{"id":105,"date":"2007-08-19T19:11:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T18:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/files\/archives\/105"},"modified":"2009-05-12T18:21:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T17:21:32","slug":"harvesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/harvesting\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bad weather has returned today, but not before I was able to get up there and dig out the remaining spuds<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/spudsnew1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/spudsnew1.jpg\" alt=\"spuds - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/spudsnew2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/spudsnew2.jpg\" alt=\"spuds - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/spudsnew3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/spudsnew3.jpg\" alt=\"spuds - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was also pleased to see that a pumpkin had survived so far and had actually grown. It&#8217;s not as far along the line as I would have liked, but I am pleased that it has stuck two fingers up to the weather and got on with doing its business. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/pumpkin2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/pumpkin2.jpg\" alt=\"pumpkin - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/pumpkin1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/pumpkin1.jpg\" alt=\"pumpkin - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You also know I mentioned how my sweetcorn had survived the last bout of rampant rain? Well, it has managed to grow and produce cobs. I don&#8217;t think they will be massive &#8211; unlike my neighbour who planted his very early on, but at least they will be edible by the looks of it. The plants themselves are not very tall &#8211; dwarf I guess you could say &#8211; but nature has done its best to provide.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/scorn.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/scorn.jpg\" alt=\"sweetcorn - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/scorn2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/scorn2.jpg\" alt=\"sweetcorn - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weather has really thinned out my runners as well. Last year the plants were all bushy and produced a lot of pods. This year they are very thin and are doing their best to provide, but are thin on the ground. At least they are tender and tasty. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/rbeans1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/rbeans1.jpg\" alt=\"spuds - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/rbeans2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/rbeans2.jpg\" alt=\"spuds - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad weather has returned today, but not before I was able to get up there and dig out the remaining spuds I was also pleased to see that a pumpkin had survived so far and had actually grown. It&#8217;s not as far along the line as I would have liked, but I am pleased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"views":357,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}