{"id":264,"date":"2009-05-09T21:44:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T04:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2009\/05\/09\/starting-from-scratch\/"},"modified":"2009-05-09T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T05:08:11","slug":"starting-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2009\/05\/09\/starting-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting from Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"ChardStart by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/3517627906\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" alt=\"ChardStart\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3298\/3517627906_0fc5486dae.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We planted our vegetable garden today! This is so exciting. A week or so ago we got our plot assignment from the housing manager and started to dig out the weeds. There was a lot of rain last weekend, and during the whole week, so it was kind of an on-again-off-again kind of thing until today. We got all the remaining weeds out (lots of grass) and turned all the soil. We blended in quite a lot of coffee grounds from Starbucks, leveled everything out, and planted our starts. We went to the Little Red Farm, where our friends the K&#8217;s have their wonderful nursery. We got a selection of tomatoes, basil, butternut squash, spinach, and swiss chard (see photo above.) Here&#8217;s what our patch looked like a week ago, and what it looks like now that we have our stuff planted:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Garden_Weeds by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/3517628786\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" alt=\"Garden_Weeds\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3641\/3517628786_69d796c03a_m.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Garden_Starts by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/3516815859\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" alt=\"Garden_Starts\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3189\/3516815859_029cf56c18_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are planning to plant some seeds in the area shown in the upper left &#8211; probably beets and corn. There are faucets next to each patch, but they haven&#8217;t turned the water on yet. Hopefully they will soon because our apartment is not all that close!<\/p>\n<p>The landscaping in our complex is all in bud and bloom &#8211; don&#8217;t these pink blossoms look good enough to eat? Some of them are starting to pop.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"FatPinkBuds by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/3516815513\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" alt=\"FatPinkBuds\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3397\/3516815513_386f80bd6f_m.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"FatPinkFlower by fidget kt, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/3516815619\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" alt=\"FatPinkFlower\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3611\/3516815619_49c3f3945d_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We planted our vegetable garden today! This is so exciting. A week or so ago we got our plot assignment <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}