{"id":32960,"date":"2025-06-17T18:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alo.land\/photo-as-our-garden-matures-we-re-seeing-more-shade-from-the-fastest-growing-plants-which-helps-protect-the-smaller-ones-on-hot-days-like-this\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T18:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:34:44","slug":"photo-as-our-garden-matures-we-re-seeing-more-shade-from-the-fastest-growing-plants-which-helps-protect-the-smaller-ones-on-hot-days-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alo.land\/pt\/photo-as-our-garden-matures-we-re-seeing-more-shade-from-the-fastest-growing-plants-which-helps-protect-the-smaller-ones-on-hot-days-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"As our garden matures, we&#8217;re seeing more shade from the fastest-growing plants, which helps protect the smaller ones on hot days like this."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-51.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-51.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-51-1280x1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-51-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-51-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1440px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-52.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-52.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-52-1280x1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-52-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-52-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1440px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-53.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-53.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-53-1280x1280.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-53-980x980.jpg 980w, https:\/\/alo.land\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/12\/instagram_image-53-480x480.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1440px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure><p>As our garden matures, we're seeing more shade from the fastest-growing plants, which helps protect the smaller ones on hot days like this.<\/p><p>This natural community support is exactly what we hope to cultivate - plants helping plants thrive together.<\/p><p>Still, many others could use extra help while we work on upgrading the irrigation system. Some plants don't have the luxury of time to wait.<\/p><p>This young tree is getting buckets of water and a thick layer of fresh grass clippings as mulch. Will it be enough? How many others need this kind of intervention?<\/p><p>Summer resilience is a team effort - both for plants and people. In our food forest, we're learning that sometimes the fastest way forward is to slow down and tend to what's struggling right now.<\/p><p>What strategies have worked in your garden during the tough summer months?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our garden matures, we&#8217;re seeing more shade from the fastest-growing plants, which helps protect the smaller ones on hot days like this. This natural community support is exactly what we hope to cultivate &#8211; plants helping plants thrive together. Still, many others could use extra help while we work on upgrading the irrigation system. 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