{"id":578,"date":"2020-03-26T23:34:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T23:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/?p=578"},"modified":"2021-04-05T18:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T18:33:59","slug":"peas-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/2020\/03\/26\/peas-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Peas etc."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A big day in gardening at our house. It\u2019s always exciting when we get the peas in the ground. This year they have their own private trellis instead of climbing up the outside of the chicken run. The chickens were not kind to the pea vines last year. We\u2019re planting very early for Maine, but it\u2019s been such a mild winter and the soil was in good shape for planting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We planted Red Kitten spinach down one side and Winter Lettuce down the other to fill in the bed as the peas climb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Newly planted peas, spinach, lettuce. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There is also continuing activity in making up soil blocks and caring for seedlings. Tomatoes, tomatillo, ground cherry, broccoli, leeks, shallots, Cippollini onions, cabbage, cauliflower, celery. Started three types of pepper today: King of the North, Jimmy Nardello, and Red Rocket (hot – more on that below). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small scale soil blocking operation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Broccoli seedlings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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New tomato seedlings and peppers getting extra heat under plastic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the gardening lifecycle, I decided to process the dried Red Rocket peppers that have been hanging in the kitchen since last fall. First goal was to get some seeds to plant, then I decided to carry on and use the spice grinder to make some home ground cayenne pepper. This enterprise had us coughing most of the afternoon as cayenne particles dispersed everywhere. Sort of like the coronavirus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ristreta of sorts with 2019 peppers \u201cRed Rocket\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pepper seed, skin, and pods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A big day in gardening at our house. It\u2019s always exciting when we get the peas in the ground. This year they have their own private trellis instead of climbing up the outside of the chicken run. The chickens were not kind to the pea vines last year. We\u2019re planting very early for Maine, but… Continue reading Peas etc.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,95,158,89,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peas","category-planting","category-red-rocket","category-seeds","category-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/@XRoad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}