{"id":269,"date":"2025-12-10T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:30:13","slug":"small-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/10\/small-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The compost pile is holding at about 106\u00b0F in the hottest section. I’m hoping yesterday’s turning didn’t slow it down too much. I plan to leave it alone for a few days and see if it climbs higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I watered the lemon tree again after a few dry days at the surface. I keep finding conflicting advice on citrus watering, which isn’t surprising. Most of the contradiction seems to come from vague context. Someone in a cool, wet climate might water once a week. Someone in Southern California in summer might water daily or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consistent thread is this: container lemons want evenly moist soil in a fast-draining mix so roots never sit in stagnant water. For now, I’m watering this two-foot-tall tree in its 5-gallon nursery pot about every two to three days. It’s December in Yucaipa and warmer than normal, about 75\u00b0F today. But likely dropping into the 60s over the next few weeks. With shorter days and cooler nights, water is lingering in containers much longer than it did in summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I planned to spray insecticidal soap on the potatoes and beans today, but the heat picked up faster than expected, so I pushed that to tomorrow. I pruned several badly damaged potato leaves and removed one nearly dead plant from the west planter near the last rose bush. That spot was always a gamble. It’s crowded, and I planted there mostly because I had too many potatoes and the soil looked fertile. I left just the stem. Whether it rebounds or not, the data point is useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The compost pile is holding at about 106\u00b0F in the hottest section. I’m hoping yesterday’s turning didn’t slow it down too much. I plan to leave it alone for a few days and see if it climbs higher. I watered the lemon tree again after a few dry days at the surface. I keep finding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","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\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}