{"id":4959,"date":"2013-08-28T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2013-08-28T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T15:50:01","slug":"bbq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/08\/bbq\/","title":{"rendered":"BBQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bbq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bbq-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"bbq\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bbq-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bbq-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bbq.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>Last Wednesday August 21st, 2013 we hosted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenontario.org\/site.php\/lennox\" target=\"_blank\">Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society<\/a> to a BBQ at our home.  22 people were there, and that was a good turnout.  Not too many that things were crowded and more than enough to make all the work worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>The work was mainly weeding the flower beds and getting the 5 yards of mulch in the day before \ud83d\ude42  Kim did a great job but was hurting a little afterward.  The gardens looked great!<\/p>\n<p>The vegetable beds were pretty much in shape as we tend to spend a lot of time in them during the summer weeding and taking care of them, mainly by picking various bugs off the plants.  We had a heavier than normal year for Colorado potato bugs on the potatos and some tomatos, a heavy year for some kind of icky worm in the parsnip, and a very light year for tomato hornworms.. only 4 to date.<\/p>\n<p>Leak moth larvae in the garlic is still indeterminate.  We need to take down the 4 weeks dried garlic from the racks, clean them up and prepare for choosing seed for planting this fall and for storage.<\/p>\n<p>All in all that was 10 yards of natural cedar mulch in the last two years and there should be enough of a base that next year the weeds should be heavily suppressed and be a lot less work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Wednesday August 21st, 2013 we hosted the Lennox and Addington Horticultural Society to a BBQ at our home. 22 people were there, and that was a good turnout. Not too many that things were crowded and more than enough to make all the work worthwhile. The work was mainly weeding the flower beds and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-garlic","category-tomatos","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","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=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}