{"id":337,"date":"2023-01-22T10:08:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trippyacres.wordpress.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2023-02-25T11:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:36:52","slug":"melons-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/melons-watermelon\/","title":{"rendered":"Melons &#8212; Watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Scientific Name<\/strong><\/td><td><em>Citrullus lanatus<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Days<\/strong><\/td><td>70-100<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Varieties We Grow<\/strong><\/td><td>Sugar Baby<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Notes<\/strong><\/td><td>One of the trickiest times is figuring out when to harvest a watermelon.  We use the tendril method&#8230;when the tendril immediately above the fruit is browned, it&#8217;s time to pick that fruit and hope it&#8217;s ripe, but not overripe!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Battle of the Bugs<\/strong><\/td><td>Cucumber beetles and squash vine borers will go after watermelon vines.  They are the worst pests!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Fun Fact<\/strong><\/td><td>Watermelons are 90% water so they are aptly named!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Don&#8217;t Waste It!<\/strong><\/td><td>Duh&#8230;these are way too delicious to waste!<\/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_0509.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-621\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Name Citrullus lanatus Growing Days 70-100 Varieties We Grow Sugar Baby Growing Notes One of the trickiest times is figuring out when to harvest a watermelon. We use the tendril method&#8230;when the tendril immediately above the fruit is browned, it&#8217;s time to pick that fruit and hope it&#8217;s ripe, but not overripe! Battle of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/melons-watermelon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melons &#8212; Watermelon<\/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-337","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\/337","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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}