{"id":16559,"date":"2016-01-16T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16559"},"modified":"2016-01-16T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:44:58","slug":"what-i-learned-from-my-2015-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16559","title":{"rendered":"What I learned from my 2015 garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livinglowinthelou.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/01\/what-i-learned-from-my-2015-garden.html\" target=\"_blank\">What I learned from my 2015 garden<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\">Once again in 2015 I put on my garden scientist hat and went into the garden to plant, observe, ponder, harvest, weed, curse, and wonder. Like any year, it had its highlights, its low spots, and its head-scratchers. Here I\u2019ll let you all in on the fun (it was fun, sometimes, when it wasn\u2019t exasperating) while trying to keep it fun for you to read. Am I up to it? If you read on, you\u2019ll soon find out.<\/p>\n<p><b>2015: the summary<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For the past three years I have been conducting a scientific experiment in my vegetable garden to determine how the garden responds to soil mineral balancing as described in Steve Solomon\u2019s book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsociety.com\/Books\/I\/The-Intelligent-Gardener\"><i>The Intelligent Gardener<\/i><\/a>. I based the amount of the mixed amendments that I used in 2015 on the discussion I had with a gardening mentor, as I mentioned in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/livinglowinthelou.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/a-tale-of-two-gardening-methods.html\">this post,<\/a>\u00a0and followed the planting instructions for potatoes that are also discussed in that post. In addition, in 2015 I increased the amount of space I allowed for some crops to match more closely to the semi-intensive spacings in Solomon\u2019s book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsociety.com\/Books\/G\/Gardening-When-It-Counts\"><i>Gardening When it Counts<\/i><\/a>, and I trialed some new crop varieties and planting procedures. But I didn\u2019t do one thing that my gardening mentor had also suggested. Because I hadn\u2019t purchased enough cottonseed meal in early spring to use for side-dressing, I was unable to side-dress the long-season, high-demand crops as he had suggested.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, here\u2019s a summary of garden performance in 2015<\/p>\n<p>1. In general, crop yields remained the same or increased compared to the past two years. For a few crops yields increased by large factors. A few crop yields decreased compared to previous years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I learned from my 2015 garden Once again in 2015 I put on my garden scientist hat and went into the garden to plant, observe, ponder, harvest, weed, curse, and wonder. Like any year, it had its highlights, its low spots, and its head-scratchers. Here I\u2019ll let you all in on the fun (it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[319,346,10335],"class_list":["post-16559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food","tag-gardening","tag-living-low-in-the-lou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16560,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions\/16560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}