{"id":3398,"date":"2011-07-27T08:19:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T13:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3398"},"modified":"2011-07-27T08:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T13:19:34","slug":"the-miracle-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3398","title":{"rendered":"The miracle of rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/S-garden-after-rain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/S-garden-after-rain.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-garden-after-rain\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four days ago, .4 inch of rain fell. The day after that, there was another .4 inch. That was enough rain to greatly revive the garden. Tomatoes ripened on the vine that otherwise would have rotted on the vine. The corn freshened. The pumpkins and melons resumed their growth. There may even be more peppers if the rain continues.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably scald the tomatoes to remove the skins, then freeze them. As for the pumpkin, I couldn&#8217;t possibly eat a whole pumpkin pie. Even though it&#8217;s a shame not to use the pumpkin fresh, I&#8217;ll probably cook it and freeze it and use it later when I have company. I have at least two more pumpkins that I left on the vine, plus a couple of watermelons and canteloupes. I planted only two watermelon plants and two canteloupe plants, as an experiment. They&#8217;ve done amazingly well, so next year I&#8217;ll plant more than two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four days ago, .4 inch of rain fell. The day after that, there was another .4 inch. That was enough rain to greatly revive the garden. Tomatoes ripened on the vine that otherwise would have rotted on the vine. The corn freshened. The pumpkins and melons resumed their growth. There may even be more peppers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The miracle of rain&#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-3398","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\/3398","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=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}