{"id":2223,"date":"2010-11-09T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2010-11-09T09:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T14:42:42","slug":"the-garden-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"The garden in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/garden-november-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/garden-november-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"garden-november-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2224\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Winter rye grass<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Back in October, I used the tiller to work 650 pounds of organic fertilizers into the garden area, then I sowed winter rye as a cover crop. The rye grass is doing well. Not only will it make a nice winter cover crop, it also should serve as a great source of winter greens for the chickens. Each morning when I let them out of the chicken house, they immediately start eating grass and clover. They have a craving for greens. I&#8217;m pretty sure that it&#8217;s the chlorophyll that gives their egg yolks such a deep orange color.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/garden-november-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/garden-november-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"garden-november-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Beets<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The beets and turnips have survived the light frosts and freezes we&#8217;ve had so far. I want to let them grow as long as possible, but I&#8217;ll have to pull them all the day before the first really hard freeze is forecast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/garden-november-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/garden-november-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"garden-november-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2226\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A frostbitten young fig tree<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/garden-november-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/garden-november-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"garden-november-4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2227\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Patience, looking shabby<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the hens, Patience, has been moulting. She lost her tail feathers. She looks pretty shabby at present, but I can see the new feathers coming in. She&#8217;ll need those feathers soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter rye grass Back in October, I used the tiller to work 650 pounds of organic fertilizers into the garden area, then I sowed winter rye as a cover crop. The rye grass is doing well. Not only will it make a nice winter cover crop, it also should serve as a great source of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The garden in November&#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":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","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\/2223","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=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}