{"id":2023,"date":"2010-05-14T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2010-05-14T08:08:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T14:08:49","slug":"urban-farm-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"urban farm expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill came over last night and helped us build our <a href=\"http:\/\/earthtainer.tomatofest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earthtainers<\/a>. And by &#8216;helped us&#8217;, I mean he did almost all the work, because he brought the power tools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"bottom\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1392\/4606529328_220499b258.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We bought a bunch of materials on Wednesday night, and Willis already had the rest of it ready to go. The thing that really impressed me about the process is that there&#8217;s hardly any waste: you have to cut the bottoms off half of the 30-gallon storage containers to make the drainage portion above, but the leftover pieces are ideal plant protection from cold. I wish I&#8217;d had them last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"cutting\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1034\/4605916057_f3f35d153f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It took us only a couple hours and one beer to build three of them. The process is insanely complicated, but the end result is something that will last more than a few seasons. I&#8217;m really impressed with the design. The cages are connected to each other and bolted to the container. You fill the reservoir via a watering tube, and there&#8217;s drainage so you can&#8217;t overwater. I have a small version of this on the patio already for our herbs, but this is huge:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"finished\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1291\/4606531552_a15ced8d39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;ll be in Watertown this weekend, but I&#8217;ll be buying tomatoes and peppers as soon as we get back. It&#8217;s planting time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill came over last night and helped us build our Earthtainers. And by &#8216;helped us&#8217;, I mean he did almost all the work, because he brought the power tools. We bought a bunch of materials on Wednesday night, and Willis already had the rest of it ready to go. The thing that really impressed me &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=2023\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-wD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}