{"id":2771,"date":"2011-03-24T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2011-03-24T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:14:46","slug":"getting-ready-for-the-asparagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2771","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for the asparagus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/asparagus-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/asparagus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"asparagus-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2772\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We ordered 3-year-old asparagus crowns online from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asparagusgardener.com\/\">AsparagusGardener.com<\/a> in Tennessee. They should arrive any day now. Ken is digging a bed for the asparagus and amending the soil with compost, sand, and organic fertilizers.<\/p>\n<p>Asparagus is a perennial and will come back year after year, but there&#8217;ll be no asparagus to eat until next spring at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>The chickens go crazy whenever he digs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ordered 3-year-old asparagus crowns online from AsparagusGardener.com in Tennessee. They should arrive any day now. Ken is digging a bed for the asparagus and amending the soil with compost, sand, and organic fertilizers. Asparagus is a perennial and will come back year after year, but there&#8217;ll be no asparagus to eat until next spring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2771\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Getting ready for the asparagus&#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-2771","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\/2771","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=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}