{"id":84,"date":"2012-05-22T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2012-05-22T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:42:00","slug":"another-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Another Season Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the garden is now in the ground:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Tomatoes!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Potatoes, carrots & parsnips, planted in April<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\ufeff\ufeff I didn’t remember to photograph the main garden, because we were headed out immediately to plant the back 40:<\/p>\n

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From this angle, it doesn’t look so bad.\u00a0 Hunched over the rows, planting peas, beans and corn, it seemed like the worlds loooooongest field.\u00a0 Where you can see the furrows above, we planted corn in one half of the right hand side (we are planning a successive planting over the weekend of June 16-17 if the weather holds) and on the left-hand side, we planted 1 1\/2 rows of pole beans, 1\/2 row of green bush beans, 1 row of purple bush beans, and five rows of peas.\u00a0\u00a0I must\u00a0have put in\u00a0more than 200.\u00a0 J claims to like peas – we’re about to find out just how much.\u00a0 We left 2 rows empty to do successive plantings of green and purple bush beans.\u00a0 About the middle of the field you can see some very thin stakes sticking up – J planted barley in that area.\u00a0 Behind the barley is where we will be putting the pumpkins, watermelons, winter squash and radishes.\u00a0 We don’t actually like radishes all that much, but J read that they repel the bugs that eat squash and pumpkin plants, so hey!\u00a0 Let’s grow some radishes.\u00a0 I bet the woodchuck will love<\/em> them.<\/div>\n
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Our newest concern is how often it rains.\u00a0 Unlike the main house garden and raised beds, there is no water source out by the back-40 field, and it’s quite some distance from the house:
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Standing next to the field, looking back towards the house<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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In fact, you can’t even see the house from the back-40 garden.\u00a0 Fortunately today it is raining, and it seems like we got a pretty good soaking rain last night.\u00a0 We’re hoping the overcast\/drizzly weather last through Thursday, as predicted, while J investigates the possibility of rain barrels for out back.\u00a0 Otherwise it’s a really long way to haul 5-gallon buckets of water, even if we put them in the trailer that attaches to the tractor.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of the garden is now in the ground: Tomatoes! \ufeff\ufeff Potatoes, carrots & parsnips, planted in April \ufeff\ufeff I didn’t remember to photograph the main garden, because we were headed out immediately to plant the back 40: From this angle, it doesn’t look so bad.\u00a0 Hunched over the rows, planting peas, beans and corn, … Continue reading Another Season 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":[15,10,18,14,7,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-1m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}