{"id":653,"date":"2010-07-04T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T21:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2010-07-04T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T21:17:11","slug":"turning-problems-into-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Turning Problems Into Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_654\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/rocks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"size-full wp-image-654\" title=\"Rocks From The Garden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/rocks.png\" alt=\"Rocks From The Garden\" width=\"540\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocks From The Garden<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My garden used to be a field, and when I moved in, I mowed it, and treated it like a back yard. I don&#8217;t think it was ever used to grow crops, but it may have been horse or cow pasture. The problem with turning a field into a garden is simple: Rocks, and lots of em. There are so many rocks that Davie took a few days to build me a rock rake to pull behind my small Case tractor. This helped collect them into neat piles, but what on earth do you do with piles of rocks ? You build walkways of course.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_655\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/rocks2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-655\" class=\"size-full wp-image-655\" title=\"Making a Walkway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/rocks2.png\" alt=\"Making a Walkway\" width=\"540\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making a Walkway<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve laid down a base of larger rocks, and then covered them with small gravel. Then, I simply sprayed it all with a hose to cause the smaller rocks to settle in the cracks of the larger ones. This keeps the rocks from moving around when your walking.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_656\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/garlic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-656\" class=\"size-full wp-image-656\" title=\"Garlic Bed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/garlic.png\" alt=\"Garlic Bed\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garlic Bed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am also using the rocks as a weed suppressant, since the area between the back of my house and the greenhouse is totally out of control. I figure I&#8217;ll leave a few small areas for flowers to grow up through the rocks, such as the garlic bed above.<\/p>\n<p>I now have a new problem: I&#8217;m almost out of rock piles in the garden, so I guess I&#8217;ll have to dig a little deeper to find more, as the landscaping is only about a third of the way to completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My garden used to be a field, and when I moved in, I mowed it, and treated it like a back yard. I don&#8217;t think it was ever used to grow crops, but it may have been horse or cow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=653\">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":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}