{"id":21585,"date":"2013-08-05T08:34:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T14:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21585"},"modified":"2013-08-05T08:34:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T14:34:40","slug":"garden-diary-august-5-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21585","title":{"rendered":"Garden Diary:  August 5, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \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 New (State Fair) Moon<\/p>\n<p>Nutrient drench today: \u00a0Inferno. \u00a0The weekly spraying of brixblaster and qualify. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0653.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21586\" title=\"IMAG0653\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0653-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0653-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0653-577x1024.jpg 577w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMAG0653.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>twice monthly spraying of Showtime. \u00a0Inferno is a liquid fertilizer. \u00a0 Brixblaster encourages the plant to put its energy into reproductive growth such as flowers, fruits, vegetables like tomatoes, tomatillos, eggplant, cucumber, carrots, peppers. \u00a0Qualify encourages vegetative growth: \u00a0broccoli, cabbage, beets, chard, leeks, herbs. \u00a0Showtime, an oil based product, helps plants repel foraging insects.<\/p>\n<p>A busy early morning in the garden. The results so far have been solid, so I&#8217;ll keep it up and add the orchard this fall. \u00a0I need to check the bees and put on the food safe miticide hopgard but working with bees when the sky is overcast is advised against. \u00a0Without the sun bees don&#8217;t travel as much so they&#8217;re at home. \u00a0More easy to rile them. \u00a0Wednesday will be plenty of time<\/p>\n<p>There are still limbs to move, two trunks to cut into firewood and four large branches to cut into kindling. \u00a0That bee area still has to get cleared. \u00a0The tasks don&#8217;t end as long as the growing season is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa \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 New (State Fair) Moon Nutrient drench today: \u00a0Inferno. \u00a0The weekly spraying of brixblaster and qualify. \u00a0The twice monthly spraying of Showtime. \u00a0Inferno is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=21585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Diary:  August 5, 2013<\/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":[87,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-our-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21585","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=21585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21588,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21585\/revisions\/21588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}