{"id":10173,"date":"2020-05-02T11:43:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T16:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2020-05-02T11:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T16:43:40","slug":"notes-from-the-garden-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10173","title":{"rendered":"notes from the garden: april 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fell asleep while photos were uploading last night, so we&#8217;re getting my post this morning instead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The garden doesn&#8217;t know the world is falling apart. It just knows that rain has been falling and the temperatures have been pleasant for stretching a little taller each day. So each time we show up at the plot, it looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49844785588\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"End of April at the Garden\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49844785588_eed6e73797_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"End of April at the Garden\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The violets are done for the season, so Rudi and I yank out the leaves. Because they grow by rhizome, they will be fine and will bloom again next spring (or, even, in the right conditions, in the fall). But without this step, there will be no strawberries, because the violets have dwarfed them for the most part.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49845322196\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"End of April at the Garden\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49845322196_1e217ec03c_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"End of April at the Garden\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The dahlia and gerbera daisy that I planted a couple weeks ago are bright spots in the garden, and it&#8217;s obvious from looking that the slugs think they look nice, too:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49845628392\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"End of April at the Garden\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49845628392_c8a5ba0e30_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"End of April at the Garden\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49845629717\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"End of April at the Garden\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49845629717_8e9ac59e55_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"End of April at the Garden\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The tallest of my peas have reached the top of the supports I could give them once it was obvious I might have to work with what I had, rather than being able to acquire more garden stakes. I threw the tomato cages in to pinch hit last month and the peas thought they made a great addition to my more traditional trellising:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49844785523\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"End of April at the Garden\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49844785523_ef162e3887_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"End of April at the Garden\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And they showed their pleasure with this:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49845324251\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"End of April at the Garden\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49845324251_b001f9deba_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"End of April at the Garden\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>There will be peas within the month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fell asleep while photos were uploading last night, so we&#8217;re getting my post this morning instead&#8230; The garden doesn&#8217;t know the world is falling apart. 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