{"id":20857,"date":"2013-06-26T08:51:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20857"},"modified":"2013-06-26T08:54:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:54:28","slug":"a-thinnin-and-a-mulchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20857","title":{"rendered":"A Thinnin&#8217; and A Mulchin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Solstice Moon<\/p>\n<p>After the cold and the gray comes the bright and the damp. \u00a081 degrees already at 9:30 am <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dewpoint.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20858\" title=\"dewpoint\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dewpoint.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a>with a dewpoint of 75. \u00a0That&#8217;s well beyond uncomfortable, which begins at 60. \u00a0Mulching the new lily and iris bed along with the areas Kate weeded last week followed by thinning the beets on the third tier left me with as much outside exposure as I wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like we&#8217;ll get some rain today. \u00a0A good thing since the electricity outage in the garage has crippled my irrigation clock. \u00a0No clock, no water other than rain. \u00a0That&#8217;s on the get it fixed list. \u00a0Soon.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve entered the rapid growth phase of the growing season, with the nectar flow ready to begin next week. \u00a0The compressed season makes for exaggerated rhythms, a feature of the northern garden. Like Chinese cooking, preparation is 90% of the ingredients needed to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Javier will come by some time in the next few days to price out mulch and weed suppression for the orchard and mulch for the vegetable bed paths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Solstice Moon After the cold and the gray comes the bright and the damp. \u00a081 degrees already at 9:30 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=20857\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Thinnin&#8217; and A Mulchin&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20860,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20857\/revisions\/20860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}