{"id":930,"date":"2009-12-20T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eloine.com\/gardenblog\/?p=636"},"modified":"2009-12-20T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T19:17:00","slug":"ah-the-season-to-be-lazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/archives\/930","title":{"rendered":"Ah the season to be lazy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least that&#8217;s what it seems like. One would think with it being dark and dreary there isn&#8217;t much to do in the garden but it seems to be just the opposite. I haven&#8217;t posted in a while. Mainly because my garden hasn&#8217;t been doing too well. It&#8217;s a little sick and no one wants to blog about their failures. That&#8217;s just depressing! I seem to have a drainage problem and that has just drowned my plants and it&#8217;s not an easy fix. The sand at the bottom was not a good idea so I am going to use gravel instead. A lot of heavy lifting! It&#8217;s all so overwhelming. Now that I have had my grieving period of why me I think I can get back into it stronger and start to take one step at a time at getting this garden back into shape. Not only do I have a drainage problem but several days of hard frost have killed most things so it&#8217;s time to redo my containers and to start getting my seeds in order. I will post later about all the seeds I have and I have quite a few! I have more seeds than I have places to put them but if I plan this right I will know what to plant when and have greater success. I have been surfing the web to find the right planting calendar and I&#8217;ve found some really nice ones but unfortunately they are never for my zone. I am in zone 9 with it being a little colder and hotter than usual for zone 9 in this pocket of Byron CA but I still seem to fall into that area according to the charts.<\/p>\n<p>So below are some links I thought I would share that help you figure out what to plant and when. I need to make my own based of these great ideas below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First of a good guide on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevegetablegarden.info\/resources\/companion-plants\">companion planting<\/a> and what works and what doesn&#8217;t<\/li>\n<li>This a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevegetablegarden.info\/resources\/planting-schedules\/zones-9-10-planting-schedule\">zone 9-10 schedul<\/a>e with a little extra information about the planting<\/li>\n<li>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almanac.com\/content\/frost-chart-united-states#chart\">frost chart of the first and last for your area<\/a>. I am choosing Sacramento because that is the closest to me. That is Feb 14 so if I just remember Valentines day in my head that will work. I had a garden lady tell me to always remember Thanksgiving as the last day for planting tulips. Although according to this chart Dec 1 is the first frost.<\/li>\n<li>This is not my zone but I like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.main.org\/aog\/plantcal.htm\">simplicity of the creation<\/a> and the possibility of maintaining. It&#8217;s just showing the windows of time you have to start planting.<\/li>\n<li>This is really need because you<a href=\"http:\/\/bioarray.us\/Skippy's%20planting%20calendar.html\"> just plug in the dates<\/a> and then it generates a time chart for you however you can&#8217;t add any task to it so it&#8217;s use it limited.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps even an <a href=\"http:\/\/timssquarefootgarden.com\/calendar.htm\">easier list to maintain<\/a> since it&#8217;s just text<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least that&#8217;s what it seems like. One would think with it being dark and dreary there isn&#8217;t much to do in the garden but it seems to be just the opposite. I haven&#8217;t posted in a while. Mainly because my garden hasn&#8217;t been doing too well. It&#8217;s a little sick and no one wants [&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":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}