{"id":134,"date":"2026-07-08T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:22:21","slug":"tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomatoes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time we started calling posts about the tomatoes &#8220;Tomatoes&#8221; especially with how big they are getting&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-129 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_20260701_122108589_HDR.jpg\" alt=\"Tomatoes in a greenhouse.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_20260701_122108589_HDR.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_20260701_122108589_HDR-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_20260701_122108589_HDR-768x651.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tomatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They have reached a nice size but we still dont have any flowers yet, so we have no tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating (?) fact time. In China tomatoes are called\u00a0 \u897f\u7ea2\u67ff (pronounced x\u012b h\u00f3ng sh\u00ec), literally &#8220;west red persimmon&#8221;). The name denotes that they were introduced from the west during the Ming dynasty (around the 17th century) and that the chinese thought they looked like persimmon fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time we started calling posts about the tomatoes &#8220;Tomatoes&#8221; especially with how big they are getting&#8230; They have reached a nice size but we still dont have any flowers yet, so we have no tomatoes. Fascinating (?) fact time. In China tomatoes are called\u00a0 \u897f\u7ea2\u67ff (pronounced x\u012b h\u00f3ng sh\u00ec), literally &#8220;west red persimmon&#8221;). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/tomatoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tomatoes.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}