{"id":1926,"date":"2016-09-18T22:23:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:36:06","slug":"starting-strawberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"Starting Strawberries &#8211; Sept 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re starting the strawberries. Last year we grew the Festival berries and weren&#8217;t that happy with them. \u00a0They characteristically do not ripen all the way to the top.<\/p>\n<p>This year we decided to go with the tried and true Florida strawberry &#8220;Sweet Charlie&#8221;. The beds were gone over by the chickens first. (see the post about <a href=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=1443\" target=\"_blank\">Chicken Tractor One<\/a>). Then we spread goat manure and black weed cloth.<\/p>\n<p>We have three rows ready for strawberries in the Hilltop Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Homesteading,<\/p>\n<p>T.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1028\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/featherPen-e1484911911547.jpeg\" alt=\"Feather Pen Post\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/featherPen-e1484911911547.jpeg 125w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/featherPen-e1484911911547-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1927\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1927\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4396-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberries Sept 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4396-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4396-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4396-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preparing for Strawberries Fall 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1928\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4397-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_4397\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4397-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4397-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4397-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1929\" src=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4398-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_4398\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4398-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4398-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_4398-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re starting the strawberries. Last year we grew the Festival berries and weren&#8217;t that happy with them. \u00a0They characteristically do not ripen all the way to the top. This year we decided to go with the tried and true Florida strawberry &#8220;Sweet Charlie&#8221;. The beds were gone over by the chickens first. (see the post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/?p=1926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starting Strawberries &#8211; Sept 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[78,71],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","tag-fruit","tag-strawberries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7igqH-v4","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentpinefarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}