{"id":282,"date":"2025-12-14T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:31:54","slug":"maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/14\/maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default 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\/2025-12-08_leaves2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2250\" height=\"3000\" data-id=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-08_leaves2-2250x3000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-08_leaves2-2250x3000.jpg 2250w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-08_leaves2-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-08_leaves2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-08_leaves2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-08_leaves2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-08_leaves2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2250px) 100vw, 2250px\" \/><\/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\/2025-12-14_leaves-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"3000\" data-id=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-14_leaves-3000x3000.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-14_leaves-3000x3000.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-14_leaves-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-14_leaves-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-14_leaves-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-14_leaves-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-14_leaves-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The compost pile was at 111\u00b0F this morning. I added more cardboard to cover exposed areas and to help hold moisture and heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I collected a full trash bag of leaves and started a second batch of leaf mold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watered the lemon tree with half-strength Jack&#8217;s 20-20-20. I also used Jack&#8217;s on the beans, onions in grow bags, and the peas. For the beans, I mixed a small amount of Gary&#8217;s Top Pot, alfalfa meal, and Trifecta+, then worked it in at the base of the plants. A lot of soil there has washed away over time from rain, watering, and pulling straw mulch back from the stems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I crushed dry leaves and scattered them around the bean plants as a thin mulch. It&#8217;s probably too light, so I&#8217;ll revisit that tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The compost pile was at 111\u00b0F this morning. I added more cardboard to cover exposed areas and to help hold moisture and heat. I collected a full trash bag of leaves and started a second batch of leaf mold. I watered the lemon tree with half-strength Jack&#8217;s 20-20-20. I also used Jack&#8217;s on the beans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","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\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}