American Purple Top
\nExpected germination: 3-10 days
\nExpected harvest: 90 days<\/p>\n
36 seeds<\/p>\n
06\/02: Planted 2 per cell in 18 cells.
\n06\/06: 27 of 36 (75%) have shoots 0″ to 1\/4″ tall.
\n06\/10: 35 of 36 (97%) have shoots 1\/4″ to 3\/4″ tall.
\n06\/14: 35 of 36 (97%) have shoots 1″ to 1-1\/4″ tall.
\n06\/19: Shoots are too dense to count and mostly 2″ to 3″ tall.
\n06\/23: Planted out.
\n07\/10: Thinned. Leaves and stalks chopped and boiled with dinner.
\n07\/18: 9″ to 14″ tail, with foliage diameters to 24″. Unfortunately shading carrots.
\n07\/19: Found and hosed off some aphid colonies.
\n07\/22: Sprayed with 0.001% spinosad, an organic pesticide.
\n07\/24: Approx 17″ tall, with foliage diameter approx 24″.
\n08\/01: 14″ to 18″ tall, with foliage diameters 29″ to 33″.
\n08\/02: Sprayed some leaves with 0.001% spinosad against aphids.
\n08\/07: Approx 22″ tall, with foliage diameters approx 32″. Crowding cabbage and carrots.
\n08\/12: Powdery mildew.
\n08\/12: Started harvest.
\n08\/15: Approx 22″ tall, with foliage diameters approx 36″. Crowding cabbage and carrots. Powdery mildew.
\n08\/23: Approx 25″ tall, with foliage diameters approx 36″. Crowding cabbage and carrots. Severe powdery mildew.
\n08\/29: Sprayed with baking soda (1\/2pt at 1t\/qt) against powdery mildew.
\n08\/30: Approx 24″ tall, with foliage diameters approx 30″. Crowding cabbage. Powdery mildew. A few roots formed.
\n09\/15: Leaves dying back despite very little development of storage root. Dug up remaining plants.<\/p>\n
Harvest: 74-105 days. Good flavor but only about half yielded usable roots.. Poor crop may be due to limited sun and\/or overcrowding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
American Purple Top Expected germination: 3-10 days Expected harvest: 90 days 36 seeds 06\/02: Planted 2 per cell in 18 cells. 06\/06: 27 of 36 (75%) have shoots 0″ to 1\/4″ tall. 06\/10: 35 of 36 (97%) have shoots 1\/4″ to 3\/4″ tall. 06\/14: 35 of 36 (97%) have shoots 1″ to 1-1\/4″ tall. 06\/19: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-2009-annuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}