{"id":271,"date":"2025-12-11T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:30:39","slug":"maintenance-and-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/11\/maintenance-and-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance and Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The compost pile hit about 113\u00b0F this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I gave the potatoes in grow bags a deep soak, along with the south-side wildflower strip. I watered the rest of the garden as needed. I applied a small amount of insecticidal soap to the grow-bag potatoes and an even lighter spray to the beans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I adjusted the pea supports yesterday now that they’re finally putting on some growth. That may be from the warmer days and nights we’ve had recently. I also think I gave them a very small amount of Jack’s when I fertilized the beans, but the growth uptick seemed to start before that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The compost pile hit about 113\u00b0F this morning. I gave the potatoes in grow bags a deep soak, along with the south-side wildflower strip. I watered the rest of the garden as needed. I applied a small amount of insecticidal soap to the grow-bag potatoes and an even lighter spray to the beans. I adjusted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","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\/271","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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}