{"id":1479,"date":"2011-03-18T15:17:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2011-03-18T15:17:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T19:17:44","slug":"chard-under-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1479","title":{"rendered":"Chard: Under Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1480\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1480\" title=\"Swiss Chard - Grown Under a Row Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/cover.png\" alt=\"Swiss Chard - Grown Under a Row Cover\" width=\"540\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swiss Chard - Grown Under a Row Cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided that 2011 will be the year I finally move my gardening habit into the cooler weather seasons. I&#8217;ve gotten a start from a row of Swiss Chard that was planted in the spring of last year. I noticed at the tail end of February that these plants were still setting new growth, and I decided to cover the row as a way to help the plants produce earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I&#8217;ve used a row cover to get a jump on the season, and I&#8217;m fairly surprised at how easy it is, and how well it works. I also wanted to show the difference between the plants which have been protected, and the ones which have felt the full brunt of the late winter snow.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1481\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/exposed.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1481\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1481\" title=\"Swiss Chard - Fully Exposed to Weather\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/exposed.png\" alt=\"Swiss Chard - Fully Exposed to Weather\" width=\"540\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swiss Chard - Fully Exposed to Weather<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The exposed chard isn&#8217;t looking too good. Many of the leaves are wilted, and I doubt they are edible, never mind tasty. There is one small leaf in the photo which might sustain a cricket for a day, but It would be nearly useless for a human snack.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230;. To find more plastic to use as a row cover for some soon to be planted lettuce.<\/p>\n<p>I should also note that I&#8217;ve planted my Artichoke and Brussels Sprouts seeds on March 14th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided that 2011 will be the year I finally move my gardening habit into the cooler weather seasons. I&#8217;ve gotten a start from a row of Swiss Chard that was planted in the spring of last year. I noticed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1479\">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":[10,21,30,63],"tags":[481,516],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"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=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}