{"id":4333,"date":"2013-02-15T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2016-09-27T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T14:42:33","slug":"february-garden-a-day-in-the-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4333","title":{"rendered":"February Garden: A Day in the Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8509\/8451087240_c1c23fb0e9_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0015\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8073\/8449999117_26b953d37a_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0014\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Winter around here has been strange weather-wise. We have had our share of snow and freezing cold days, but then we get a break from cold and the warm sun thaws everything out, if only for a day or two. On these days, the boys and I spend every minute of daylight outdoors. Every ounce of bad mood is erased within minutes (and I mean for me as much as for them!).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8375\/8451088078_a05da37093_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0027\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We spent one such day out in our muddy garden, digging for worms and more productive work for me- I took down the shabby makeshift fence surrounding our vegetable garden with dreams to expand in the spring, then edged out a space in our yard to double the size of last year&#8217;s garden and build a proper fence. Removing the grass will be the next big job, especially if we plan to do that all by hand rather than buying or renting a tiller. Little by little, it will get done!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8094\/8449998765_b1f2e6abbb_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0007\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8084\/8449999711_92e03cceb5_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0019\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8328\/8450000467_29f5c3e6a8_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0031\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8327\/8451088710_cb2d51b24d_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0039\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Don&#8217;t let the grumpy face fool you- he was having a blast, but I caught him mid-story, feeling empathetic toward a poor earthworm he had accidentally sliced in half when trying to dig&#8230; poor little guy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dreams about spring are what I have right now&#8230; our new CSA farm share starting up, the opening of the spring farmer&#8217;s market, early planting of greens in our veggie garden, fence-building and composting, long walks and daffodils, snowdrops, and tulips blooming (if the neighborhood cats didn&#8217;t kill all of our bulbs with their nasty pee). It is around this time of the year that I often struggle. The end of February and beginning of March seem to signal I&#8217;ve had all I can take of winter. Let&#8217;s hope spring is right around the corner!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have a happy weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter around here has been strange weather-wise. We have had our share of snow and freezing cold days, but then we get a break from cold and the warm sun thaws everything out, if only for a day or two. On these days, the boys and I spend every minute of daylight outdoors. Every ounce &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4333\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;February Garden: A Day in the Mud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,99],"tags":[115,173],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-green-living","tag-garden","tag-green-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12267,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions\/12267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}