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Garden!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m feeling pretty smug right about now.\u00a0 As I drive through our area here in the mountains of western North Carolina, I see lots of my neighbors tilling up their annual garden plots.\u00a0 Yep, lots of fresh dirt out there.\u00a0 But here on The Little Half Acre?<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-802 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0374-1000x750.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0374-1000x750-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-817\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0374-1000x750-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0374-1000x750-45x45.jpg 45w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-817'>\n\t\t\t\tMustard and spinach and peas,         Oh My!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0373-1000x750.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0373-1000x750-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail lazyload\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-816\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0373-1000x750-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_0373-1000x750-45x45.jpg 45w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-816'>\n\t\t\t\tVeggies growing!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Ta-da!\u00a0 A garden!\u00a0 I no longer resent all those &#8220;put the row cover and plastic on-take the row cover and plastic off&#8221; evenings and mornings when I fought Mother Nature over frigid overnight temps.\u00a0 It was worth it!<\/p>\n<p>I did get some damage on a few of the peas and a few of the cabbage but, overall, planting early then covering the garden with row cover and\/or plastic hoop tunnels on cold nights definitely paid off.\u00a0 I was able to pull a few small kale plants to add to our salad last night.\u00a0 What a delightful way to thin the kale bed!\u00a0 I also snipped a few small spinach leaves and, today, I&#8217;ll cook our first batch of mustard greens.\u00a0 Yum!<\/p>\n<p>And, although I got a late start on &#8220;starting&#8221; the tomatoes, peppers and eggplants, I&#8217;ll soon toss those babies into my very ripe straw bales (<a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/its-tater-plantin-time\/\">see previous post<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m feeling pretty smug right about now.\u00a0 As I drive through our area here in the mountains of western North Carolina, I see lots of my&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Congratulations! 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