{"id":61,"date":"2006-10-24T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2006-10-24T05:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T05:55:00","slug":"operatic-death-of-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Operatic Death of the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=Indent>OK, so we yanked out the garden on October 2.  By &#8220;yanked out&#8221; I mean to say that we tore down the tomatoes, harvested anything which was in any way shape or form edible, and left the rest &#8230; without water.  Well, we were bright people this year, and turned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watersorb.com\/\" target=_blank>WaterSorb<\/a> by way of drought protection.  <b>It worked.<\/b>  The silly garden is still cranking out produce three weeks later.  True, we didn&#8217;t really leave much &#8230; but to come back (we garden at some friends&#8217; house) to find nice, fat Armenian cucumbers is just rather a shock.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>We&#8217;ll be adding more WaterSorb next year, too, &#8217;cause the stuff degrades in about 5 years, so we added only 1\/5 what the recommended quantity was, planning on adding that same amount every year, so that it&#8217;d be fairly constant.  It should be interesting to see what happens when it&#8217;s got twice as much drought protection.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>It truly is much like watching a Ballet demise, though.  Scary.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Now, back to reinstalling software from the ground up &#8230; to make things nice and fresh for the next client.  Sigh.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so we yanked out the garden on October 2. By &#8220;yanked out&#8221; I mean to say that we tore down the tomatoes, harvested anything which was in any way shape or form edible, and left the rest &#8230; without water. Well, we were bright people this year, and turned in WaterSorb by way of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}