{"id":2278,"date":"2007-08-11T08:14:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T21:46:34","slug":"reclaiming-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-house-project\/reclaiming-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the garden house project at a standstill this week, I decided to clean up the meadow garden which, thanks to Austin&#8217;s unusually heavy rains this year, is mostly weeds and rotted bearded iris. Even the paths are overgrown and covered in cement dust and other construction detritus.<\/p>\n<p>The area around the garden house is the most dispiriting.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/BogGarden2.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens: Bog Garden\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is where I laid down most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/archives\/002201.html\">Christmas tree mulch<\/a> last January. And where I plan to put all my tropical plants. During excavation for the garden house foundation, mounds of caliche were piled up there and, with workmen walking over it constantly, has been packed down anywhere from six inches to a foot deep.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/caliche5.jpg\" alt=\"caliche\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/archives\/002248.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Caliche<\/a>, as I&#8217;ve said, is almost as impervious as concrete. The rain runs right off it, exacerbating our drainage problems. (Since my return from England, our garage has flooded in every heavy rain.) Luckily it come up in big chunks.<\/p>\n<p>As you might suspect, caliche is a poor planting medium. All of it will have to be removed before I can plant the terraced bog garden.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/caliche6.jpg\" alt=\"caliche\" \/><br \/><i>My day&#8217;s work.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>If you are planning any project which requires excavation, be certain to specify who is responsible for hauling away the dirt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/BogGarden1.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens: Bog Garden\" \/><br \/><i>2007-08-09. Before the bog garden can be planted, the caliche must be removed.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278"}],"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=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}