{"id":2687,"date":"2011-03-04T17:04:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T22:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2011-03-04T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T22:04:50","slug":"grass-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2687","title":{"rendered":"Grass maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/grass-maintenance.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/grass-maintenance.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"grass-maintenance\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2688\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every spring and every fall, the grass gets the same treatment: lime, fertilizer, and more seed. We also repair bare spots and pick up rocks. Today we picked up almost a wheelbarrow load of rocks while working on smoothing out one of the remaining rough areas of the yard.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Ken planted two holly trees, two more arbor vitae trees, two forsythia bushes, a rhododendron, and a number of small plants. Rain is forecast for the weekend, so everything is in ahead of the rain.<\/p>\n<p>If the weather cooperates, we remain on target for a productive spring. Depending on the long-range weather forecast, we may plant the cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, etc., next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every spring and every fall, the grass gets the same treatment: lime, fertilizer, and more seed. We also repair bare spots and pick up rocks. Today we picked up almost a wheelbarrow load of rocks while working on smoothing out one of the remaining rough areas of the yard. Yesterday Ken planted two holly trees, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grass maintenance&#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-2687","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\/2687","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=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}