{"id":1480,"date":"2015-01-04T13:23:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2015-01-04T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T21:23:55","slug":"new-years-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/2015\/01\/04\/new-years-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not supposed to freeze here. Isn’t that the whole point of living (somewhat) close to the coast in California? I thought so. That’s what I signed up for. But apparently, I was wrong. While we were in San Diego over Christmas and New Year’s, our garden froze. It wasn’t a slight dip below 32 degrees. No, it went way down into the mid-twenties two nights in a row, instantly killing just about everything.<\/p>\n

I thought about taking a picture of the tomato plants before we headed out. They hadn’t been flowering much, but the had grown like weeds. I figured by spring they’d be monsters ready to produce a massive harvest. Now they won’t produce anything.<\/p>\n

We picked about 15 big eggplants before the trip, and left another 10 or so on the plant (it was already a monster). The 10 we left in San Jose didn’t like being freeze-dried.<\/p>\n

There were only a few peppers and tomatoes ready when we left, and we picked all but one or two of each. Like the eggplants, they didn’t make it through the arctic blast.<\/p>\n

But the artichoke plant is loving life. Who knew? And all the herbs in the front yard seem pretty happy too. So it’s not a total loss.

\"Freeze-Dried\"<\/a>
Freeze-Dried<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
\"Artichoke\"<\/a>
Artichoke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not supposed to freeze here. Isn’t that the whole point of living (somewhat) close to the coast in California? I thought so. That’s what I signed up for. But apparently, I was wrong. While we were in San Diego over Christmas and New Year’s, our garden froze. It wasn’t a slight dip below 32 … Continue reading New Year’s Freeze<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}