{"id":2048,"date":"2013-05-29T17:54:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T00:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2013-05-29T17:54:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T00:54:45","slug":"the-herb-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/the-herb-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Herb Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent four hours in the herb garden last week.\u00a0 I find that two hours a day on my hands and knees is the limit.\u00a0 I really hadn&#8217;t planned to do so much in the herb garden, but it moved along so well I just kept at it.\u00a0 I still need to clear out the lower left\u00a0 branch of the walkway, and transplant the thyme from the right to left upper arm of the garden.\u00a0 I&#8217;m late getting the annuals in.\u00a0 I have some basil and a couple of miniature tomatoes to plant.\u00a0 I need to pick up more basil, parsley, rosemary, a pickle cucumber plant and a zucchini. And, I need to decide what I can plant in the upper left bed that will grow in a half day of shade.\u00a0 I planted nasturtiums on either side of the walkway opening at the bottom of the garden.\u00a0 I can see a couple of the seedlings from the kitchen windows.\u00a0 If only half of them grow, I&#8217;ll have masses of color this summer!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Herb-Garden-Early-Morn-Resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2049\" alt=\"Herb Garden Early Morn Resized\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Herb-Garden-Early-Morn-Resized.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Herb-Garden-Early-Morn-Resized.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Herb-Garden-Early-Morn-Resized-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Herb-Garden-Early-Morn-Resized-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the top right corner I have a good stand of lemon balm.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ll plant lemon verbena and a lemon scented geranium right in front of it, for a lemon garden.\u00a0 I love saving the lemon verbena for use in potpourri. It&#8217;s too cold here to winter it over.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh oregano, anyone?\u00a0 I have loads of it to give away!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent four hours in the herb garden last week.\u00a0 I find that two hours a day on my hands and knees is the limit.\u00a0 I really hadn&#8217;t planned to do so much in the herb garden, but it moved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/the-herb-garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}