{"id":9697,"date":"2022-09-25T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9697"},"modified":"2022-09-25T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T18:13:47","slug":"madera-wildflower-meadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/25\/madera-wildflower-meadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera Wildflower Meadow"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about and working on making a wildflower Meadow at Abigail School for about 11 months now. I tried starting too late last year so I just had wait for the weather. Here we are! I put down clear UV resistant plastic with the help of a friend for a month to solarize the soil. In a few weeks I will take up the plastic and throw down seed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a simple project but has taken some will to get it done.
\n– Approval from school (which meant I had to write up a detailed plan)
\n– I initially laid down the wrong plastic, with help from Eduardo. The photo on the Farmtek website showed clear plastic but the description was a little vague and I couldn\u2019t find any other plastic sheeting on the site (my bad?) so I bought white plastic which turned out to be the perfect amount of light for growing grass. IE. the opposite of what I wanted.
\n– laid down the second sheet of plastic with help from Duncan!
\n– had a weird interaction with the Dad\u2019s Club \/ Handy Helpers who argued that I shouldn\u2019t ask for volunteers for my project on the main list because 4 events\/year was the limit for the organization. :-(
\n– Lots of waiting for the rainy season
\n– I’ve got lots of California native seed from Larner Seeds<\/a> ready to go!<\/p>\n

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Duncan and I getting the plastic down on a foggy evening<\/p><\/div>\n

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I’ve been thinking about and working on making a wildflower Meadow at Abigail School for about 11 months now. I tried starting too late last year so I just had wait for the weather. Here we are! I put down clear UV resistant plastic with the help of a friend for a month to solarize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9697"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9706,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9697\/revisions\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}