{"id":2031,"date":"2015-01-01T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T10:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodvale.com\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T10:35:19","slug":"vegetables-in-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/vegetables-in-january-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetables in January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2014 has been a wonderful year, all plants producing almost double what they did in 2012.\u00a0 Planning your cropping for the year ahead is one of the best bits of January.\u00a0 Bear in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rotation of crops, which avoids build up of pests and allows different crops to use different soil nutrients.<\/li>\n<li>Space needed for each sowing, leaf crops being most space efficient.\u00a0\u00a0 If you maintain a large space big plants like courgettes and hearting cabbage are possible.<\/li>\n<li>How to grow 2 crops a year, such as courgettes then Aquadulce broad beans, or early potatoes then winter cabbage.<\/li>\n<li>Soil health, lots of organic matter to increase plant strength, drainage, water retention and natural pest control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We always run out of space in our garden, but that is much better than having empty soil.\u00a0 Writing in mid-December the garden is fairly well filled with carrots, celeriac, cauliflowers, turnips, leek, kale, winter and spring cabbage and bulb fennel.\u00a0 All these look well because of the thick layer of organic matter which help insulate the soil and keep the plants cheerful!\u00a0 Ongoing cold is making the leaves look less radiant, but the harvest from them is still good.<\/p>\n<p>What to sow this month:<\/p>\n<p>Noting outside, but if you have a propagator or soil warming cable in a greenhouse\u2014we lay a cable across the garden to our greenhouse until April\u2014then in late January early lettuce, spinach and, if really keen, tomatoes and peppers.\u00a0 Remember you will need to plant these on indoors from such an early sowing, but it is cool to have the first ripe tomatoes in your village, using an early variety such as Sungold.<\/p>\n<p>And what is a New Year\u2019s Resolution?\u00a0 Something that goes in one year and comes out the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014 has been a wonderful year, all plants producing almost double what they did in 2012.\u00a0 Planning your cropping for the year ahead is one of the best bits of January.\u00a0 Bear in mind: Rotation of crops, which avoids build up of pests and allows different crops to use different soil nutrients. Space needed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gardening","tag-fergus-dowding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.marshwoodlife.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}