{"id":1016,"date":"2010-08-19T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2010-08-19T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:09:48","slug":"cabbage-and-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"Cabbage and Broccoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1017\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/before.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1017\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1017\" title=\"Cucumber Patch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/before.png\" alt=\"Cucumber Patch\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cucumber Patch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This years cucumbers ran out of steam a few weeks ago, and I&#8217;ve stopped weeding them. Above you can see just how quickly pigweed can overtake the garden. The brown mass in the center is a pile of weeds harvested from the other side of the pole beans, where we&#8217;ve planted fall cucumbers. I&#8217;ve found if you pile the weeds up and let them rot, they will turn into black bio mass.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1018\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/after.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1018\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1018\" title=\"After Weeding and Working the Soil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/after.png\" alt=\"After Weeding and Working the Soil\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After Weeding and Working the Soil<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the same spot an hour or two later. Notice the pile of weeds in the left hand side towards the top ? They all came from that small patch of the garden. Once they were removed, I worked the soil to break it up, and loosen it a bit.\u00a0When I was ready for the seeds, the sun was long gone, and helpers were needed. Jen and Adonica held flashlights as I dug a small trench and placed the seeds. I had a packet of cabbage seed, and one of broccoli, each containing twice as many seeds as needed. Since this is a fall planting, I will need to sheild the dirt from the direct sun to encourage germination. I&#8217;m thinking a tarp will do the trick, but first I will sidedress them with some rabbit and goat manure, as I&#8217;ve learned from the Winter Squashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This years cucumbers ran out of steam a few weeks ago, and I&#8217;ve stopped weeding them. Above you can see just how quickly pigweed can overtake the garden. The brown mass in the center is a pile of weeds harvested &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1016\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,25],"tags":[198,698,444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}