{"id":2123,"date":"2015-03-26T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2015-03-26T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T11:30:00","slug":"drying-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/2015\/03\/26\/drying-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Drying Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been a warm summer, one without much rain.\u00a0 In fact, our February was very hot and very dry and very windy.\u00a0 The hot dry wind\u00a0helped dry out our gardens as much as the heat.\u00a0\u00a0 It is now March, and we still are having hot dry days.\u00a0 This should be fall weather but it’s still summer weather.\u00a0 We have only a garden hose\u00a0with which to irrigate.\u00a0\u00a0It takes three hours to water each garden bed (so six hours for two beds) and that is with one bed not planted.\u00a0 It takes three hours to water the pecan trees.\u00a0 It takes three hours to water the citrus trees.\u00a0 It takes an hour to water was little was planted in the under-construction greenhouses. So things get watered on a rotation basis.\u00a0 Let no one forget that this\u00a0means managing the water tanks so we keep them full enough without pulling\u00a0so much water from the well that it\u00a0has a chance to refill.\u00a0 \u00a0Then there are the animal troughs to keep filled, the cows drink a lot when it is hot and the sheep too, and the rabbits and chickens need an afternoon water refill also.<\/p>\n

Therefore the garden has been drying out and we are harvesting the last of the crop.\u00a0 It is not just us, the entire community is in the same position. Conversation revolves around who got rain who had the clouds pass over but not drop any water.<\/p>\n

Here is our thirsty garden:<\/p>\n

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Squash and watermelon are our last crops this season.\u00a0 The next set of crops will be hardy winter plants.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has been a warm summer, one without much rain.\u00a0 In fact, our February was very hot and very dry and very windy.\u00a0 The hot dry wind\u00a0helped dry out our gardens as much as the heat.\u00a0\u00a0 It is now March, and we still are having hot dry days.\u00a0 This should be fall weather but it’s … Continue reading Drying Out<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":34327803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6BeCJ-yf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34327803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}