{"id":428,"date":"2015-10-16T09:25:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2015-10-16T09:25:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:25:41","slug":"clearing-the-drainage-ditch-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the Drainage Ditch, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going. I do about three wheelbarrows full of rocks about four times a week. That&#8217;s about two feet at a stretch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0325.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0325.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nDefinite progress from last time! I&#8217;m doing chop-and-drop with the plants that have grown it over, and using them as mulch. That hillside could use a lot of mulch &#8230; heck, it could use a lot of plants, too, but right now we can&#8217;t quite swing it. I want to put some fruit trees in when we get that far. It&#8217;s a big space, but not well irrigated, so it&#8217;s going to take time, money, and effort to get it set up the way we want. It probably wouldn&#8217;t hurt to fill it in with succulents for now so that heavy rains won&#8217;t wash it down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0326.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0326.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAs you can see, there&#8217;s still a ways to go. I think we&#8217;re about a third done with it, though the first two-thirds are the most-full of rocks and the last third should be much easier to clear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_03241.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_03241.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nPile O Rock Land, home of the happy lizard people! What are we going to do with all these rocks? I don&#8217;t know yet. If they weren&#8217;t so irregular, I&#8217;d seriously consider using them to build some raised beds. As it is, I keep toying with the idea. Or somehow use them as pavers. Anyone out there in internet-land have ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going. I do about three wheelbarrows full of rocks about four times a week. That&#8217;s about two feet at a stretch. &nbsp;&nbsp; Definite progress from last time! I&#8217;m doing chop-and-drop with the plants that have grown it over, and using them as mulch. That hillside could use a lot of mulch &#8230; heck, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[237,238,236],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","tag-drainage-ditch","tag-maintenance","tag-yardwork"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_0325-0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6CUdQ-6U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}