{"id":20753,"date":"2022-08-23T20:26:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T01:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=20753"},"modified":"2022-08-23T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T01:26:49","slug":"respite-from-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2022\/20220823-20753.htm","title":{"rendered":"Respite from the Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Squash love heat. They need warm soil to germinate and a long hot season to bear good fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even squash have their limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From mid-July to mid-August, twenty out of thirty days were above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got a few zucchini from my four large hills, but they were few and far between – not like the bumper crops one expects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zucchini blossoms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I barely saw any squash blossoms, and those I did see stayed mostly closed – not an ideal situation for pollination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, in God’s mercy, the temperatures have cooled to the low 90s for the past week – and I was delighted to discover plants full of wide open blossoms when I went out to water this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wide open! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thank you, Lord, for this respite from the heat! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Squash love heat. They need warm soil to germinate and a long hot season to bear good fruit. But even squash have their limits. From mid-July to mid-August, twenty out of thirty days were above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. I got a few zucchini from my four large hills, but they were few and far between … Read more Respite from the Heat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1680],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20757,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions\/20757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}