{"id":2618,"date":"2015-05-28T13:32:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2015-07-31T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:19:01","slug":"ay-yai-yai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2618","title":{"rendered":"Ay, Yai, Yai!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After talking to several local farmers and kitchen gardeners, I’ve learned to be even more grateful for a flourishing garden.\u00a0 Many area gardeners live on low-lying\u00a0 land which, after our daily HEAVY rains, is boggy and swampy.\u00a0 Their gardens have rotted.\u00a0 I’m so sad for their wasted work, expense and loss of delicious harvests.<\/p>\n

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Overachieving Roma tomato plant<\/p><\/div>\n

We live on a sandy, silt hill.\u00a0 In some spots of our 6 acres we can find a thin layer of clay when we dig 4-6 foot.\u00a0 In other spots, we’ve dug up to 10 foot and found only more sand.\u00a0 Water seeps through the sand quickly so puddles don’t form.\u00a0 Unfortunately, nutrients also seep quickly.\u00a0 This is why we add compost each year.<\/p>\n

Here is a photo (complete with camera strap and old lady hand) of one of our Roma tomato plants.\u00a0 We’ve planted 2 dozen and most are equally productive.\u00a0 Pardon the weeds as it’s been too rainy to get out with the tiller to control them.\u00a0 Production doesn’t appear affected!\u00a0 It’s CRAZY!\u00a0 If I didn’t know better, I’d say the plant is on steroids…. but I know better.\u00a0 We are organic<\/span> gardeners.\u00a0 Though it’s difficult to tell in this photo, this plant is only about 3′ tall.\u00a0 Because of the angle, the fruit looks smaller than reality.\u00a0 They are mature Roma tomato size and only need some red before they are ready to harvest.\u00a0 The canning jars are ready and waiting!<\/p>\n

We also have baby bell peppers, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, potatoes and eggplant.\u00a0 I’m continuing to harvest snow peas each day and by the look of all the blossoms on our Purple Hulls and Lady Creams, we’ll have peas to shell soon.\u00a0 We ate our first yellow squash last night for dinner.\u00a0 I sliced and steamed it along with snow peas, mushrooms, carrots and green onion.\u00a0 DEEEElicious!<\/p>\n

During the day, between garden and house duties, I continue quilting the Split-16 queen+ quilt border.\u00a0 I’m down to the last side so the end is in sight.\u00a0 At night after dinner, I work on the Wonky Stars sofa quilt.\u00a0 It’s also complete except for part of the border.\u00a0 It’s pretty exciting having 2 quilts nearing completion at the same time.\u00a0 Hmmmm, wondering what I’ll do next!<\/p>\n

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After talking to several local farmers and kitchen gardeners, I’ve learned to be even more grateful for a flourishing garden.\u00a0 Many area gardeners live on low-lying\u00a0 land which, after our daily HEAVY rains, is boggy and swampy.\u00a0 Their gardens have rotted.\u00a0 I’m so sad for their wasted work, expense and loss of delicious harvests. We (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}