{"id":20391,"date":"2021-06-27T14:53:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=20391"},"modified":"2021-06-27T14:53:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:53:37","slug":"front-porch-gardening-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2021\/06\/front-porch-gardening-contd\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Porch Gardening, cont’d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before continuing …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes … YIKES!!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is that I have all three of my behemoth A\/C units set up and running. Provided we have no electricity supply issues, Emmett and I will be cool :)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, Front porch gardening …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I filled out the tiered planter with some herbs: 2 varieties of thyme and some coleus and impatiens for color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AND, I bought 3 tomato plants: 2 “Husky Cherry” and 1 “Manitoba”. Both are low, shrub kind of plants that should do well in containers … hopefully!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A moveable “garden” … tomatoes in fabric planters in the wheelbarrow (for now) and the tiered planter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of the wheelie things allow a chasing of the sun!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early days, but so far … all is doing well and no overnight critter munching!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I know it is likely to be mid or end of August before I have tomatoes (assuming things continue well), but one of the cherry tomato plants has a wee tomato and some blossoms. VERY exciting :)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile … We take MANY “sprinkler” breaks!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am using time playing in the sprinkler as a reward for coming when called and generally good behavior of any sort. It also gives ME (and my back) a break as I do the “gardening” and other outside chores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So.Much.Fun !!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sprinkler head!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Small batch of potato and egg for potato salad. I captured in a video (soon :) ), but Instant Pot to the rescue for summer cooking: steamed beets, pasta for pasta salad and the above potato salad fixings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Morning after planting … Tomatoes set to catch the first morning sun…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lovely, cool, early morning … from the front porch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sharing, next to me … a little fuzzy critter on the impatiens!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we go, Summer! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FROM the front porch :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before continuing … Yes … YIKES!!! The good news is that I have all three of my behemoth A\/C units set up and running. Provided we have no electricity supply issues, Emmett and I will be cool :) So, Front porch gardening … I filled out the tiered planter with some herbs: 2 varieties of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20409,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions\/20409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}