{"id":13547,"date":"2025-05-15T01:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T01:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=13547"},"modified":"2025-05-15T01:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T01:27:49","slug":"8-years-in-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=13547","title":{"rendered":"8 Years in the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the stick we put in the ground 8 years ago are starting to look like real trees. They have barely yielded any fruit so far, and so we hope that they&#8217;ll decide to produce a real crop one day. It&#8217;s been interesting to compare how well everything we bought from various nurseries performed. The best nursery by far has unfortunately closed. Another one I won&#8217;t name has given us only bad performers I&#8217;m tempted to just pull out of the ground after years of tending to. Worst failure rate, worst growth rate, worst everything, bleh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>plum<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9462.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9462.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6566\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9462.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/img_9462\/\" class=\"wp-image-6566\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2873-3-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2873-3-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"13548\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2873-3-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?attachment_id=13548\" class=\"wp-image-13548\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>pear<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9459.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9459.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"6554\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_9459.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/img_9459\/\" class=\"wp-image-6554\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2906-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2906-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"13549\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2906-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?attachment_id=13549\" class=\"wp-image-13549\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the stick we put in the ground 8 years ago are starting to look like real trees. They have barely yielded any fruit so far, and so we hope that they&#8217;ll decide to produce a real crop one day. It&#8217;s been interesting to compare how well everything we bought from various nurseries performed. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=13547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;8 Years in the Ground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-self-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}