{"id":2356,"date":"2011-03-26T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/is-it-really-spring\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:45:28","slug":"is-it-really-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/is-it-really-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Really Spring?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are getting antsy to get going in the fields at Fair Share Farm, but the weather, and our farmer’s sense tell us, be patient. We have learned that a transplant in the greenhouse with warm roots will give us a healthier plant than one that gets set out into 40 degree soil. And while we’ve seeded some peas and spinach, it remains too cold and wet for much else.<\/p>\n

And cold and wet is the word. For the next five days the warmest temperature we can expect is 45 deg F; and 4 of the next 5 nights will see temps in the mid to high 20’s. All are well below the balmy average of 60 deg F during the day and 40 deg F at night.<\/p>\n

So we continue working in the greenhouse, and in the barn, and clearing brush, and planning, and whatever else we can do.<\/p>\n

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First day of Spring<\/p>\n

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Snow on the garlic Friday morning<\/p>\n

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Seeding the eggplant in mini-soil blocks<\/p>\n

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Stinging nettles, a Spring treat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are getting antsy to get going in the fields at Fair Share Farm, but the weather, and our farmer’s sense tell us, be patient. We have learned that a transplant in the greenhouse with warm roots will give us a healthier plant than one that gets set out into 40 degree soil. And while … Continue reading Is it Really Spring?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,210,190,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cold-weather","category-nettles","category-seeding","category-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69547,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/69547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}