{"id":331,"date":"2003-04-07T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T15:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=331"},"modified":"2003-04-07T10:59:54","modified_gmt":"2003-04-07T15:59:54","slug":"this-and-that-i-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/04\/this-and-that-i-1\/","title":{"rendered":"this and that, including today&#8217;s Garden Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend went by too quickly, as usual.  A grey, rainy day today, with rain and a little hail.  So no gardening today.  I was a seriously sleepy Mommy this morning &#8212; the bed was so nice and warm, and my brain was so set on finishing its REM sleep&#8230;.<br \/>\nApologies to all, by the way, for the severe lack of content in my recent blogs.  It seems like it&#8217;s been garden, garden, garden, quiz, cute baby story (cute to me, anyway), garden, quiz, garden, garden.  (My husband is also asking &#8220;aren&#8217;t you done with that thing <i>yet<\/i>?&#8221; although he was asking that after the first weekend&#8217;s work&#8230;)  I&#8217;m psyched about the garden because this is the first time I&#8217;ve really planned one out instead of just sticking things in the ground.  Anyway, I&#8217;m not done with &#8220;that thing&#8221; yet, but I should be done soon.  We finished installing the mow strip this weekend.  I also am about halfway through double-digging the northwest bed (future home of tomatoes and &#8212; I hope &#8212; eggplant.)  I&#8217;ll have one more bed to dig and then the heavy work will be over &#8212; hooray!<br \/>\nOn Saturday the nursery got some rhubarb in.  I ended up planting four roots in what is now a dedicated rhubarb bed.  How I hope they take!  I also put in some garlic, with more to go in once I get the third bed finished.<br \/>\nLast week, I also tried starting some seeds indoors.  So far some of the marigolds have started to sprout.  No movement from the eggplant seeds, though.  As for the outside beds, I see the first little sprouts of mesclun peeking above the soil.<br \/>\nKeeping Hambet out of the garden has been a real challenge.  I&#8217;ve tried telling him all about the baby seeds (say that in your best little kid voice: baaaaaaaaaaaby seeeds!!!)  and how we let the baby seeds sleep in the ground.  I thought that was working, but last night, when I showed the indoor seedlings to my husband, Hambet got so excited about the baaaaaaaaaby flowers that he snatched one right out of the dirt to show Daddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend went by too quickly, as usual. A grey, rainy day today, with rain and a little hail. So no gardening today. I was a seriously sleepy Mommy this morning &#8212; the bed was so nice and warm, and my brain was so set on finishing its REM sleep&#8230;. Apologies to all, by the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/04\/this-and-that-i-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">this and that, including today&#8217;s Garden Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}