{"id":1460,"date":"2026-08-18T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:52:04","slug":"gardening-a-yard-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"GARDENING A YARD AT A TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bdf28af72d158705c99f7432a377ae58\" style=\"color:#98bf4a\"><strong><em>Late summer\/early autumn cleanup is beginning in the garden. I like to get an early start on it while the weeds and spent foliage are still green and make great material for the compost pile. I will be assured of having lots of yummy, black loamy compost for next years plantings.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d88dc8427838670be974bd437c72a3d2\" style=\"color:#65b62f\">Looking at the task as a whole is rather intimidating to say the least!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1f0b0f5eef4b4d5748eeec2ba6ffb97a\" style=\"color:#5eab4d\">I prefer to use the &#8220;eating an elephant&#8221; approach and tackle it one yard (three feet) at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-893237f06c43615e7ba52b144e1b422b\" style=\"color:#68d100\">It is going to require some deep thought, but at the top of the list is the dehydrating of some really rambunctious basil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/BASIL-TREE-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/BASIL-TREE-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/BASIL-TREE-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/BASIL-TREE-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/08\/BASIL-TREE.jpg 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Basil &#8220;tree&#8221;!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late summer\/early autumn cleanup is beginning in the garden. I like to get an early start on it while the weeds and spent foliage are still green and make great material for the compost pile. I will be assured of having lots of yummy, black loamy compost for next years plantings. Looking at the task [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/verosgarden\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}