{"id":1613,"date":"2014-06-09T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2014-06-09T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:36:11","slug":"strawberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"strawberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve been really excited about our strawberries this year, partially because that part of the garden has the least amount of weeds (due to last year&#8217;s newspaper and mulch layer), but mostly because the plants have just looked so promising all spring.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1616\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1616\" class=\"wp-image-1616 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"strawberry1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry1-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">may 24<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I was fretting early on about all flowers not getting pollinated because I expected to see our bees all over the plants. They were busy in other places, but it turns out other insects did the job just fine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1617\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1617\" class=\"wp-image-1617 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"strawberry2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">may 30<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I wrote about how making <a title=\"2014 sap &amp; syrup stats\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=1599\">maple syrup<\/a> was a patience maker, but I think it&#8217;s true for growing food also. I&#8217;m trying to make &#8220;wait a day after you think it&#8217;s ready&#8221; my strawberry picking rule because it&#8217;s so tempting to pick the fruit before it&#8217;s fully ripe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1615\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/first_strawberries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1615\" class=\"wp-image-1615 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/first_strawberries-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"first_strawberries\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/first_strawberries-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/first_strawberries.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">june 3<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1618\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1618\" class=\"wp-image-1618 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"strawberry3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/strawberry3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">june 8<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1614\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bowl_of_berries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1614\" class=\"wp-image-1614 size-medium\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bowl_of_berries-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"bowl_of_berries\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bowl_of_berries-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bowl_of_berries.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">june 9<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m looking forward to picking more tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been really excited about our strawberries this year, partially because that part of the garden has the least amount of weeds (due to last year&#8217;s newspaper and mulch layer), but mostly because the plants have just looked so promising &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=1613\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}