{"id":101,"date":"2026-10-29T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/?p=101"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:55:31","slug":"mid-october-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/mid-october-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-October, in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much of the time in mid-October in the garden is maintenance – cleaning up beds, composting, recycling, putting away stakes and cages, harvesting vegetables, deadheading, raking, draining hoses, prepping irrigation for the blowout, and more.\u00a0 \u00a0 With one night of light frost, the cucumbers and zucchini were gone, but the nasturtiums seemed fine.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0There will be more frost damage this month.<\/p>\n

Ongoing work on landscaping is a slow process, but we are adding paving stones and rock borders over time.<\/p>\n

In the flower gardens, many species continue to flower, some of which are shared here in a Google Photos Album.\u00a0 \u00a0Captions were added to the images for ease of identification:<\/p>\n

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See you out gardening…<\/p>\n

DnD Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much of the time in mid-October in the garden is maintenance – cleaning up beds, composting, recycling, putting away stakes and cages, harvesting vegetables, deadheading, raking, draining hoses, prepping irrigation for the blowout, and more.\u00a0 \u00a0 With one night of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden-views","tag-fall-gardening"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC00631.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamloopsgardenclub.com\/gardennewsandviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}