{"id":4324,"date":"2017-04-01T12:17:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2017-04-01T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T19:20:13","slug":"4324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/4324","title":{"rendered":"SpargelFest and the fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The asparagus is coming in well now, and so tonight we&#8217;re having a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/germanfoods.org\/german-food-facts\/spargelzeit-asparagus-season-in-germany\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpargelFest<\/a> (something I didn&#8217;t even know was a thing until today; thanks, E). When I saw t<a href=\"https:\/\/food52.com\/recipes\/3202-asparagus-green-garlic-soup-w-parmesan-croutons\" target=\"_blank\">his recipe<\/a> for asparagus and green garlic soup, I thought it was time to experiment with green garlic, which is really just baby spring garlic. Here&#8217;s what I pulled up. They smell so good!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_3627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_3627-1024x647.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_3627-1024x647.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_3627-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_3627-768x486.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And our fence is up! Yay! Attractiveness was a big consideration, since this is right in front of our living room mountain view, and I think it came out nice. (This picture only shows about half the length of the long side &#8212; it&#8217;s a big area.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_3629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_3629-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_3629-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_3629-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DSC_3629-768x514.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, my tomato seeds didn&#8217;t germinate, so I bought starts. It feels a bit like cheating but I have to say that the starts look healthier than mine from seed ever do. I prepared the bed for them today, though I probably won&#8217;t put them out for a couple weeks. I read that marigolds are a good companion plant and can help fight off tomato works and gnarly root nematodes, so I put some seeds in for those. With the fence, I&#8217;m feeling confident that the rabbits won&#8217;t eat them this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The asparagus is coming in well now, and so tonight we&#8217;re having a\u00a0SpargelFest (something I didn&#8217;t even know was a thing until today; thanks, E). When I saw this recipe for asparagus and green garlic soup, I thought it was time to experiment with green garlic, which is really just baby spring garlic. Here&#8217;s what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,179,73,131,135,128],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asparagus","tag-fencing","tag-garden","tag-garlic","tag-growing","tag-tomatoes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}