{"id":129,"date":"2025-03-31T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:17:09","slug":"weeding-mulching-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/weeding-mulching-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeding, Mulching, Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132\" style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter4-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-130\" style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter4-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter5-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131\" style=\"aspect-ratio:16\/9\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter5-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-03-31_planter5-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I buried the pvc pipe that was exposed, removed some weeds, and aerated the soil a bit. I used landscape fabric and put cedar mulch down. It looked really nice for the first couple of months. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever use that fabric again where I will be planting stuff. Too much of a pain to cut out when I need to get to the soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I buried the pvc pipe that was exposed, removed some weeds, and aerated the soil a bit. I used landscape fabric and put cedar mulch down. It looked really nice for the first couple of months. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever use that fabric again where I will be planting stuff. Too much of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","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\/129","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=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}