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Eggplant, dill, pickling cucumber, slicing cucumber<\/em><\/em>, Thai basil, flower\/herb mini bouquet (calendula, lavender, dwarf zinnia, mint), July 17<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Here are a few pictures of some of my harvests from mid-July through the end of August. Notably absent are tomatoes, despite having 12 (!) tomato plants. Thanks, rats and birds \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Eggplant, cucumbers<\/em><\/em> (for more pickles), flowers<\/em> (snapdragon, calendula, strawflower, zinnia, lavender, mint)<\/em>, July 23<\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pickling cucumbers, rainbow chard, basil (for pesto!), strangely shaped Costata Romanesco zucchino, July 28<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First tomato (tiny and underripe but the rats are wreaking havoc), eggplant, Costata Romanesco zucchino, calendula flowers to dry for salve, mini bouquet (calendula, snapdragon, dill, mint), August 2<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kale and cucumbers, August 10 (not pictured: more calendula flowers for drying)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cucumbers, eggplant, Italian basil (which I turned into more pesto) and cherry tomatoes, August 14<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thai basil (4 cups, which I turned into more pesto<\/a>), first vine-ripened (wire-mesh-*encased<\/em>) tomatoes of the season: Mountain Sunrise and Caiman, August 16<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n* $\"\"$
*Cucumbers and cherry tomatoes (from another gardener\u2019s plot that I am watering while they are on vacation), August 18<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n* $\"\"$
*Cucumber, eggplant,* flower\/herb bouquet<\/a>, calendula for drying, August 24<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Last zucchini, last eggplant, flowers (dahlias, snapdragons, lavender, clover, mint), August 28<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here are a few pictures of some of my harvests from mid-July through the end of August. Notably absent are tomatoes, despite having 12 (!) tomato plants. Thanks, rats and…<\/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":[36,31,44,30,32,53,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decorating","category-flowers","category-greens","category-harvest","category-herbs","category-medicinal","category-summer","category-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1AK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122","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=6122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Eggplant, dill, pickling cucumber, slicing cucumber<\/em><\/em>, Thai basil, flower\/herb mini bouquet (calendula, lavender, dwarf zinnia, mint), July 17<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Here are a few pictures of some of my harvests from mid-July through the end of August. Notably absent are tomatoes, despite having 12 (!) tomato plants. Thanks, rats and birds \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Eggplant, cucumbers<\/em><\/em> (for more pickles), flowers<\/em> (snapdragon, calendula, strawflower, zinnia, lavender, mint)<\/em>, July 23<\/em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pickling cucumbers, rainbow chard, basil (for pesto!), strangely shaped Costata Romanesco zucchino, July 28<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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First tomato (tiny and underripe but the rats are wreaking havoc), eggplant, Costata Romanesco zucchino, calendula flowers to dry for salve, mini bouquet (calendula, snapdragon, dill, mint), August 2<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kale and cucumbers, August 10 (not pictured: more calendula flowers for drying)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cucumbers, eggplant, Italian basil (which I turned into more pesto) and cherry tomatoes, August 14<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thai basil (4 cups, which I turned into more pesto<\/a>), first vine-ripened (wire-mesh-*encased<\/em>) tomatoes of the season: Mountain Sunrise and Caiman, August 16<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n* $\"\"$
*Cucumbers and cherry tomatoes (from another gardener\u2019s plot that I am watering while they are on vacation), August 18<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n* $\"\"$
*Cucumber, eggplant,* flower\/herb bouquet<\/a>, calendula for drying, August 24<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Last zucchini, last eggplant, flowers (dahlias, snapdragons, lavender, clover, mint), August 28<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here are a few pictures of some of my harvests from mid-July through the end of August. Notably absent are tomatoes, despite having 12 (!) tomato plants. Thanks, rats and…<\/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":[36,31,44,30,32,53,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decorating","category-flowers","category-greens","category-harvest","category-herbs","category-medicinal","category-summer","category-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1AK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122","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=6122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}