{"id":387,"date":"2023-01-22T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trippyacres.wordpress.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2023-02-25T18:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T00:38:28","slug":"potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Scientific Name<\/strong><\/td><td><em>Solanum tuberosum<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Days<\/strong><\/td><td>120<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Varieties We Grow<\/strong><\/td><td>Yukon Gold, Kennebec, Red<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Notes<\/strong><\/td><td> Plant cut potatoes that have 1-2 eyes on them.  Hill potatoes by mounding them with soil or mulch so the potatoes aren&#8217;t exposed to any light.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Battle of the Bugs<\/strong><\/td><td>Colorado Potato Beetles!  We hand pick them off of the leaves and try to smush the eggs before they create the next generation.  It&#8217;s a battle!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Fun Fact<\/strong><\/td><td>Potatoes are in the same family as tomatoes&#8230;nightshade.  Bonus fun fact&#8230;new potatoes are really just immature potatoes.  When the plant flowers, the new potatoes are generally ready to harvest.  Leave &#8217;em alone and they&#8217;ll get bigger!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Don&#8217;t Waste It!<\/strong><\/td><td><br>Bake, roast, boil&#8230;yum yum yum!<\/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_2814.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-550\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Name Solanum tuberosum Growing Days 120 Varieties We Grow Yukon Gold, Kennebec, Red Growing Notes Plant cut potatoes that have 1-2 eyes on them. Hill potatoes by mounding them with soil or mulch so the potatoes aren&#8217;t exposed to any light. Battle of the Bugs Colorado Potato Beetles! We hand pick them off of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/22\/potatoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Potatoes<\/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-387","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\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}