{"id":52,"date":"2025-11-08T17:32:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:24:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:24:45","slug":"preparing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/08\/preparing\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pictured above are some of the wildflowers Ivy and I planted a while back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I finished cutting down the tithonia, composted what made sense, and put the rest in the green bin. I pulled back the straw mulch and added a small amount of Trifecta and a 1-inch layer of Black Kow compost before laying down fresh straw. I’ll likely plant onions there later; there’s already a row of radishes in front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I added an olla to the middle of the area and another one up the hill near the first mini-row of mustard. I also placed a 5-gallon bucket with tiny holes at the top-left section of the hill, which stays very dry. There were a lot of ants under the woodchips there. Maybe they will appreciate the moisture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the grow light at my desk, I watered three 1-gallon pots with Jack’s 20-20-20. Peppermint and catnip have just barely sprouted; the lavender still hasn’t shown up after 15 days. Fertilizing them now was probably premature. These plants all start slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pictured above are some of the wildflowers Ivy and I planted a while back. I finished cutting down the tithonia, composted what made sense, and put the rest in the green bin. I pulled back the straw mulch and added a small amount of Trifecta and a 1-inch layer of Black Kow compost before laying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","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\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}