{"id":2555,"date":"2011-04-30T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:07:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T00:07:47","slug":"garden-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2555","title":{"rendered":"Garden volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re a bit late getting started with the garden this year, and the center plot has taken matters into its own hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/5670530235\/\" title=\"Parsley bolted by emisanboo, on Flickr\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5109\/5670530235_e266d01091.jpg\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Parsley bolted\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis is last year&#8217;s parsley.  These two plants grew like a weed and bolted very quickly.  I might just let them do their thing so they&#8217;ll self-seed for next year.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/5671098778\/\" title=\"basil_seedling by emisanboo, on Flickr\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5022\/5671098778_fc9d917333.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" alt=\"basil_seedling\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe basil has also come back.  This isn&#8217;t unusual &#8211; last year we had the entire center plot full of basil, even after we thinned it out and gave away plants to our friends.  It was great.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/5670529727\/\" title=\"dill by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5186\/5670529727_db51603de3.jpg\" height=\"400\" alt=\"dill\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe dill seems to have returned as well.  We had one plant that went to seed near the end of the season, and I see at least two little dill plants coming up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what else we&#8217;ll plant in there, but we&#8217;ve got the makings of some good food already, and we haven&#8217;t really done any work.<\/p>\n<p>The other plots will have tomatoes, eggplant, maybe some peppers, and whatever else we decide to plant on a whim.  And who knows, maybe the veggies will come up again from the previous season&#8217;s seeds.  That&#8217;s what happened last year.<\/p>\n<p>Have at it, Mother Nature.  Make us a meal!<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re a bit late getting started with the garden this year, and the center plot has taken matters into its own hands. This is last year&#8217;s parsley. These two plants grew like a weed and bolted very quickly. I might just let them do their thing so they&#8217;ll self-seed for next year. The basil has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}