{"id":5443,"date":"2014-10-05T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2014-10-05T21:02:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:02:01","slug":"planting_successes_and_failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/10\/05\/planting_successes_and_failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting: successes and failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Planting_success.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/slope_planted\/\">The planting I worked on<\/a> this summer turned out a great success, better than I had hoped. All the plants rooted themselves well and grew lush and big; several of them bloomed. The one exception was the Epimedium which look as small and weak as they did when I planted them. (That&#8217;s why the edge nearest the stairs looks so bare.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/tomato_jungle_tangle\/\">The tomatoes<\/a> I&#8217;ve already written about; despite the unpruned tangle they grew into, they&#8217;ve borne masses of lovely sweet, juicy fruit.<\/p>\n<p>The broccoli on the other hand have been a total and utter failure. Apparently broccoli needs more than just soil, sun and water. This is the result:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Planting_failure.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The planting I worked on this summer turned out a great success, better than I had hoped. All the plants rooted themselves well and grew lush and big; several of them bloomed. The one exception was the Epimedium which look as small and weak as they did when I planted them. (That&#8217;s why the edge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house_and_garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","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=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5446,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions\/5446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}