{"id":18341,"date":"2020-04-15T11:58:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=18341"},"modified":"2020-04-15T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:59:34","slug":"what-a-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=18341","title":{"rendered":"What a spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nA very young pear<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the best parts of my day is the daily walkaround in the yard, orchard, and garden. I don’t always like what I see. A few nights ago, we had a late frost. We may have more frost tonight. But mostly what I’m seeing is a beautiful spring. Because of the pandemic, what we can grow here matters more than ever. The orchard is a particular challenge, because we have to fight insects, winds, blights, squirrels, and raccoons to get any of the fruit. This year the fight will be intense, and it’s a fight I’m determined to win.<\/p>\n

These are iPhone photos.<\/p>\n

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\nYoung peaches<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nYoung apples<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nYoung fig<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nFrostbitten fig leaves<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nSnowball bush (Hydrangea, I believe)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nNew rose shoots, regenerating after old growth was cut back<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThere’s not much to see it the garden yet, but it’s only April 15<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very young pear One of the best parts of my day is the daily walkaround in the yard, orchard, and garden. I don’t always like what I see. A few nights ago, we had a late frost. We may have more frost tonight. But mostly what I’m seeing is a beautiful spring. Because of … Continue reading “What a spring!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18354,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions\/18354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}