{"id":894,"date":"2011-09-08T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=894"},"modified":"2011-09-02T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:53:18","slug":"grapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Grapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_895\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCF1758.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-895\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-895\" title=\"DSCF1758\" src=\"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCF1758-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCF1758-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DSCF1758-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concord Grapes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We planted Concord Grapes 3 years ago and this is the first year we have had grapes.\u00a0 Grapes usually have one season that they establish themselves and then produce the next.\u00a0 Why did it take us 3 seasons?\u00a0 We had an early frost last year that killed all the growth and the plant had to grow back from the roots.\u00a0 We now know that grapes are very sensitive and need a lot of tender care if you want any grapes.\u00a0 Last fall we mulched heavily around the vine and coved it in the spring if there was any chance of frost.\u00a0 We only have 6 clumps of grapes this year but we are happy to just have grapes.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t mind.\u00a0 I need a juicer first so I can make jelly and juice.\u00a0 This gives me at least another season to acquire the equipment before a big crop.\u00a0 We haven&#8217;t picked them yet because you&#8217;re supposed to wait until the first frost for the sugars to set like you do for apples.\u00a0 Plus they have just barely started to turn purple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We planted Concord Grapes 3 years ago and this is the first year we have had grapes.\u00a0 Grapes usually have one season that they establish themselves and then produce the next.\u00a0 Why did it take us 3 seasons?\u00a0 We had an early frost last year that killed all the growth and the plant had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,58,16],"tags":[28,59,25,17],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-health","category-projects","tag-fruits","tag-garden","tag-health","tag-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}