{"id":12,"date":"2008-11-22T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localweb.rubschlager.com\/wordpress-mu\/angie\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-11-22T10:05:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T18:05:35","slug":"carrots-and-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/2008\/11\/22\/carrots-and-onions\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrots and Onions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">In the past two years I have gained something I have wanted since my married life began.\u00a0 Land.\u00a0 Not a lot of land.\u00a0 In fact it is less than a quarter acre, but enough to satisfy my deep seated need to play in the dirt and grow things.\u00a0 Shortly after we moved into our current house, with its blank slate backyard, we paid a high-end landscaper a lot of money to transform it into a grass free paradise complete with gravel paths.\u00a0 Some days I cringe at the money we spent, but most days I&#8217;m thrilled.\u00a0 My plan for this space has always been and continues to be &#8220;benign neglect.&#8221;\u00a0 It is a mixture of flowers and structural plants with food crops inter-planted.\u00a0 No plant lasts long that requires a lot of extra care.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have time for that.\u00a0 This brings us to Carrots and Onions.\u00a0 Carrots grow like gangbusters.\u00a0 See the harvests from the past couple of years.<\/p>\n\n<p>Onions, not so much!\u00a0 Sigh&#8230;\u00a0 At least they do better than Brussel Sprouts.\u00a0 Those don&#8217;t even rate a picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past two years I have gained something I have wanted since my married life began.\u00a0 Land.\u00a0 Not a lot of land.\u00a0 In fact it is less than a quarter acre, but enough to satisfy my deep seated need to play in the dirt and grow things.\u00a0 Shortly after we moved into our current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,17],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","tag-carrots","tag-onions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}