{"id":6453,"date":"2015-02-09T18:22:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T01:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/02\/09\/garden-maintenance-day\/"},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:22:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T01:22:55","slug":"garden-maintenance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/02\/09\/garden-maintenance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Maintenance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/transplant.jpg' title='Beavertail Transplant'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/transplant.jpg' alt='Beavertail Transplant' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today was a beautiful spring-like day with temperatures reaching as high as 80&deg;. It seemed like a perfect day to get some chores done.<\/p>\n<p>The first task was to spray nearly three gallons of <strong>Roundup&trade;<\/strong> on all the weeds sprouting just about everywhere on the landscape. I have a two gallon spray container wherein I mix the concentrated weed killer with water. The container is one of those that you pressurize with a built-in pump. I sprayed most of the areas where the weeds had started sprouting, refilling the spray tank once. <\/p>\n<p>The photo that Damsel took is of me putting the finishing touches on transplanting a <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/07\/beavertail-cactus-flower\/\">Beavertail Cactus (opuntia basilaris)<\/a> that had been growing in a pot in the courtyard. The paddles were rescued from a beavertail up near the north property line last year. This set of paddles had flowers last spring while in the courtyard pot and we&#8217;re hoping to have more this March through June.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the finished item in the inset to the photo above. Click on the image (courtesy Damsel) to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was a beautiful spring-like day with temperatures reaching as high as 80&deg;. It seemed like a perfect day to get some chores done. The first&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,49,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-home-garden","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}