{"id":144,"date":"2010-07-24T10:29:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T14:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:09:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:09:26","slug":"red-norlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/red-norlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Norlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145 alignnone\" title=\"RedNorland1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RedNorland1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/>Red potatoes were ready to dig today!\u00a0 David gently forked the ground until it coughed up this variety of early\/new potato, the Red Norland, which we planted about 100 days ago (days to maturity are always listed on your seed packet so that you may plan accordingly).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-147\" title=\"RedNorland3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RedNorland3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"187\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146 alignnone\" title=\"RedNorland2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RedNorland2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to explain the feeling of loosening the dirt and letting it fall through the fork only to reveal these red beauties left rolling around on the tines&#8230;it makes me pause every time. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150 alignleft\" title=\"RedNorland4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/RedNorland4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/>It&#8217;s a family favorite&#8211;so delicate and tender&#8211;and the skin gives way easily as you take bites.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, we can keep the bushels through the winter in the basement. Last year, we didn&#8217;t run the furnace at all (which is in the basement) because we used both wood stoves. Aside from keeping the family cool&#8211;remember the record snowfalls in the northeast?&#8211;it kept the potatoes and squash perfectly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">David is great about planting an abundance of Red Norlands and we&#8217;re always excited to see that first bushel basket he&#8217;s pulled from the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red potatoes were ready to dig today!\u00a0 David gently forked the ground until it coughed up this variety of early\/new potato, the Red Norland, which we planted about 100 days ago (days to maturity are always listed on your seed packet so that you may plan accordingly). It&#8217;s hard to explain the feeling of loosening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,19,36,44,39],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-farming","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-pennsylvania","tag-potatoes","tag-vegetable-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}