{"id":450,"date":"2009-05-12T08:52:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2009-05-14T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:54:04","slug":"may-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2009\/05\/may-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"may long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long weekend in May is fast approaching, the traditional time to move the plants out of the greenhouse and house and into the ground.<br \/>\nThe portable heater combined with  a plastic housing directly around the greenhouse racks has kept the plants from freezing and we haven&#8217;t lost any except to a family of mice earlier on back in April.<br \/>\nThe last week has seen us busily prepping the garden beds.<br \/>\nVeg 1 has fall garlic planted so not much to do there<br \/>\nVeg 2 had dirt and sheep manure added and roto-tilled in<\/p>\n<table border=0>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/20090511-010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/20090511-010.jpg\" alt=\"Veg2\" title=\"veg2-20090511-010\" width=\"100\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/20090511-009-640.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/20090511-009-640.jpg\" alt=\"20090511-009-640\" title=\"veg3-20090511-009-640\" width=\"200\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<td><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/20090511-001-640.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/20090511-001-640.jpg\" alt=\"20090511-001-640\" title=\"Veg4-20090511-001-640\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/table>\n<p>Veg 3 has a portable cedar cold frame with lettuce and outside of that some peas growing well.<br \/>\nVeg 4A  is vacant and has had dirt and sheep manure added and roto-tilled in<br \/>\nVeg 4B is vacant and has had dirt and sheep manure added<br \/>\nVeg 4C is a new 200 ft^2 raised bed garden with a lot of dirt and sheep manure added.  This one was just completed last night with a cedar arbour and a gravel pathway.<br \/>\nWork continues on building a deer fence around the entire Veg4 complex.  Last year there wasn&#8217;t a week that went by without hoof prints in the garden and missing plants.  This year we are putting up 4&#215;4 posts in concrete around the perimeter and adding on a Lee Valley 7&#8242; high nylon deer fence.  Three posts are in place now with two more going in tonight and the remainder later on in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long weekend in May is fast approaching, the traditional time to move the plants out of the greenhouse and house and into the ground. The portable heater combined with a plastic housing directly around the greenhouse racks has kept the plants from freezing and we haven&#8217;t lost any except to a family of mice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}