{"id":13724,"date":"2020-10-25T21:32:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T20:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13724"},"modified":"2020-10-27T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T20:40:07","slug":"daily_2111_-_pots_full_of_roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/10\/25\/daily_2111_-_pots_full_of_roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2111 &#8211; pots full of roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2111_roots_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nAfter a frosty night, most of the summer flowers on the deck have died. A few hardy ones are still green and even flowering, especially the snapdragon, but most look bedraggled and sad.<\/p>\n<p>Today I threw them out, not only to remove the dead brown plants from my view, but also to clear the deck. One autumn I left a flowerpot out for too long in late autumn and it left a pot-shaped patch of rot in the deck boards. You&#8217;d think that it would all be equally wet anyway, but apparently not. Or maybe it is all equally wet but the bottom of the pot made for a good, protected growing ground for microorganisms. Now I&#8217;m careful to move the pots occasionally in wet weather, and to remove them completely when the season is definitely over.<\/p>\n<p>The thick tangle of roots filling most of the pots is pleasing to the eye, because it means they&#8217;ve grown well. Most pots looked like this. But there were a few where I could pull out a plant with no effort, leaving much of the soil still in the pot &#8211; their roots had barely grown since I planted them. It didn&#8217;t really come as a surprise, because the lack of growth in some of the plants was very obvious above ground as well.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2111_roots_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a frosty night, most of the summer flowers on the deck have died. A few hardy ones are still green and even flowering, especially the snapdragon, but most look bedraggled and sad. Today I threw them out, not only to remove the dead brown plants from my view, but also to clear the deck. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724","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=13724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13726,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13724\/revisions\/13726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}