{"id":838,"date":"2012-01-02T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2012-01-02T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T15:57:09","slug":"garden-plans-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/garden-plans-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Plans for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the current status: The arugula and volunteer dill are still alive. At least they were yesterday; it&#8217;s supposed to be 16 tonight so we&#8217;ll see. The basil is clinging to life as a houseplant. When I watered all the others before our trip, I forgot it. It seems to be recovering for now. Sorry, basil.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I&#8217;ve got a good idea of what I want to do with the gardens next year, so let me lay it out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rhubarb should be big enough that we get to pick some, and I want to plant a second rhubarb.<\/li>\n<li>Beets! Beet greens make me happy, but I&#8217;m giving up on getting beets.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll try spinach and swiss chard again. Maybe they&#8217;ll grow.<\/li>\n<li>There will definitely be successive plantings of lettuce and mesclun. If J is lucky, more than just the arugula will grow in the late fall.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not going to bother with beans or peas because they don&#8217;t produce enough to be worth it. I&#8217;d rather use the space for greens.<\/li>\n<li>Lots of fennel again.<\/li>\n<li>Radishes. This year I didn&#8217;t plant them until fall; next year I will try them in spring as well.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to try putting something (stones or metal) around the tomatoes and eggplant to make them warmer. Hopefully in some fashion that won&#8217;t look horrible. If I buy flagstones I could use them elsewhere once we widen the driveway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In non-food plans, I want to add one or two native prairie flowers to the end of the vegetable bed, where I have one purple coneflower and one&#8230;I forget, one of the many yellow things. This year they were just a few leaves, so I hope next year they actually grow tall. And if I&#8217;m really ambitious, I&#8217;ll put a lattice up to screen the rain barrel from the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the current status: The arugula and volunteer dill are still alive. At least they were yesterday; it&#8217;s supposed to be 16 tonight so we&#8217;ll see. The basil is clinging to life as a houseplant. When I watered all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/garden-plans-for-2012\/\">Continue reading <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}