{"id":7649,"date":"2010-09-04T17:54:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T23:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7649"},"modified":"2016-05-15T14:16:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:16:44","slug":"waning-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7649","title":{"rendered":"Waning Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Artemis Moon<\/p>\n<p>The evening of a fine day is a silk garment laid on to welcome the night.\u00a0 It caresses, soothes.\u00a0 It wraps itself around the shoulders and extends a brief embrace as light fades and the stars come out.\u00a0 It is, as my ancestors knew, a sacred time.<\/p>\n<p>These days of September are the evening of the growing season, a transition to the colder, fallow season of late fall and early winter.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad they&#8217;re here.<\/p>\n<p>As with each day, each week, each month of the growing season there are tasks appropriate to the time.\u00a0 Here are a few of the ones we have left:<\/p>\n<p>Garden<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>put a riser on the irrigation head nearest the deck<\/li>\n<li>put composted manure and\/or compost on the raised beds<\/li>\n<li>Weed\u00a0 perennials<\/li>\n<li>harvest potatoes, beets, greens, tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>save seeds:\u00a0 tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>plant bulbs<\/li>\n<li>plant garlic<\/li>\n<li>transplant:\u00a0 gooseberries, hosta, bugbane<\/li>\n<li>black plastic and mulch along truck path<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bees<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sample for varroe mites and nosema<\/li>\n<li>check honey and pollen supply<\/li>\n<li>feed if necessary<\/li>\n<li>in november prepare for winter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 Waning Artemis Moon The evening of a fine day is a silk garment laid on to welcome the night.\u00a0 It caresses, soothes.\u00a0 It wraps itself around the shoulders and extends a brief embrace as light fades and the stars come out.\u00a0 It is, as my ancestors knew, a sacred time. These days of September &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=7649\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waning Day<\/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":[1268,87,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-garden","category-weather-climate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649","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=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41223,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions\/41223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}