{"id":2171,"date":"2010-10-20T10:02:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2010-10-20T10:02:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T15:02:43","slug":"blums-alamanac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2171","title":{"rendered":"Blum&#039;s Almanac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blum.jpg' title='blum.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/blum.jpg' alt='blum.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, while talking with a neighbor who has been gardening in this area for a long time, I asked him how he decides when to plant particular things. His response: &#8220;I use the almanac.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t even ask him <em>which<\/em> almanac, because I just assumed that he meant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blumsalmanac.com\/\">Blum&#8217;s Almanac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blum&#8217;s Almanac is published in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (about 25 miles from here), and the 2011 edition is its 183rd year. My grandparents always had this almanac, and I believe they planted by it. Though the almanac was an icon of my childhood, as an adult I&#8217;ve never used an almanac. My first question (and I don&#8217;t know the answer) is how an almanac can give planting dates without reference to the planter&#8217;s latitude and altitude. So I have a lot to learn about how an almanac works and how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>But I intent to start. I ordered a three-year subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, while talking with a neighbor who has been gardening in this area for a long time, I asked him how he decides when to plant particular things. His response: &#8220;I use the almanac.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t even ask him which almanac, because I just assumed that he meant Blum&#8217;s Almanac. Blum&#8217;s Almanac is published in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blum&#039;s Almanac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-way-we-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","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=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}