{"id":320,"date":"2023-01-20T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trippyacres.wordpress.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2023-02-25T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:31:16","slug":"cucumbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/cucumbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cucumbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Scientific Name<\/strong><\/td><td><em>Cucumis sativus<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Days<\/strong><\/td><td>60-70<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Varieties We Grow<\/strong><\/td><td>Marketmore, Manny (F1), Boston Pickling<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Notes<\/strong><\/td><td>Cucumbers are vining plants, so grow them on a trellis.  If it gets very hot and dry, they might taste a little bitter, so keep them well watered if you can!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Battle of the Bugs<\/strong><\/td><td>Our nemesis&#8230;the cucumber beetle!  These little buggers fly off before you can catch them.  They spread a disease (cucumber mosaic virus) that takes out the entire plant and also spreads.  It&#8217;s nasty and disheartening because that plant needs to be pulled and discarded right away.  Total loss.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Fun Fact<\/strong><\/td><td>A cucumber is actually a fruit!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Don&#8217;t Waste It!<\/strong><\/td><td>Eat the skin \ud83d\ude42<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_7702.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-649\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Name Cucumis sativus Growing Days 60-70 Varieties We Grow Marketmore, Manny (F1), Boston Pickling Growing Notes Cucumbers are vining plants, so grow them on a trellis. If it gets very hot and dry, they might taste a little bitter, so keep them well watered if you can! Battle of the Bugs Our nemesis&#8230;the cucumber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/cucumbers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cucumbers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-we-grow","no-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}