{"id":355,"date":"2023-01-24T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trippyacres.wordpress.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2023-02-25T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:52:36","slug":"tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Scientific Name<\/strong><\/td><td><em>Solanum lycopersicum<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Days<\/strong><\/td><td>60-100<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Varieties We Grow<\/strong><\/td><td>Amish Paste, Beefsteak, Cherokee Purple, Cherry Belle, Rutgers, others&#8230;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Notes<\/strong><\/td><td>Tomatoes take a lot of maintenance to grow.  They require trellising and manually training them up the trellis; leaves should be pruned; nutrition and irrigation need to be consistent; plants are really prone to blight and other diseases &#8211; it&#8217;s not a matter of &#8220;if&#8221; but &#8220;when&#8221; they&#8217;ll get it.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Battle of the Bugs<\/strong><\/td><td>Tomato and tobacco hornworms are troublesome, but the worst bugs we&#8217;ve faced with our tomato plants so far are the army worms.  They destroy fruits quite efficiently.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Fun Fact<\/strong><\/td><td>Some people are allergic to tomato plants and get a contact dermatitis (or worse) reaction after touching the leaves.  Bummer!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Don&#8217;t Waste It!<\/strong><\/td><td>If you love tomatoes, you already know how best to enjoy them \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_0439.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-615\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Name Solanum lycopersicum Growing Days 60-100 Varieties We Grow Amish Paste, Beefsteak, Cherokee Purple, Cherry Belle, Rutgers, others&#8230; Growing Notes Tomatoes take a lot of maintenance to grow. They require trellising and manually training them up the trellis; leaves should be pruned; nutrition and irrigation need to be consistent; plants are really prone to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/tomatoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tomatoes<\/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-355","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\/355","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=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}