{"id":363,"date":"2008-04-19T08:24:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T15:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2008-04-19T08:24:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T15:24:34","slug":"gardening-with-raised-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Gardening with raised beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wraised-bed.JPG' title='wraised-bed.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wraised-bed.JPG' alt='wraised-bed.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>My first raised bed. This one will soon have tomatoes in it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I plan to garden using raised beds. If you do some Googling or ask someone who uses them, you&#8217;ll find they have a number of advantages. A couple of advantages that aren&#8217;t often mentioned: They make life easier for inexperienced gardeners like me. And they make it easier to work using only hand tools.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to start collecting a bunch of powered machinery. It costs a lot of money, they have to be stored somewhere, they require maintenance, they make noise, and they use fuel. I want to try to do as much as I can using simple hand tools.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll build a couple more of these raised beds during the next week or so. They&#8217;re not that much trouble to make, and they&#8217;re not that expensive. About $40 in posts, and about $70 for the commercial topsoil and composted cow manure to put in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first raised bed. This one will soon have tomatoes in it. I plan to garden using raised beds. If you do some Googling or ask someone who uses them, you&#8217;ll find they have a number of advantages. A couple of advantages that aren&#8217;t often mentioned: They make life easier for inexperienced gardeners like me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gardening with raised beds&#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-363","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\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}