{"id":2667,"date":"2017-08-25T15:07:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2017-08-25T15:07:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:07:45","slug":"lets-purge-the-spurge-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/lets-purge-the-spurge-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Purge the Spurge! Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my frequent landscaping tasks in summer is weeding at clients&#8217; properties. Many of the weeds can be hand-pulled, but on a recent occasion there was such an abundance of <a href=\"http:\/\/extension.umass.edu\/landscape\/weeds\/euphorbia-maculata\" target=\"new\">Prostrate Spurge<\/a> (<em>Euphorbia maculata<\/em>) that it was hopeless to try to pull it in a reasonable amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>\nRead about how we decided to deal with the Spurge on the <a href=\"http:\/\/schnarrsblog.com\/lets-purge-the-spurge-part-1\/\" target=\"new\">Schnarr&#8217;s Hardware Blog!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schnarrsblog.com\" target=\"new\"><br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/schnarrsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scourge_of_spurge.jpg?resize=400%2C206\" alt=\"Controlling Prostrate Spurge\" style=\"height:206px;width:400px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n                        <em>At the left is a spurge-infested patch, and on the right is how it looks after the soil is turned over with a spade. Since we are not going to plant anything here, we don&#8217;t need to take the time to break up the clay chunks &#8211; nature will do the job over time.<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my frequent landscaping tasks in summer is weeding at clients&#8217; properties. Many of the weeds can be hand-pulled, but on a recent occasion there was such an abundance of Prostrate Spurge (Euphorbia maculata) that it was hopeless to try to pull it in a reasonable amount of time. Read about how we decided &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/lets-purge-the-spurge-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s Purge the Spurge! Part 1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1425,1423,544,214,318,1424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2670,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chasenfratz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}