{"id":101,"date":"2009-03-19T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T05:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=101"},"modified":"2009-10-29T22:08:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T08:08:35","slug":"first-big-pruning-of-the-tea-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2009\/03\/first-big-pruning-of-the-tea-field\/","title":{"rendered":"First big pruning of the tea field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This long wet winter has been great for the tea.\u00a0 It just loves misty wet weather.\u00a0 The most healthy and well-established plants have been growing fast and strong.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve collected branches several times to make cuttings.\u00a0 Community folks Heidi and Mary came by with her kids to get tea cuttings to start their own tea.\u00a0 After that, it was time to prune all the plants even further down.\u00a0 Experienced tea growers taught us that when the plants are young, they should be pruned down to encourage a strong root base and lots of branches, which should make for a thick full hedge later on.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how the field looks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/IrUhomGetPEKZz3jcwqSIA?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_5SfuxEG63Y4\/ScMVx9HFi-I\/AAAAAAAABQc\/zldaArSb8IA\/s288\/DSC05591.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/BySKlE3sxK5k_8OmajoFCA?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_5SfuxEG63Y4\/ScMV1ZyLmMI\/AAAAAAAABPI\/2sWmkO8rOag\/s288\/DSC05593.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/uubzvgRRC-0vx9FlO52Trw?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_5SfuxEG63Y4\/ScMV3OL9ocI\/AAAAAAAABPQ\/mvMBSB4i62g\/s288\/DSC05594.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/EiaeZetpQWCbyVXJV1MkEA?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_5SfuxEG63Y4\/ScMV5C9qWkI\/AAAAAAAABPY\/JPe0xaqjZUA\/s288\/DSC05595.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This long wet winter has been great for the tea.\u00a0 It just loves misty wet weather.\u00a0 The most healthy and well-established plants have been growing fast and strong.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve collected branches several times to make cuttings.\u00a0 Community folks Heidi and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2009\/03\/first-big-pruning-of-the-tea-field\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}