{"id":2634,"date":"2013-05-16T21:49:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T01:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2013-05-16T21:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T01:51:42","slug":"garden-second-go-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2634","title":{"rendered":"Garden, second go-round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, we…all 8 of us…planted our garden. \u00c2\u00a0This is our 2nd year…last year we planted about 3\/4 of it. \u00c2\u00a0This year, the whole shebang.<\/p>\n

I have no pictures of the actual planting, you’ll have to take my word for it. \u00c2\u00a0It’s hard to take pictures when you’re hands are covered in wet, red dirt. \u00c2\u00a0Clay, actually. \u00c2\u00a0We live in NC, and dirt “here” is a relative term. \u00c2\u00a0When we lived in Florida, a flimsy spoon is all you really needed to dig a decent hole in the dirt. \u00c2\u00a0Not so here.<\/p>\n

Why was it wet? \u00c2\u00a0Halfway through the planting, the rain began. \u00c2\u00a0Most of us stuck to it for a while, but some of us (ahem) went inside until it eased up. \u00c2\u00a0Randy and Abbey get full credit for “all day” planting.<\/p>\n

When it was all said and done, we planned the garden (what plants, how many, where in the garden, how many rows, etc.), bought all the plants\/seeds, and got it all in the ground in about 6 hours.<\/p>\n

Now, we water. \u00c2\u00a0And, wait. \u00c2\u00a0Some of the plants are still trying to get established and look a little wilty. \u00c2\u00a0But, nothing has died yet.<\/p>\n

Here are some shots I got as Randy was replacing some sprinkler heads<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I know it looks like only dirt, but I promise stuff is there. \u00c2\u00a0Cantaloupe, 4 kinds of peppers, 4 kinds of tomatoes, beans, peas, 12 rows of corn, and cucumbers.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Farmer Randy<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Yes, I am that tall…<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

running from the sprinkler<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Forgive my change of subject, but I love having wildflowers on our property<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

And, this is the field beside us. \u00c2\u00a0They allow it to overgrow, then mow it, put it into rows, spread it out to let it dry, and then bale it up. \u00c2\u00a0This happens over 4 or 5 days. \u00c2\u00a0We’re in the process of purchasing this extra land now, which will bring our acreage to about 19. \u00c2\u00a0So thankful for this place we get to call home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, we…all 8 of us…planted our garden. \u00c2\u00a0This is our 2nd year…last year we planted about 3\/4 of it. \u00c2\u00a0This year, the whole shebang. I have no pictures of the actual planting, you’ll have to take my word for it. \u00c2\u00a0It’s hard to take pictures when you’re hands are covered in wet, red dirt. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}