{"id":2006,"date":"2014-10-29T00:02:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T07:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-58\/"},"modified":"2014-10-29T00:02:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T07:02:20","slug":"garden-tip-58","status":"publish","type":"tool","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Tip #58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you planted your tomatoes in April or mid-June, by mid-summer it&#8217;s time to think about training and staking strategies.  An eight-inch tomato may be dwarfed by a &#8220;tomato cage&#8221; in June, but by September the cage is usually swallowed up and listing dangerously to one side.  The alternative, tying up one central branch to a stake, improves disease resistance, but requires constant vigilance to pinch out all suckers.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guamsustainableag.org\/knowingyourcrops\/gf7%20(8).pdf\">University of the Virgin Islands<\/a> provides an excellent illustrated explanation on training tomatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you planted your tomatoes in April or mid-June, by mid-summer it&#8217;s time to think about training and staking strategies. An eight-inch tomato may be dwarfed by a &#8220;tomato cage&#8221; in June, but by September the cage is usually swallowed up and listing dangerously to one side. The alternative, tying up one central branch to a stake, improves disease resistance, but requires constant vigilance to pinch out all suckers. University of the Virgin Islands provides an excellent illustrated explanation on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-58\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Tip #58<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[270,255],"class_list":["post-2006","tool","type-tool","status-publish","hentry","keyword-tomatoes","keyword-tomatoes-care-and-maintenance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool\/2006"}],"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=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}