Fordbook Giant
\nExpected germination: 4-10 days
\nExpected harvest: 55 days<\/p>\n
18 seeds<\/p>\n
06\/02: Planted 2 per cell in 9 cells.
\n06\/06: No visible change.
\n06\/10: 18 of 18 (100%) have shoots 1\/4″ to 1″ tall.
\n06\/14: 18 of 18 (100%) have shoots 3\/4″ to 1-3\/4″ tall.
\n06\/19: 18 of 18 (100%) have shoots 2″ to 3-1\/2″ tall.
\n06\/21: Planted out.
\n07\/01: Heat stressed – added shade.
\n07\/05: Started occasional outer-leaf-snipping harvest.
\n07\/05: Removed shade.
\n07\/12: Removed approx one third of leaves due to brown patches.
\n07\/14: Brown patches identified as caused by spinach leaf miner.
\n07\/18: No harvesting since 07\/12 as MJH prefers larger leaves. Now 7″ to 12″ tall with diameters 9″ to 19″.
\n07\/22: Sprayed with 0.001% spinosad, an organic pesticide.
\n07\/24: 11″ to 20″ tall, with diameters 9″ to 15″. Harvesting remains deferred in favor of continued growth.
\n07\/28: Sprayed with 0.001% spinosad, an organic pesticide.
\n08\/01: 17″ to 23″ tall, with diameters about 16″. Occasional harvest resumed.
\n08\/07: 15″ to 30″ tall, with diameters 12″ to 19″. Occasional harvesting.
\n08\/15: 18″ to 24″ tall. Nearly exhausted.
\n08\/23: 12″ to 27″ tall. Old but still harvesting.
\n08\/30: 11″ to 17″ tall, with diameters 10″ to 18″. Old but still harvesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fordbook Giant Expected germination: 4-10 days Expected harvest: 55 days 18 seeds 06\/02: Planted 2 per cell in 9 cells. 06\/06: No visible change. 06\/10: 18 of 18 (100%) have shoots 1\/4″ to 1″ tall. 06\/14: 18 of 18 (100%) have shoots 3\/4″ to 1-3\/4″ tall. 06\/19: 18 of 18 (100%) have shoots 2″ to […]<\/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-151","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\/151","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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}