{"id":1212,"date":"2010-10-29T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2010-10-29T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:24:00","slug":"direct-seeded-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1212","title":{"rendered":"Direct Seeded Broccoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1213\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/direct-seeded-broccoli.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1213\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1213\" title=\"Direct Seeded Broccoli\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/direct-seeded-broccoli.png\" alt=\"Direct Seeded Broccoli\" width=\"540\" height=\"651\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Direct Seeded Broccoli<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On August 19, I planted some broccoli and cabbage. A few weeks later, I released my chickens to roam free for the winter. What I found out is that chickens like to eat healthy too, so I&#8217;ve had to put up a small fence to keep them out. I didn&#8217;t have much wire, so I choose the group of plants that looked the most promising, and placed the wire around them. They are growing fairly well, and I&#8217;m actually looking forward to eating some broccoli. I&#8217;m not a big fan of most cold weather veggies, but when you grow your own food, it always tastes better. I figure I can stomach them if I add a little cheese, or maybe some bacon and cheese&#8230;. now that sounds good !<\/p>\n<p>The cabbage is also growing pretty well, but I&#8217;ve only got a few plants protected, so there won&#8217;t be enough to make home made sauerkraut. I hope to build a chicken house before spring, and attach a fairly large run for them. Then maybe I can grow a larger cool season garden. It just doesn&#8217;t feel right not having row after row of veggies. Spring won&#8217;t be here soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 19, I planted some broccoli and cabbage. A few weeks later, I released my chickens to roam free for the winter. What I found out is that chickens like to eat healthy too, so I&#8217;ve had to put &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1212\">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":[25],"tags":[198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"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=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}