{"id":30,"date":"2025-10-06T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:18:35","slug":"fertilizing-covering-pruning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/06\/fertilizing-covering-pruning\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertilizing, Covering, Pruning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I mixed Trifecta, Azomite, and worm castings and gave each established plant about a tablespoon. Younger plants got half that. I watered everything in with fish fertilizer and Jack’s. I skipped the strawberry patches except for a bit of Jack’s 20-20-20. It’s a heavy round of feeding, but I want the plants to keep pushing through the cooler weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I covered potato grow bags with cloth and did a round of pruning and training on the pumpkins and squash on the arch. I added a vertical climbing gate in the right strawberry patch for the younger pumpkin. I cracked the vine slightly while moving it, but I’m hoping it recovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mixed Trifecta, Azomite, and worm castings and gave each established plant about a tablespoon. Younger plants got half that. I watered everything in with fish fertilizer and Jack’s. I skipped the strawberry patches except for a bit of Jack’s 20-20-20. It’s a heavy round of feeding, but I want the plants to keep pushing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","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\/30","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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}