{"id":990,"date":"2013-03-10T21:43:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T01:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=990"},"modified":"2013-03-11T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T01:51:09","slug":"lots-got-done-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Lots got done this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Started getting the beds ready in both the front and backyard. I can’t get to the Fairmount recycling center during the week (close at 3PM) and their weekend hours don’t begin until April), so I loaded some Lowe’s manure\/compost<\/a> into all five banks. I’d cut Peat Moss in already, so there should be plenty of natural, aerating components in the ground. <\/p>\n

I’m debating adding some vermiculite as well. While I really like the intensive gardening approach (Mel’s mix is 1\/3 compost, 1\/3 vermiculite, and 1\/3 peat moss), I’d like to know more about the science of how this works. It feels like there should be some academic writing about a different soil composition is absolutely necessary in order to load up a garden this way, but I don’t feel like looking for it right now. I do know that there are crazy thick books about soil and I know that’s not going to get read. I’d also like to see what was there before Mel Bartholomew; where did he get his idea from? Had no one else ever attempted this way of growing things? (His book offers no clues). <\/p>\n

Either way, I went to a great seminar hosted by the Penn State Extension Service Saturday<\/a> morning on Square Foot Gardening. While there was no shortage of earnest folks — is this a necessary trait for gardeners or simply for folks who go to seminars on Saturday morning — it was a well constructed, well-organized, seminar that moved fast and had lots of good information. <\/p>\n

One interesting point: worry less about what compost you use and more about using multiple sources. I need to dig more into this topic, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Started getting the beds ready in both the front and backyard. I can’t get to the Fairmount recycling center during the week (close at 3PM) and their weekend hours don’t begin until April), so I loaded some Lowe’s manure\/compost into all five banks. I’d cut Peat Moss in already, so there should be plenty of … Continue reading Lots got done this weekend<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-fY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}