{"id":21174,"date":"2013-07-12T09:23:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21174"},"modified":"2013-07-12T09:23:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:23:39","slug":"lilies-leeks-and-lumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21174","title":{"rendered":"Lilies, Leeks and Lumber"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 First Harvest Moon<\/p>\n

Today, again, harvesting trees. \u00a0This time black locust, a thorny tree that grows fast and germinates easily. \u00a0In olden days fence posts, foundation posts, anything requiring a sturdy rot-resistant wood were common uses of the black locust. \u00a0This tree will get used as firewood for the great Woolly ingathering here on Monday.<\/p>\n

Other hardwood trees like oak, in particular, but ash and maple and others as well, require a year or two of drying to get their moisture content below 20%. \u00a0Black locust is a low moisture wood even when it’s alive.<\/p>\n

In felling this tree my directional cut was at a slight angle and the tree came down on our vegetable garden fence. \u00a0But. \u00a0Fortuna was with me. \u00a0The main branch that hit the fence landed right on top of a fence post, square cedar. It didn’t mind at all. \u00a0May have sunk a bit lower in the earth. A slight dent in the gate where a smaller top branch made impact, otherwise, the fence came through fine. \u00a0Whew. \u00a0Felling trees is art as well as science and I mishandled this one.<\/p>\n

Early this morning I sprayed Enthuse, a product to generally spiff plants, give them an energy boost. \u00a0That was over all the vegetables and the blooming lilies. \u00a0The lilies are my favorite flowers by far and almost all of the varieties that I have I purchased at the North Star lily sale last spring. \u00a0These are lilies grown here, hardy for our winters. \u00a0Here are pictures of the current state of the gardens and preparations for the Woolly homecoming.<\/p>\n

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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 First Harvest Moon Today, again, harvesting trees. \u00a0This time black locust, a thorny tree that grows fast and germinates easily. \u00a0In olden days fence posts, foundation posts, … Continue reading Lilies, Leeks and Lumber<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,9,127,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-garden","category-great-work","category-health","category-our-land","category-woolly-mammoths","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174","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=21174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21180,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21174\/revisions\/21180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}