{"id":22,"date":"2007-05-18T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T16:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/rhubarb-wine-rhubarb-needs-love-too\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T16:54:55","slug":"rhubarb-wine-rhubarb-needs-love-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/rhubarb-wine-rhubarb-needs-love-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhubarb Wine: Rhubarb needs love too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rhubarb plant on 5\/18\/2007\" src=\"\/pic\/20070518 rhubarb plant.jpg\" alt=\"The short thin stalks on this rhubarb plant are from neglect\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"center\" \/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy to grow. It&#8217;s hardy. You don&#8217;t have to do much for it. Well, that&#8217;s all true of <a title=\"Know Your Ingredients: Rhubarb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/know-your-ingredients-rhubarb\/\">rhubarb<\/a>, unless you want to harvest a good crop. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/rhubarb-wine\/\">first harvest<\/a> of the year was pretty good, and better than last year. That made me feel pretty good about how the rhubarb patch was doing, and I neglected it for other things. I didn&#8217;t weed, fertilize, or water (it&#8217;s easy to grow, after all), and it looks like I won&#8217;t be harvesting this month. I didn&#8217;t take a &#8220;before&#8221; picture, because I was too embarrassed. Here&#8217;s what it looks like now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhubarb is hardy, but you still have to water, weed, and fertilize to get a good crop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}