{"id":112,"date":"2025-03-30T15:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T23:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:16:20","slug":"fixing-the-strawberry-patches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/30\/fixing-the-strawberry-patches\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing The Strawberry Patches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of the first things I tackled in the backyard was figuring out why the two strawberry patches were holding so much water. The left patch was empty. The right one held a dense stand of strawberries that Bryon has kept going for years. Long before I started gardening, he would pick strawberries there with Ivy. Alena remembers doing the same at her grandparents’ house, so I think having this strawberry patch here is a nice tradition that Bryon wanted to do for his grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After digging around, I found broken PVC pipes in both patches. I replaced the damaged sections and capped the sprinklers. I wanted to switch this area to hand watering for two reasons. First, even with the plumbing fixed, the soil still held water too well. Second, I read that overhead watering, especially with sprinklers, can be a problem for some plants. Longer term, drip irrigation will be the play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amending the soil has taken real effort. Some areas smelled sour at first, which lines up with how waterlogged it had been. We’ve kept adding organic matter and planting a mix of things to slowly improve structure and biology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the first things I tackled in the backyard was figuring out why the two strawberry patches were holding so much water. The left patch was empty. The right one held a dense stand of strawberries that Bryon has kept going for years. Long before I started gardening, he would pick strawberries there with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}