{"id":108,"date":"2012-05-07T01:28:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T01:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/?p=108"},"modified":"2012-05-07T01:28:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T01:28:30","slug":"mosquitos-mean-time-to-plant-carrots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/mosquitos-mean-time-to-plant-carrots\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquitos Mean Time to Plant Carrots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you carefully observe what is going on in nature around your mini-farm and keep notes, eventually you will learn certain natural events coincide with optimal planting times for certain crops.<\/p>\n<p>Your observations will only be applicable to your area. Where I live, for example, I have noticed that I should plant cabbage and broccoli a week after my apple tree starts to bloom and that the appearance of the first mosquito signals the best time to plant carrots and parsnips.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I advocate is keeping a journal. Record what you notice in your journal, and this will ultimately help you fine-tune your planting for optimal performance in your area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you carefully observe what is going on in nature around your mini-farm and keep notes, eventually you will learn certain natural events coincide with optimal planting times for certain crops. Your observations will only be applicable to your area. Where I live, for example, I have noticed that I should plant cabbage and broccoli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}