{"id":11084,"date":"2019-03-03T22:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T21:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=11084"},"modified":"2019-03-11T22:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:36:16","slug":"daily_1527_-_mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/03\/03\/daily_1527_-_mint\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1527 &#8211; mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1527_mint.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve had all kinds of herbs growing on the window sill. Often I buy herbs for a specific meal but don&#8217;t use the entire stand, so I just put the pot with the rest on the sill. It either survives or it doesn&#8217;t. Quite often it doesn&#8217;t. The plants seem to have been forced to a suitable size but don&#8217;t have proper roots for long term survival.<br \/>\nThe above-ground parts are also often quite weak and floppy and don&#8217;t stay upright without the support of the plastic cone around it.<\/p>\n<p>Basil often does well, and tastes good, too. Mint is my new favourite: these two have survived and thrived and even look decorative. (This photo is from before we went on our week-long trip; both plants survived but definitely look quite a bit sadder now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had all kinds of herbs growing on the window sill. Often I buy herbs for a specific meal but don&#8217;t use the entire stand, so I just put the pot with the rest on the sill. It either survives or it doesn&#8217;t. Quite often it doesn&#8217;t. The plants seem to have been forced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11086,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions\/11086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}