{"id":1849,"date":"2012-05-23T06:37:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T11:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowpop.com\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2019-02-17T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T21:13:08","slug":"garden-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/2012\/05\/23\/garden-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This year, instead of buying potting soil, we made our own by mixing top soil and our compost. We have excellent soil in the backyard and you can’t dig up a plant without having a worm hanging on to it. I read that potting soil had a lot of chemicals that were harmful to worms so we decided to go a more ecological route. I was fearful at first because I’ve only had experience using store bought soil but with our thriving garden, I am now a believer.<\/p>\n

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I had to make something to support the tomatoes so I used the PVC pipe that Andy made to hold up the raised bed’s tarp in case of inclement weather to fashion a trellis.<\/p>\n

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I also used bamboo sticks to make a trellis for the peas too. Let’s hope both trellises hold up.<\/p>\n

I’ve been using the herbs a lot and they probably have paid for half of the cost of the garden already. But my biggest discovery is that I really like swiss chard.<\/p>\n

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I grew it for mostly ornamental reasons but my friend Britt told me to cook them with heavy cream and they were heavenly. I also added garlic and leek from the garden and bacon and it was just perfect over some pasta.<\/p>\n

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This year, instead of buying potting soil, we made our own by mixing top soil and our compost. We have excellent soil in the backyard and you can’t dig up a plant without having a worm hanging on to it. I read that potting soil had a lot of chemicals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yellowpop","ct-col-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff.lucyindysky.com\/yellowpop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}