{"id":87,"date":"2011-02-27T23:18:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T23:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messyblessings.com\/garden\/?p=87"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:19:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T15:19:45","slug":"garden-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/2011\/02\/27\/garden-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.messyblessings.com\/garden\/2011\/02\/27\/our-garden-site-plan\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Garden-2010-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-141 alignleft\" title=\"Garden-2010-1\" src=\"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Garden-2010-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.messyblessings.com\/garden\/2011\/02\/27\/our-garden-site-plan\/\">Our garden site plan<\/a> includes several projects that we&#8217;ll be working on in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Build 2 2&#8242; x 6&#8242; planter beds<\/li>\n<li>Paint planter beds with clear coat<\/li>\n<li>Paint picket fence&#8230;white! \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Plant<\/li>\n<li>Construct planter bed shade covers<\/li>\n<li>Install chalkboards<\/li>\n<li>Build arbor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pa Charlie (my dad) suggested planter beds as an easy way to get started, so Mike will build two of them for our garden. We will paint the planter beds with a clear coat to seal them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always dreamed of a home with a white picket fence, but that&#8217;s not an option for us at this point. For now, Mike suggested we paint the garden&#8217;s picket fence white. \ud83d\ude42 Mike also plans on building an arbor for outside our garden gate. We&#8217;re going to paint the arbor to match the picket fence and plant vines to twine through the trellises.<\/p>\n<p>Our garden location gets full, Texas sun, and we are a little concerned about that. Mike devised a plan to construct shade covers for the planter beds using garden fabric that will block out about 30% of the sun&#8217;s light transmission.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll begin planting once we&#8217;re past the average last frost for our area, which is around mid-March. If the weather appears to be in a warming trend, we&#8217;ll plant as soon as the planter beds are finished.<\/p>\n<p>I want to mount two chalkboards to the back fence for the kids to use. The purpose is two-fold: fun and learning. I also want to place a kid-sized table and two chairs near the chalkboard for play, work, and kids&#8217; projects.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"width: 1px;height: 1px;overflow: hidden\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu\/ornamentals\/nativeshrubs\/gelsemiumsemper.htm\">Carolina Jessamine<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our garden site plan includes several projects that we&#8217;ll be working on in the coming weeks. Build 2 2&#8242; x 6&#8242; planter beds Paint planter beds with clear coat Paint picket fence&#8230;white! \ud83d\ude42 Plant Construct planter bed shade covers Install chalkboards Build arbor Pa Charlie (my dad) suggested planter beds as an easy way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,25,34,43,49,56,58,61],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-arbor","tag-chalkboard","tag-fence","tag-kids","tag-pa-charlie","tag-planter-bed","tag-projects-2","tag-shade-cover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/messyblessings.com\/garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}