{"id":76,"date":"2025-12-02T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T01:26:48","slug":"maintenance-compost-citrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/02\/maintenance-compost-citrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintenance, Compost, Citrus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I pulled out one tomato plant from the latest batch. It wasn&#8217;t diseased, but it wasn&#8217;t growing well or setting fruit, so I chopped it and added it to the compost pile. I also pruned a few green branches from the in-ground tomato plants, mainly the lower ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I turned the compost pile and added a lot to it: that tomato plant, three bags of kitchen scraps from the 5-gallon bucket, and a thick layer of brown leaves the gardener collected. I&#8217;m trying to get the pile hot again so there&#8217;s usable compost by spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also bought our first citrus tree: a semi-dwarf Improved Meyer lemon. I watered lightly to check drainage and the top inch dried faster than expected, which seems promising. We picked up a 15-gallon pot, and the plan is to switch to Gary&#8217;s Top Pot mix later this week when I up-pot it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pulled out one tomato plant from the latest batch. It wasn&#8217;t diseased, but it wasn&#8217;t growing well or setting fruit, so I chopped it and added it to the compost pile. I also pruned a few green branches from the in-ground tomato plants, mainly the lower ones. I turned the compost pile and added [&hellip;]<\/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-76","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\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/257"}],"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=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}