{"id":12,"date":"2008-12-07T22:05:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T22:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eloine.com\/gardenblog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-12-07T22:05:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T22:05:23","slug":"beeboxes-and-peacocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/archives\/12","title":{"rendered":"Beeboxes and peacocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished  getting some old bee boxes I found and recycling for planting a baby lettuce crop. I am told that since we have mild winters here we can grow them right now. I lined these up against the side fence and put chicken wire underneath to protect from gophers. I have bird netting over the top to protect from our large number of peacoks that roam the property. I have weights on the bottom so I can get in and out easily but they can&#8217;t \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I planted Ruby Queen Beets in the first two boxes next to the transplanted honey suckle vine<\/li>\n<li>Next to that bin I planted an old seed packet of spinach packed for 2007 from the garden club. Variety is &#8220;bloomsdale long standing&#8221;. We&#8217;ll see if it actually grows. It&#8217;s supposed to mature in 45 days. In the same bin I planted Chinese Lantern &#8211; also an old seed packet. We&#8217;ll see if anything sprouts. In addition the seeds being &#8217;07 I think it&#8217;s a little late in the year for planting.<\/li>\n<li>For the rest of the bins except the last two I planted the loose leaf salad bowl mix from Home depot that comes in those plastic bags.<\/li>\n<li>The very last two is a packet of Green Deer Tongue from Territorial Seed Company.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/gardenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/l-640-480-2838fddd-8bdc-4cba-95a7-d347b110fdbf.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/gardenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/l-640-480-2838fddd-8bdc-4cba-95a7-d347b110fdbf.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished getting some old bee boxes I found and recycling for planting a baby lettuce crop. I am told that since we have mild winters here we can grow them right now. I lined these up against the side fence and put chicken wire underneath to protect from gophers. I have bird netting over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bee-boxes-recycling-peacock-lettuce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}