{"id":1253,"date":"2008-05-20T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2008-05-20T16:46:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:46:23","slug":"what-i-did-today-aka-boy-its-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1253","title":{"rendered":"What I did today, a.k.a. boy, it&#8217;s hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to overcome my self-imposed title of &#8220;Black Thumb.&#8221;  Yes, I have had a tendency to kill plants in the past, but mainly because I forgot to water them.  Shame.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s nothing like a home-grown tomato, is there?  And now since the <a href=\"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1020\">tree got blown down<\/a> a couple of years ago, we have lots of sunlight in that corner of the yard.  So we decided to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squarefootgardening.com\/\">square foot gardening<\/a> a shot, and see if we can keep anything unscathed between the deer, armadillos, squirrels, and blue jays that frequent the neighborhood.  We have a fig tree and in 7 years of living here, have NEVER managed to beat the scavengers to the fruit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a late start, but <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.addlepated.net\/main.php?g2_itemId=8501\">here is what I planted today<\/a> in the boxes that hubby built this weekend.  In the herb pots I have mint, oregano, basil, parsley, chives.  In the boxes live several varieties of tomatoes, eggplant, leeks, watermelon, spinach, serranos, and a chili petin.<\/p>\n<p>Wish us luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to overcome my self-imposed title of &#8220;Black Thumb.&#8221; Yes, I have had a tendency to kill plants in the past, but mainly because I forgot to water them. Shame. But there&#8217;s nothing like a home-grown tomato, is there? And now since the tree got blown down a couple of years ago, we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}