{"id":4525,"date":"2024-07-20T19:26:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2024-07-20T19:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:26:34","slug":"garlic-braid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=4525","title":{"rendered":"Garlic Braid"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"1007\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/garlic-braid-07_20_2024.jpg?resize=695%2C1007&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4526\" style=\"width:709px;height:auto\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/garlic-braid-07_20_2024.jpg?resize=707%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 707w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/garlic-braid-07_20_2024.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/garlic-braid-07_20_2024.jpg?resize=768%2C1112&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/garlic-braid-07_20_2024.jpg?resize=1061%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1061w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/garlic-braid-07_20_2024.jpg?resize=1100%2C1593&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/garlic-braid-07_20_2024.jpg?w=1328&amp;ssl=1 1328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I cleaned and braided my softneck garlic this afternoon. With only 13 heads, this is the smallest braid ever. But those heads are big. But then, I still have four heads from last year\u2019s harvest. The braid will hang in my pantry for storage. I will consume my hardnecks first, plus four or five smaller (and \u201cinjured\u201d) softnecks that did not make it into the braid. I also saved the two largest heads separately as seed garlic to go in the ground in late October\/early November. The hardneck garlic is still just hanging in the back hallway. I want to give it a bit more time for curing before I clean it and put it away as it has been very hot and humid these past few weeks.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cleaned and braided my softneck garlic this afternoon. With only 13 heads, this is the smallest braid ever. But those heads are big. But then, I still have four&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,25,30,40,51,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decorating","category-garlic","category-harvest","category-planning","category-preserving","category-summer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1aZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4528,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}