#8212; pretty good chances of rain and normal temperatures in the upper 80s.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the drought, the garden has supplied 99 percent of my fresh food for over two months. I hardly ever go to the grocery store these days. I had been planning to make my monthly trip to Whole Foods this week, but I realized that there really isn&#8217;t anything I have to have, so I&#8217;ll wait until I run out of half and half or something. For those of us who use a lot of fresh produce, I can definitely testify that a garden saves a bunch of money.<\/p>\n<p>As for the pumpkins: pumpkin pie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something magical about pumpkins. I&#8217;ve never grown pumpkins before, but I&#8217;ve wanted to for years. I thought they might be hard to grow, and they&#8217;re said to be heavy feeders. But the vines from my two pumpkin plants are now the biggest, most vigorous plants in the garden. Last week&#8217;s rain helped the garden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baby pumpkin&#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-3335","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\/3335","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=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}