{"id":2201,"date":"2007-01-12T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T23:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2017-07-18T17:51:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T22:51:35","slug":"32-bags-of-mulch-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/32-bags-of-mulch-later\/","title":{"rendered":"32 Bags of Mulch Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/MulchedPaths2007a.jpg\" alt=\"garden paths\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just one more trip,&#8221; I kept telling myself. How can I turn away from a huge pile of free mulch? I can&#8217;t! I figure each lawn and leaf bag hold about the same as one bag of mulch from a big box store. So 32 x 2 x $3 = $192. If a penny saved is a penny earned, then I made $12 an hour&#8211;and didn&#8217;t have to pay taxes. Of course, if I bought mulch by the yard it would be cheaper but because I don&#8217;t have a truck, I&#8217;d have to pay a delivery charge.<\/p>\n<p>I also bagged 58 paper grocery sacks of ground pine needles that I&#8217;ll compost with the oak leaves I&#8217;m <strong>still<\/strong> raking up.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/MulchedPaths2007b.jpg\" alt=\"garden paths\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At any rate, even when we had a truck, I never had enough mulch to cover all the paths in the meadow evenly. This is a first. And it looks so nice. I&#8217;m always pleased with how the garden looks when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/archives\/001954.html\">the paths are tidied.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/MulchedPaths2007c.jpg\" alt=\"garden paths\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An ice storm is headed our way. If we&#8217;re lucky it will rain first. Bearing this in mind I kept at it. In a couple of days, I&#8217;ll be huddling indoors enjoying our week of winter and wondering how the rose bushes, which are beginning to bud, and the vegetable garden will do. I picked enough lettuce for a big salad and three cherry tomatoes today. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be able to coddle the tomato through this storm.<\/p>\n<p>If the forecast is correct, my next photo may be of the garden covered in snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need a long, hot bath and a glass of wine. Make that two glasses of wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[115,320],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5397,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}