{"id":84,"date":"2008-02-26T12:36:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T18:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-02-26T12:36:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T18:36:43","slug":"garden-primer-by-barbara-damrosch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/garden-primer-by-barbara-damrosch\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/garden-primer.JPG?ssl=1\" title=\"The Garden Primer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/garden-primer.JPG?w=1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Garden Primer\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Spring is coming. Really, it is. And despite evidence to the contrary, it&#8217;s coming soon. Now is the perfect time to get serious about planning your garden &#8211; those juicy tomatoes and glorious flowers don&#8217;t plant themselves you know!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Garden Primer<\/em> by Barbara Damrosch has long been one of my favorites &#8211; there is something about her writing style that makes you think &#8220;Sure, I can grow that. No problem.&#8221;  Encouraging and practical, she covers everything &#8211; from digging the garden bed to how to grow a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, flowers and bulbs &#8211; without being overwhelming. Topics include composting, growing native plants, dealing with critters and essential garden tools. A new, revised edition has just been released with updated plant varieties and additional topics; recommended garden practices are now 100% organic.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re landless or just don&#8217;t have the time to garden but still love to eat well, the Davenport Farmer&#8217;s Markets open for the regular season on May 3! (Until then, winter markets will be held at the Freight House on March 1 and April 5)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is coming. Really, it is. And despite evidence to the contrary, it&#8217;s coming soon. Now is the perfect time to get serious about planning your garden &#8211; those juicy tomatoes and glorious flowers don&#8217;t plant themselves you know! The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch has long been one of<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/garden-primer-by-barbara-damrosch\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[3252,99,100],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-books","tag-gardening","tag-organic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}