{"id":9192,"date":"2011-01-23T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2011-01-23T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T17:45:20","slug":"the-growing-season-begins-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=9192","title":{"rendered":"The Growing Season Begins. Now."},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of the Cold Month\u00a0\u00a0 -13 at 8 am today<\/p>\n

Just slept 11 hours.\u00a0 After a two-hour nap.\u00a0 And ten hours the night before.\u00a0 My body is at work, fending off this chest cold I have.\u00a0 I feel pretty good right now, but I don’t think it’s quite done.\u00a0 Still, fluids, steam baths and rest.\u00a0 That’s the ticket.<\/p>\n

Today I put some seeds in their places:\u00a0 leeks, lettuce and chard.\u00a0 The lettuce and chard, once they reach two leaves in size, will go up into the hydroponics for use now.\u00a0 The leeks will \"06-05-10_leeksandpeas670\"keep on growing, too, also up in the hydroponics once they become youngsters and not babies, but they will go in the ground outside as soon the ground can be worked. (I think.\u00a0 May be a bit later.)\u00a0 Over February, March and April other plants will follow the same process, growing up to two leaves, then getting transferred to the nutrient baths of the hydroponics.\u00a0 Each one, in its own time, will go outside to the waiting beds.\u00a0 They will augment the garlic, the strawberries, the raspberries, the asparagus already growing there.<\/p>\n

This year our planting will be more informed by several years of growing vegetables together, Kate grew some before.\u00a0 We’ll plant what we need for canning, preserving in other ways like drying and freezing.\u00a0 We’ve eaten well from our gardens over the last few years, but not as well as we could.\u00a0 There’s always room for improvement.<\/p>\n

One area for improvement is management of the orchard.\u00a0 That will occupy some serious thought in March and April.\u00a0 Fruits, especially trees, are different from vegetables, more vulnerable to insects and disease.\u00a0 We’ll see what there is to do.<\/p>\n

This will be the first growing season with Kate home full-time, so we’ll test out how that works.\u00a0 Bound to help.<\/p>\n

Then, too, in April, the bees begin to come out of their winter ball.\u00a0 I over-wintered three colonies though I’m unsure about their survival.\u00a0 I’d be surprised if all three pull through the \"06-20-10_garden_6703\"winter, but delighted.\u00a0 I’d understand if only two made it, but I’d be disappointed with one.\u00a0 I’ve got a long ways to go before I’m a good bee-keeper, but I have years to go before I sleep.\u00a0 Time enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Moon of the Cold Month\u00a0\u00a0 -13 at 8 am today Just slept 11 hours.\u00a0 After a two-hour nap.\u00a0 And ten hours the night before.\u00a0 My body is at work, fending off this chest cold I have.\u00a0 I feel pretty good right now, but I don’t think it’s quite done.\u00a0 Still, fluids, steam baths … Continue reading The Growing Season Begins. Now.<\/span> →<\/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],"tags":[1551,4367,1609,1831],"class_list":["post-9192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-garden","tag-chard","tag-hydroponics","tag-leeks","tag-lettuce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192","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=9192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9196,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9192\/revisions\/9196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}