{"id":17,"date":"2020-10-23T19:29:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.66\/geekygarden\/?p=17"},"modified":"2020-10-23T20:24:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:24:14","slug":"six-on-saturday-24th-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2020\/10\/23\/six-on-saturday-24th-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 24th October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Six things in the garden, on a Saturday. #SixonSaturday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve moved my blog to WordPress. Wow, so much easier to use than my previous provider. This week, I’m highlighting the still-vibrant colours on display in the October garden, and the last few edibles maturing in the greenhouse. First, WOW, the cotinus in the sunny border gets a bit leggy in summer, but now it’s all so worth it for the fabulous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next up, some dahlia love. I bought some extra dahlias at the end of summer. They have been, well, slow to develop. This beauty is boasting it’s first flower this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this one has a couple of flowers come, since I moved it into the greenhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are still edibles on my plot, if you don’t fancy brassica, then most of the interest is in the greenhouse. First up here are the last few grapes and a fine looking cucumber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And second, there are several achocha vines still fruiting. These strange little fruits are related to ‘exploding cucumber’ but thankfully they don’t explode. Nice in a stirfry, tasting a bit like sweet pepper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To prevent the chillies from suffering from blight before the fruit ripen, the good plants are now in the house. The windowsill is hosting this lemon-drop. Very hot fruits with a lemony flavour and delicious dry fried and popped into a curry or stir-fry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last, this plant suggest a lesson for our times, hang in there and don’t give up. This clematis seemed dead until late August when a few green shoots appeared. And now the flowers come with a rich ripe wine colour. Beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ooops, did I squeeze 7 in there this week? Shhhhh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Six things in the garden, on a Saturday. #SixonSaturday I’ve moved my blog to WordPress. Wow, so much easier to use than my previous provider. This week, I’m highlighting the still-vibrant colours on display in the October garden, and the last few edibles maturing in the greenhouse. First, WOW, the cotinus in the sunny border … Continue reading Six on Saturday 24th October<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}