{"id":31,"date":"2007-01-18T21:56:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T07:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-01-18T21:56:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T07:56:56","slug":"major-yacon-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2007\/01\/major-yacon-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Yacon Planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There isn&#8217;t much happening with our tea right now.  The baby tea plants haven&#8217;t grown a bit in the past 2 months, they seem to be on strike for &#8220;winter&#8221;.  So, i&#8217;m spending more time on yacon, which seems to happily grow at any time.  Here&#8217;s the young yacon plants (big light-green leaves) in the greenhouse next to young coffee and tea:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/07-1\/DSC00640-2.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"173\" height=\"130\" border=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/07-1\/DSC00640-2_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plan was to put them along the (northern) outside edge of the lower garden.  There is no danger of the chickens eating them (i already confirmed that chickens don&#8217;t like yacon leaves) but there is a danger the chickens will dig up all the loose dirt around the plants.  So, i came up with the idea to stitch (actually, staple) a whole bunch of the used 3-ply paper chicken feed sacks together to make a ground cover, then plant the yacon through holes in the ground cover:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/07-1\/DSC00642-2.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"97\" height=\"130\" border=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/07-1\/DSC00642-2_small.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/07-1\/DSC00646-2.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"173\" height=\"130\" border=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/07-1\/DSC00646-2_small.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/07-1\/DSC00648-2.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"139\" height=\"130\" border=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/blog\/07-1\/DSC00648-2_small.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It worked great!  So, that&#8217;s 10 new yacon in the ground, very exciting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There isn&#8217;t much happening with our tea right now. The baby tea plants haven&#8217;t grown a bit in the past 2 months, they seem to be on strike for &#8220;winter&#8221;. So, i&#8217;m spending more time on yacon, which seems to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2007\/01\/major-yacon-planting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crops","category-food","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}