{"id":7160,"date":"2022-04-18T10:09:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2022-04-18T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:17:08","slug":"the-spring-green-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-spring-green-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The spring green-up\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026is well underway at Thistle Hill!&nbsp; And Nala seems appreciative of the work we\u2019ve done to improve the pastures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Spring.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Spring-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Nala seems appreciative of the work we\u2019ve done to improve the pastures.\" class=\"wp-image-7161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Spring-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Spring-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Spring.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The over-seeding we did a year ago has really taken hold.&nbsp; Perennial rye and and cereal rye and several clovers have all thickened our sward significantly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not apparent but a big contributing factor we feel certain was the conditioning of the soil with the work of turnips, radish and cow peas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cover in the area pictured here was very thin and the soil quite sandy.&nbsp; Our hope is that continued rotational grazing and the addition of more cover crops will put this pasture on a par with our very best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026is well underway at Thistle Hill!&nbsp; And Nala seems appreciative of the work we\u2019ve done to improve the pastures. The over-seeding we did a year ago has really taken hold.&nbsp; Perennial rye and and cereal rye and several clovers have all thickened our sward significantly.&nbsp; Not apparent but a big contributing factor we feel certain was the conditioning of the soil with the work of turnips, radish and cow peas.&nbsp; The cover in the area pictured here was very thin and the soil quite sandy.&nbsp; Our hope is that continued rotational grazing and the addition of more cover crops will put this pasture on a par with our very best. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,33,170,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david","category-environment","category-grass","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}