{"id":82,"date":"2012-06-16T23:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T03:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/?p=82"},"modified":"2012-06-18T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T19:46:46","slug":"sowing-seeds-for-the-fifth-spring-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/2012\/06\/16\/sowing-seeds-for-the-fifth-spring-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowing Seeds for the Fifth Spring Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/seeds-and-seedlings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-83\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/seeds-and-seedlings-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/seeds-and-seedlings-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/seeds-and-seedlings.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teams of three or four students from the Class of 2017 planned, prepared, and planted sections of the raised beds for a fall harvest that fits the theme of &#8220;A Garden to Go.&#8221; The idea is to be able to return in September to pick and eat the produce right off the vine (almost)!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-85\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/Watering-new-plantings1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/Watering-new-plantings1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/Watering-new-plantings1-399x300.jpg 399w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/Watering-new-plantings1.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Students watered and labeled each planted section during the last week of school, hoping that other community members and nature itself would work to bring about tasty carrots, peppers, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, basil and watermelons that result from sowing viable seeds in good soil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/Potato-planting1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-90\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/Potato-planting1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/Potato-planting1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/files\/2012\/06\/Potato-planting1.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Upper School Garden Club participants experiment\u00a0with a soilless method of planting potatoes. Straw-filled wooden boxes stacked two high will make it easy to\u00a0see how potatoes grow beneath the\u00a0&#8220;ground&#8221;. At harvest time, the top box\u00a0will be lifted off and students will be able to find the potatoes hanging from the original seed potato and\u00a0the roots that grew. An added bonus- the tubers will not be &#8220;soiled&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>Sauteed in\u00a0olive\u00a0oil and with garden fresh herbs, these potatoes will make a\u00a0hearty and healthy\u00a0after-school snack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams of three or four students from the Class of 2017 planned, prepared, and planted sections of the raised beds for a fall harvest that fits the theme of &#8220;A Garden to Go.&#8221; The idea is to be able to return in September to pick and eat the produce right off the vine (almost)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":85,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/communitygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}