{"id":10983,"date":"2021-01-24T01:08:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T06:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2021-01-24T04:10:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T09:10:32","slug":"notes-from-the-garden-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10983","title":{"rendered":"notes from the garden: january 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50868681888\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"January Gardening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50868681888_443264fd38_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"January Gardening\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My garden looks dead, but it is not. I harvested some rosemary today. There is also still lemon balm and peppermint. My sage has some tiny leaves on it, so I heaped leaves around it to encourage it to think warm thoughts. I believe some of my tiny leeks are still alive, and I definitely saw that some of the greens I&#8217;d planted were making an effort, as is the omnipresent sorrel. I pulled down the rest of the bulbless onion grass stalks, which are strawlike, and added them to the beds to protect what&#8217;s already been sown and might be growing under the leaf litter I leave as mulch. If I&#8217;d been smart, I would have constructed a low tunnel or cold frame earlier in the season to see if I can actually harvest greens through the winter. Maybe next year.<\/p>\n<p>This little pansy, which I planted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10547\">Labor Day weekend<\/a>, was also still giving it its all:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50869491777\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"January Pansy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50869491777_ae624255ca_w.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" alt=\"January Pansy\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I also found several fluffy seeds, which I&#8217;m guessing are milkweed. They wouldn&#8217;t get to stick around in my plot, so I re-sent them on their windy way.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/50869491777\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Fluff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50869394041_ac039c5ef4_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Fluff\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start to think about planting peas next month. If there&#8217;s a warm weekend in February, I&#8217;ll get some in then; otherwise, I&#8217;ll sow the first round in early March.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that the nice thing about a mid-Atlantic garden is that you don&#8217;t have many months where there isn&#8217;t something you can harvest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My garden looks dead, but it is not. I harvested some rosemary today. 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