{"id":945,"date":"2012-05-03T09:54:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suzistrauss.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2012-05-03T09:54:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:54:59","slug":"harvesting-our-home-grown-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2012\/05\/03\/harvesting-our-home-grown-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting Our Home Grown Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our upside down planters have really done wonders with the fruit plants we have. \u00a0I spent the afternoon\u00a0harvesting\u00a0our strawberries,\u00a0tomatoes, and even a bunch of peppers. \u00a0We ended up getting a huge crop of peppers. \u00a0I&#8217;m excited to try all of the recipes I&#8217;ve collected for all of these peppers. \u00a0We do seem to have more than we need though so I plan to give some away to our neighbors and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Our plants also produced a nice few baskets of tomatoes and strawberries. \u00a0Of course we&#8217;ll be gobbling most of the strawberries up before I have much time to do\u00a0anything\u00a0with them, but I told the kids and my husband that I really want to save some to make some jam and a nice strawberry rhubarb pie. \u00a0I know it will be hard for them to resist the\u00a0temptation\u00a0of eating the fresh and delicious berries but I promised them it would be worth their sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>I love seeing my family enjoy the work that I put into the garden. \u00a0I know exactly what they are eating when I grow it for them myself. \u00a0Next year I think I want plant more food for us to enjoy together. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure if I want to do planter boxes or if I want to dig up some of the garden for vegetables. \u00a0Maybe I&#8217;ll have the kids help me pick out what we should grow together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our upside down planters have really done wonders with the fruit plants we have. \u00a0I spent the afternoon\u00a0harvesting\u00a0our strawberries,\u00a0tomatoes, and even a bunch of peppers. \u00a0We ended up getting a huge crop of peppers. \u00a0I&#8217;m excited to try all of the recipes I&#8217;ve collected for all of these peppers. \u00a0We do seem to have more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/2012\/05\/03\/harvesting-our-home-grown-fruit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harvesting Our Home Grown Fruit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,15,27],"tags":[191,275,280,321,451,453],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-home-and-yard","category-outdoors","tag-crop","tag-fruit","tag-garden","tag-home-grown","tag-plant","tag-planters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/susiestrauss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}