{"id":65,"date":"2009-06-15T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/journal\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-06-15T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T11:55:00","slug":"when-it-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/hayloft\/when-it-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"When it Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been drowning in the city, our farm was weathering a 10-day drought in the Catskills&#8211;not a drop of rain for the first week and a half of June. But we seem to be sitting on a series of springs up there, and our plants have starting coming up even without rain: beet greens are shin-high, peas are begining to creep up the trellises, and radishes are literally popping out of the ground.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/farm\/imgs\/june_09\/rows.jpg\" alt=\"beets\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/farm\/imgs\/june_09\/peas.jpg\" alt=\"peas\" \/><br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got some of those radishes and bushels of lettuces in the kitchen this week&#8211;heritage Tom Thumb lettuce, sturdy Parris Island romaine, arugula and mustard greens that survived an attack of the flea beetle in addition to that dry spell.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/farm\/imgs\/june_09\/haul.jpg\" alt=\"first take\" \/><br \/>\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re off to the races, at any rate: now we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just trying to get the fence up before the deer notice the salad bar we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve grown them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been drowning in the city, our farm was weathering a 10-day drought in the Catskills&#8211;not a drop of rain for the first week and a half of June. But we seem to be sitting on a series of springs up there, and our plants have starting coming up even without rain: beet greens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-farm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/hayloft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/hayloft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/hayloft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/hayloft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/hayloft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/hayloft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/hayloft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/hayloft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pigandegg.com\/hayloft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}