{"id":913,"date":"2009-04-09T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=913"},"modified":"2009-04-09T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T15:02:15","slug":"so-it-begins-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/913","title":{"rendered":"So it begins: the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started seeds in the technogarden on March 3rd,   that being 60 days before our projected last freeze.<br \/>\n  on Flickr&#8221;><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3302\/3426599996_e3a45e2d73.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Technogarden\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now,   less than a month before Planting Day, they&#8217;re HUGE, and some plants are dwarfing others. I spent some time last night potting some of the plugs, to give more room all around.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sundaykofax\/3425790849\/\" title=\"Technogarden, redux by sundaykofax, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3414\/3425790849_8c69c1a676.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Technogarden, redux\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was surprising how much of a root system they had developed &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping they&#8217;ll transfer well to dirt. Here&#8217;s one of the three cabbage plants:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sundaykofax\/3426600204\/\" title=\"Hydroponic cabbage by sundaykofax, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3583\/3426600204_6a8df8e728.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Hydroponic cabbage\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to get to use my silver Sharpie:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sundaykofax\/3425793127\/\" title=\"Hungarian &lt;3 by sundaykofax, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3369\/3425793127_4cf96c409e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Hungarian &lt;3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, if the technogarden held the only seeds I had planted, I would have enough plants to fill my whole garden (it&#8217;s 16&#8217;x11&#8242;) &#8211; but oh no. No. My plans are for plant domination:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sundaykofax\/3425790691\/\" title=\"Seedlings, not egglings by sundaykofax, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3623\/3425790691_114853fd3f.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Seedlings, not egglings\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything&#8217;s so healthy, I&#8217;m going to give away some of the peppers (I planted 6 each of 5 varieties &#8211; what was I thinking?), and others that sprouted so well. The only disappointment so far has been the lavender &#8211; it just never sprouted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started seeds in the technogarden on March 3rd, that being 60 days before our projected last freeze. on Flickr&#8221;> Now, less than a month before Planting Day, they&#8217;re HUGE, and some plants are dwarfing others. I spent some time last night potting some of the plugs, to give more room all around. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,74,145,146,147,149],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine","tag-aerogarden","tag-garden","tag-plants","tag-seed","tag-seedlings","tag-technogarden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}