{"id":1997,"date":"2014-10-29T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T07:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-148\/"},"modified":"2014-10-29T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T07:02:11","slug":"garden-tip-148","status":"publish","type":"tool","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-148\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Tip #148"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When, exactly, is the best time to harvest a tomato for perfect flavor? According to expert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holesonline.com\/\">Lois Hole<\/a>, &#8220;tomatoes have the best flavor when picked just before they&#8217;ve reached their color peak.&#8221;  If left on the vine until soft sugar and acid will decrease, degrading the flavor.  The wonderful little book called <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=7200\">Lois Hole&#8217;s Tomato Favorites<\/a> (Lone Pine, $12.95) is filled with growing information, recipes, facts and folklore with color pictures and quick reference charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When, exactly, is the best time to harvest a tomato for perfect flavor? According to expert Lois Hole, &#8220;tomatoes have the best flavor when picked just before they&#8217;ve reached their color peak.&#8221; If left on the vine until soft sugar and acid will decrease, degrading the flavor. The wonderful little book called Lois Hole&#8217;s Tomato Favorites (Lone Pine, $12.95) is filled with growing information, recipes, facts and folklore with color pictures and quick reference charts.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-148\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Tip #148<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[256,255],"class_list":["post-1997","tool","type-tool","status-publish","hentry","keyword-lycopersicon","keyword-tomatoes-care-and-maintenance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tool"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}