{"id":1987,"date":"2010-07-12T13:54:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2010-07-12T13:54:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T13:54:59","slug":"more-vegetable-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/07\/more-vegetable-news\/","title":{"rendered":"More Vegetable News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">guest post: Mary Dolan<\/p>\n<p>The hot and humid weather has brought on a problem for the cucumbers and squash vines in the garden.\u00a0Powdery Mildew, a common problem in this area, has attacked the plants causing the leaves to whiten and die.\u00a0Some gardeners simply do not plant squash any more due to the heartbreak this disease can cause.<\/p>\n<p>Since we are trying to solve these problems organically, we searched for an answer to our problem and found milk.\u00a0Yes, spraying a 1 part skim milk to 9 parts water on all leaf surfaces once a week (after removing all infected leaves) is supposed to retard the spreadof the disease.\u00a0Also, increasing air circulation by removing leaves and\/or staking the plants should help.<\/p>\n<p>We applied the treatment this weekend and will report on how well it works in the weeks ahead.\u00a0But even with the disease, we had our first mature cucumber this week!<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cucumber-and-pepper.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1989\" title=\"cucumber and pepper\" src=\"http:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cucumber-and-pepper-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cucumber-and-pepper-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cucumber-and-pepper.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">guest post: Mary Dolan<\/p>\n<p>The hot and humid weather has brought on a problem for the cucumbers and squash vines in the garden.\u00a0Powdery Mildew, a common problem in this area, has attacked the plants causing the leaves to whiten and die.\u00a0Some gardeners simply do not plant squash any more due to the heartbreak this disease can cause.<\/p>\n<p>Since we are trying to solve these problems organically, we searched for an answer to our problem and found milk.\u00a0Yes, spraying a 1 part skim milk to 9 parts water on all leaf surfaces once a week (after removing all infected leaves) is supposed to retard the spreadof the disease.\u00a0Also, increasing air circulation by removing leaves and\/or staking the plants should help.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/2010\/07\/more-vegetable-news\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[164,94],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planning","category-public-spaces","tag-organic-gardening","tag-vegetable-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/blog-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}