{"id":578,"date":"2010-05-30T21:10:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T02:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2010-05-30T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T02:10:51","slug":"a-rainbow-of-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"A rainbow of tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may have snowed less than three weeks ago, but late May is the time for tomatoes &#8211; cross your fingers for me, okay? I went out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taitfarmfoods.com\/\">Tait Farm<\/a> last week for my plants. I like the idea of starting my own seeds, but I&#8217;ve never had good luck with them, and the cat eats my seedlings. Tait Farm has excellent plants. I spent a long time walking up and down the row of heirloom tomato plants, reading all the descriptions and reminding myself that I <i>do not<\/i> have room for one of each. I settled on six heirloom tomatoes of all different sizes and shapes and colors: Brandywine, Great White, Yellow Pear, Red Pear, Cherokee Black, and Lime Green. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/plants20100524.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The World&#8217;s Smallest Pea Patch has grown quite a bit: it&#8217;s now about four times the size, with enough space to give all the new plants a comfortable home.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/garden20100524.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist some other things while I was picking out plants. There are three hot pepper plants, and half a dozen herbs: two parsley and an oregano, a regular basil plant and two interesting ones: a Greek columnar basil visible at the back of the bed in the above photo, and this lovely African Blue Basil. I&#8217;m looking forward to pretty pesto with my rainbow of tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/basil20100524.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I also forsee pie in my future.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/rhubarb20100524.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/strawberries20100524.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Everything seems to be settling in nicely. I should even get a strawberry in the next day or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may have snowed less than three weeks ago, but late May is the time for tomatoes &#8211; cross your fingers for me, okay? I went out to Tait Farm last week for my plants. I like the idea of starting my own seeds, but I&#8217;ve never had good luck with them, and the cat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}