{"id":16713,"date":"2014-08-18T23:46:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T06:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=16713"},"modified":"2014-08-20T08:47:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T15:47:56","slug":"a-day-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=16713","title":{"rendered":"A Day In The Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

We finished cleanup of the summer garden and planted the winter garden. \u00a0We put in Cauilflower, beets (three kinds), carrots (three kinds) and additional Swiss chard! \u00a0Sue pointed out a spider that captured one of the Japanese Beetles so we snapped a couple of pictures.<\/p>\n

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You could almost hear the spider working away<\/p><\/div>\n

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Interesting to see nature at work<\/p><\/div>\n

The beetle species Popillia japonica is commonly known as the Japanese beetle. It is about 15 millimetres (0.6 in) long and 10 millimetres (0.4 in) wide, with iridescent copper-colored elytra and green thorax and head. It is not very destructive in Japan, where it is controlled by natural predators, but in North America it is a serious pest of about 200 species of plants, including rose bushes, grapes, hops, canna, crape myrtles, birch trees, linden trees and others.<\/p>\n

We did our visit to Malarkey’s and Greg returned from his northern visit.\u00a0 We got to swap stories and had a good time.\u00a0 We missed Greg’s company last week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We finished cleanup of the summer garden and planted the winter garden. \u00a0We put in Cauilflower, beets (three kinds), carrots (three kinds) and additional Swiss chard! \u00a0Sue pointed out a spider that captured one of the Japanese Beetles so we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17,16],"tags":[38,143,18,11],"class_list":["post-16713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-wine","category-friends","category-gardening","tag-cooking","tag-friends","tag-garden","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}