{"id":2155,"date":"2007-04-21T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2007-04-21T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T22:51:00","slug":"inch-by-inch-row-by-row-gonna-make-this-garden-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2155","title":{"rendered":"Inch by inch, row by row \/ Gonna make this garden grow&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthday.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Day is tomorrow<\/a> (and I\u2019m one of the folks who remember the original one in 1970 [I even had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Earth-Day-Beginning-Author\/dp\/B000BRM9LK\/\" target=\"_blank\">the book<\/a>]), I spent the day doing \u201cearthy\u201d stuff. Specifically: I worked in the yard. Yes, for the first time, a legitimate use for this userpic!<\/p>\n<p>So, what did I do? First, I dug and turned over one large planter bed where we had yucky plants we ripped out. This was harder than it sounds, for (a) the bed was roughly 40&#8217;x10&#8242;, and (b) we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenline.usask.ca\/misc\/soil.html\" target=\"_blank\">heavy, wet clay soil<\/a>. So this task also involved adding some compost (which had to be dug out of the bin) and picking up 100lbs of sand and digging that in&#8230; which made nary a dent! The second task was planting. Today, I planted about 8 tomato plants, 4 zucchini plants, 2 lavendar plants, 7 mint plants (in their own exclusive bed), a rosemary bush, and 2 basil plants. All in all, a good days work. As a bonus, the weather held: it was chilly but sunny, with just the threat of some rain.<\/p>\n<p>One odd thing, though&#8230; as I kept digging and planting, I kept finding whole peanuts. No idea why. Crushed peanut shells I could understand &#8212; they would help with clay soil. But whole peanuts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Earth Day is tomorrow (and I\u2019m one of the folks who remember the original one in 1970 [I even had the book]), I spent the day doing \u201cearthy\u201d stuff. Specifically: I worked in the yard. Yes, for the first time, a legitimate use for this userpic! So, what did I do? First, I dug <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2155\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}