{"id":413,"date":"2014-06-13T12:05:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2014-06-13T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T16:05:09","slug":"summer-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Summer begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

So once again, I cannot take a lot of credit for moving the garden from concept to reality – J has done the lion’s share of the seedling care & planting. I did go on a massive weeding spree this past weekend, so the gardens are attractive enough to be posted on the internet:<\/p>\n

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Main garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Parsnips,<\/a>
Parsnips, carrots, turnips, beets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Herbs<\/a>
Herbs & lettuce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has been such a cold spring that growth has been sluggish.\u00a0 Everything went into the ground the weekend of May 17th but it’s barely done anything.\u00a0 I know the heat of July will kick everything into high gear.<\/p>\n

One crop that is doing well are the hops – J bought three different types a few years ago.\u00a0 The first year we put them in pots outside our sun porch, and ran them up a trellis.\u00a0 Last year they were transplanted out into a sunny spot in the area where the orchard is going to go, and this year he split them.\u00a0 Several of them are already higher than five feet:<\/p>\n

\"Hop<\/a>
Hop vines – without flowers (yet)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two years ago J grew barley, with the intent of trying to brew his own beer.\u00a0 The birds ate most of it, and Max napped in what the birds didn’t get.\u00a0 It was less than optimal, so we’ve abandoned barley.\u00a0 And beer brewing, truth be told.\u00a0 Turns out Sam Adams makes perfectly acceptable beer, and it is ten times easier to get it at the store.\u00a0 Go figure.<\/p>\n

Finally, the back garden went in this weekend – this year, everything is being started from seed (watermelons, corn, beans, peas, pumpkins, etc.) so there’s nothing to look at here except exceptionally fluffy soil and beautiful rows achieved with the assistance of some John Deere tractor attachment that’s been cluttering up our basement.\u00a0 Meaning that it gets to live another year at our house, because there is no way<\/em> I want to rake a 25′ x 90′ garden into parallel rows.<\/p>\n

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Back 40, after planting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And now we wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So once again, I cannot take a lot of credit for moving the garden from concept to reality – J has done the lion’s share of the seedling care & planting. I did go on a massive weeding spree this past weekend, so the gardens are attractive enough to be posted on the internet: It … Continue reading Summer begins<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[73,6,69,37,14,7,49,1,5,45],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-6F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}