{"id":4295,"date":"2015-02-17T20:29:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2015-02-17T20:29:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:29:27","slug":"farm-focus-pepper-planting-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/farm-focus-pepper-planting-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Focus: Pepper Planting Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20150211_152514\"<\/a><\/p>\nThis week at the farm, we finished planting all of our summer tomatoes and\u00a0peppers. We are growing a range of\u00a0varieties, from huge, yellow heirloom\u00a0tomatoes to fiery orange Habanero\u00a0peppers. Our choices also include unique\u00a0tomatoes like striped Green Zebras,\u00a0Japanese Black Trifeles, sweet Sun Gold\u00a0cherry tomatoes, and we\u2019re trying our luck\u00a0with green tomatillos this year. Following\u00a0Farmer Al\u2019s love for spicy food, we\u2019ve\u00a0chosen Jalepenos, Cayennes, Ancho\u00a0peppers and Padrons, the Spanish mystery\u00a0peppers - most are sweet, but one in ten is\u00a0very spicy!\n\nThe act of planting tomatoes makes me\u00a0feel like summer is officially on the way. I\u00a0can imagine the distinct smell of tomato\u00a0leaves as we harvest the juicy fruits, peering out from under sun hats as we fill the\u00a0back of Al\u2019s golf cart with totes and totes\u00a0of colorful tomatoes.\n\nMy Dad tells me that every summer in\u00a0New Jersey, his Italian mother planted her\u00a0whole backyard with tomatoes and basil. Then she filled her pantry with jars of\u00a0preserved tomatoes and pesto, in order to get the family through the winter, stuffed\u00a0every night with homemade meatballs and eggplant drenched in deep red tomato\u00a0sauce.\n\nAt the farm there are over 2,000 tomato and pepper plants already. The seeds are\u00a0planted in the greenhouse in trays with 48 cells each. In about a month, we will\u00a0\u201cup-pot\u201d the seedlings into 4-inch pots in order to provide the plants with renewed\u00a0food and more space for root growth. By April, the seedlings will be ready to be\u00a0transplanted into the field, each supported by cages and irrigated with drip lines.\n\nNext, we will weed, water, prune and wait until the Frog Hollow tomatoes and\u00a0peppers arrive. Once the harvest begins, we will commence with the preserving just\u00a0like my Grandma, making tomato conserva for soups and pizzas at our cafe, sun\u00a0drying the tomatoes to be stored in our olive soil and experimenting with salsa and\u00a0hot sauce.\n\nToday the tomatoes stand about one inch tall, just two baby leaves on each. In\u00a0merely months, they\u2019ll be as tall as me, providing us all with a bounty of beautiful\u00a0fruits.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week at the farm, we finished planting all of our summer tomatoes and\u00a0peppers. We are growing a range of\u00a0varieties, from huge, yellow heirloom\u00a0tomatoes to fiery orange Habanero\u00a0peppers. Our choices also include unique\u00a0tomatoes like striped Green Zebras,\u00a0Japanese Black Trifeles, sweet Sun Gold\u00a0cherry tomatoes, and we\u2019re trying our luck\u00a0with green tomatillos this year. Following\u00a0Farmer Al\u2019s love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4297,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150211_110614.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-17h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}