{"id":2742,"date":"2011-05-05T20:51:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T19:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2011-05-05T20:58:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T19:58:43","slug":"today_seedlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2011\/05\/05\/today_seedlings\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: Seedlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was going to plant our overblown daffodils from the pot in the kitchen into the garden, to join the ones already growing there. When I sat down to dig the first hole I saw that I was surrounded by cherry seedlings. They were legion. I don&rsquo;t want them to root themselves properly or we will never get rid of them &ndash; run them over with a lawnmower and they will just keep coming back, until there&rsquo;s a hard, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/extirpation\/\">gnarly lump of a root<\/a> with pointy stumps sticking up &ndash; painful to step on with bare feet. So I plucked them out with their roots. I counted three hundred and sixty-eight. Or perhaps three hundred and seventy, I suspect I lost count twice. But since they were so concentrated it was quick work, a second or two for each one, so it was no more than fifteen minutes&rsquo; work. (Otherwise I&#8217;d have given up far earlier.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThen I planted the daffodils. I hope they will like their new home. This autumn I would like to plant some more crocuses there as well. We have some, but they make more of an impression in larger amounts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe primroses growing on that side of the house are puny this year: small leaves, really short stalks, and small flowers. Too dry, perhaps? Nothing like last year&rsquo;s display.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Seedlings.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">One hundred and thirty-six<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I was going to plant our overblown daffodils from the pot in the kitchen into the garden, to join the ones already growing there. When I sat down to dig the first hole I saw that I was surrounded by cherry seedlings. They were legion. I don&rsquo;t want them to root themselves properly [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","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=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}