{"id":6473,"date":"2020-05-22T09:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2020-05-22T10:57:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:57:40","slug":"progress-new-raised-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6473","title":{"rendered":"Progress: New Raised Beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a day-long break in the rain yesterday, so I put some work into rebuilding the raised beds. I transported all of the small blocks to the new garden area. There&#8217;s a pile of not-yet-composted material (and some clay soil) that will need to get hauled over to our new compost area &#8230; but that&#8217;s the last step.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=6474\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_194535-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_194535-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_194535-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_194535-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_194535-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_194535-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_194535.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also got a tightly packed leaf layer along the bottom of the bed. Reading about building raised beds on existing lawn, people put down a layer of cardboard or newspaper to prevent the existing plants from invading the garden. It&#8217;ll rain all day today, and we&#8217;ll stomp it down again tomorrow. Then there&#8217;s a bunch of dirt to haul before I can get some plants out into the new garden space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=6475\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_185138-947x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"947\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_185138-947x1024.jpg 947w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_185138-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_185138-768x831.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_185138-1420x1536.jpg 1420w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_185138-750x811.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_20200521_185138.jpg 1893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 947px) 100vw, 947px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a day-long break in the rain yesterday, so I put some work into rebuilding the raised beds. I transported all of the small blocks to the new garden area. There&#8217;s a pile of not-yet-composted material (and some clay soil) that will need to get hauled over to our new compost area &#8230; but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[971,38,972],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homesteading","tag-garden","tag-gardening","tag-raised-beds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6479,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}