{"id":220,"date":"2009-12-10T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T22:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2009-12-16T18:38:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T01:38:24","slug":"sixteen-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 10 &#8211; <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-221\" title=\"16degrees10dec09-3\" src=\"http:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/16degrees10dec09-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"16degrees10dec09-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/16degrees10dec09-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/16degrees10dec09-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/16degrees10dec09-3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Temperatures this morning fell to 16 degrees F.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the coldest its been all year at least as far as I can remember.\u00a0 It has gotten progressively colder over the past few days, each morning getting colder than the previous by a few degrees.\u00a0 The barn is completely frozen up and I&#8217;ve been hauling buckets of warm water from the house twice a day for the sheep and horses, exhausting!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vegetable garden looks so sad.\u00a0 The Swiss Chard has wilted away as well as the young red leaf lettuce plants that were just coming up from the fall planting.\u00a0 Even the fall kale has colapsed.\u00a0 The leeks look bad and have wilted down too.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t looks like anything\u00a0can withstand such extreme cold.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the green house I have a few seedlings, still in trays.\u00a0 The lettuce starts have died but the arugula, endive, kale and turnips still look ok.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been running a milkhouse heater at night to try to minimize the damage.\u00a0 Its not keeping it above freezing but it is raising the temperature about 15 to 20 degrees.\u00a0 The days have been beautiful and sunny raising the green house temperature into\u00a0the low\u00a070&#8217;s.\u00a0 My potted herbs still look good.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been able to harvest Italian parsley, rosemary\u00a0and cilantro\u00a0but the fushias are dying back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 10 &#8211; Temperatures this morning fell to 16 degrees F.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the coldest its been all year at least as far as I can remember.\u00a0 It has gotten progressively colder over the past few days, each morning getting colder than the previous by a few degrees.\u00a0 The barn is completely frozen up and I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garden.mygreatvet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}