{"id":800,"date":"2010-07-21T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T13:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2010-07-21T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T13:28:06","slug":"the-late-garden-is-doing-quite-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"The Late Garden is Doing Quite Well."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_801\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/chickens-and-corn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-801\" title=\"Chickens and Corn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/chickens-and-corn.png\" alt=\"Chickens and Corn\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickens and Corn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The late garden has really started growing now that rain has returned. Above the corn is just now clearing knee-high, and I still think it will grow to fruition. You can see some of the free range chickens pecking around. They haven&#8217;t yet discovered the cucumbers, so they aren&#8217;t yet destructive. I&#8217;ve even watched them rip up weeds on occasion ! I thought it was quite odd, but they\u00a0seemed to differentiate the corn from the pig weed. Perhaps it&#8217;s natural selection, as past gardeners retaliated against the destructive chickens&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_802\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/cucks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-802\" class=\"size-full wp-image-802\" title=\"Cucumbers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/cucks.png\" alt=\"Cucumbers\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cucumbers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The cucumbers\u00a0are setting small pinky sized cucks, and there are quite a few plants here.\u00a0The chickens will have to be rounded up soon, as they will certainly decimate the garden\u00a0after their first taste of a cucumber.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_803\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/sunflowers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-803\" class=\"size-full wp-image-803\" title=\"Sunflowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/sunflowers.png\" alt=\"Sunflowers\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunflowers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The sunflowers\u00a0have grown very\u00a0well lately. This garden is a very dry one on the surface. Now that the plants are starting to cover the black dirt, the sun will suck less water from the soil, and this should cause the plants to grow even faster.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_805\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/chicken-horse-and-corn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-805\" class=\"size-full wp-image-805\" title=\"Chickens, a Horse and Corn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/chicken-horse-and-corn.png\" alt=\"Chickens, a Horse and Corn\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickens, a Horse and Corn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some shots are just meant to be, and jump right out at the camera. Here we see chickens, cucumbers, corn and a horse. The chickens didn&#8217;t like me watching them, almost as if they knew this garden was off limits to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late garden has really started growing now that rain has returned. Above the corn is just now clearing knee-high, and I still think it will grow to fruition. You can see some of the free range chickens pecking around. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=800\">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":[32,39,42,66],"tags":[393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}