{"id":266,"date":"2020-05-25T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=266"},"modified":"2020-05-25T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T18:08:42","slug":"cucumbers-well-they-arent-cucumbers-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Cucumbers. Well, they aren&#8217;t cucumbers, yet&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-25-10.30.28.jpg\" alt=\"Brand-new cucumber plants. To be planted and then lovingly nurtured... And then who knows what will come next?\" class=\"wp-image-267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-25-10.30.28.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-25-10.30.28-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-25-10.30.28-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-25-10.30.28-705x529.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>All 6 seeds germinated. I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll do with 6 cucumber plants, aside from have a lot of cucumbers&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">My mother-in-law gave us some cucumber seeds. I planted 6 of them, and lo and behold, all 6 have germinated. I was asked to make (and I did) a sort of wooden obelisk (photo to come later, when it isn&#8217;t pouring with rain outside) upon which the cucumber plants can grow. The idea is that the cucumbers themselves will be kept out of the dirt and won&#8217;t be as likely to be ravaged by slugs and the like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll have lots of cucumbers. Apparently these plants are rather prolific. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then what? It&#8217;s kinda like the proverbial zucchini plant. How do you know your neighbour has a zucchini plant? Well, they&#8217;ll arrive on a daily basis with gourds a-plenty. I fear cucumber is the same way, but you can&#8217;t grill them on the barbecue, you can&#8217;t make muffins or loaf out of them&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pickles? Gherkins? Lots of salads? Not really sure what I&#8217;ll do if I have an embarrassment of cucumber riches, but I&#8217;ll deal with that if and when it happens. Currently, they&#8217;re about an inch high, so I best not get ahead of myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother-in-law gave us some cucumber seeds. I planted 6 of them, and lo and behold, all 6 have germinated. I was asked to make (and I did) a sort of wooden obelisk (photo to come later, when it isn&#8217;t pouring with rain outside) upon which the cucumber plants can grow. The idea is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66,53,64],"tags":[67,69,68,54,70],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-grow","category-organic","category-vegetables","tag-cucumber","tag-garden","tag-grow","tag-organic","tag-seeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}