{"id":669,"date":"2015-11-22T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T23:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=669"},"modified":"2015-11-22T19:36:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T06:36:39","slug":"update-on-the-orange-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/update-on-the-orange-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Orange Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a couple of weeks ago I was showing you\u00a0blossoms and bees<\/a>, and now look — here are next years’ oranges on their way.<\/p>\n

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Small, but perfectly formed<\/p><\/div>\n

We think the orange grove was planted in the mid 1980’s by the people who set up the farmlet as it now stands (previously it was probably part of a much larger farm).\u00a0They must have loved citrus since we have pretty much every type you can think of — lemon (both Meyer and Lisbon), lime, mandarin, tangerine, tangelo, several varieties of orange in the grove, even kumquat and something we think is a pomelo<\/a> (I’ll keep you posted).<\/p>\n

Curiously there is no\u00a0grapefruit, possibly pointing to those original owners being hypertensive<\/a>. Since none of the\u00a0current\u00a0farmlet co-conspirators<\/a> are on blood pressure medications yet (despite The Forbearing Husband’s artery clogging potato salad being\u00a0a family\u00a0favorite) our master marmalade maker\u00a0Deborah<\/a> intends to correct the grapefruit\u00a0oversight asap.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

Yes, I know, I’m obsessed with the bees — here is one on what might be\u00a0pomelo blossom<\/p><\/div>\n

I have high hopes for the\u00a0citrus. Last month I negotiated\u00a0my first farmlet\u00a0barter at an eatery\u00a0in Grey Lynn. I traded\u00a0a couple of kilos of our limes for a glass of Chardonnay, which leaves me wondering how many kumquats equal a gin and tonic…? Interested parties with something good to swap\u00a0may\u00a0leave offers in the comments.<\/p>\n

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Just a couple of weeks ago I was showing you\u00a0blossoms and bees, and now look — here are next years’ oranges on their way. We think the orange grove was planted in the mid 1980’s by the people who set… Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bartering","category-bees","category-orange-grove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":69,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}