{"id":4,"date":"2005-05-03T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T19:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2020-02-12T19:29:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T00:29:48","slug":"4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/4\/","title":{"rendered":"spring 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My back garden is to be the main subject of this journal. It is mostly a sample dye plant garden with a few herbs, some lettuce and tomatoes, a small deck area for our two <a href=\" http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/blue-chairs\">blue chairs<\/a> and a bird bath. The deck area is about 8&#8242; X 8&#8242; and can be moved each year to rotate our \u201ccrops\u201d. I figured if we came home from work tired at the end of a long day, took a drink into the garden with our chairs and saw weeds we might pull some. It works\u2014sort of!<\/p>\n<p>This spring I have moved the <a href=\" http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/bed-straw\/\">Bedstraw<\/a> to the other side of my bird bath to give my <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/madder\">Madder<\/a> plants more space. Both plants give a red dye.  According to my books Madder likes compost, manure, lime and potash. It likes to be 18-20 inches apart well weeded and mulched.<\/p>\n<p>I also weeded around my <a href=\" http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wild-ginger\/\">Wild Ginger<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/bloodroot\">Bloodroot<\/a>. The Bloodroot was just flowering and the flowers were opening as the day went along.  I kept stopping to sketch and photograph them\u2014one of the images appears at the top of this site. (I bought the Bloodroot and Madder several years ago from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellsweep.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Well Sweep Herb Farm<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My back garden is to be the main subject of this journal. It is mostly a sample dye plant garden with a few herbs, some lettuce and tomatoes, a small deck area for our two blue chairs and a bird bath. The deck area is about 8&#8242; X 8&#8242; and can be moved each year&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/4\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,2],"tags":[38,60,61,62,63],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyeing","category-garden-chat","tag-gardens","tag-bedstraw","tag-madder","tag-wild-ginger","tag-bloodroot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4992,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/4992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}