{"id":698,"date":"2009-07-16T21:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=698"},"modified":"2009-07-17T12:23:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T19:23:26","slug":"a-week-in-the-garden-at-house-of-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"A Week in the Garden at &#8220;House of Blues&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_697\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_3747a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-697\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-697\" title=\"img_3747a\" src=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_3747a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mint plants await their new companions\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_3747a-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_3747a-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img_3747a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pots awaiting new mint plants* <\/p><\/div>\n<p>We sometimes refer to our Seattle house as &#8220;House of Blues,&#8221; although it is a very happy house.\u00c2\u00a0 The exterior is painted in three shades of blue, and the nickname also signifies a love we have for certain Southern music.<\/p>\n<p>My week of gardening included starting nine rosemary cuttings, planting six yellow portulacas in the window boxes for upstairs, and doing routine watering and clean-up of the front garden.<\/p>\n<p>Today I noticed the mint starts had begun to root in their glass jars.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;d originated as a small bundle of organic mint from Safeway&#8217;s produce aisle and had been placed in water on about July 8.\u00c2\u00a0 What valiant, assertive little sprigs these plants are!\u00c2\u00a0 The roots form at the ends of the cuttings, not at nodes, and even the frailest little stems seem to be rooting.\u00c2\u00a0 In the back herb-and-flower garden, four pots wait expectantly.\u00c2\u00a0 When the mint cuttings have formed sufficient roots, they will join older mint plants from the front garden, which are already at home in the pots.<\/p>\n<p>*In the foreground of the photo&#8211; strawberries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sometimes refer to our Seattle house as &#8220;House of Blues,&#8221; although it is a very happy house.\u00c2\u00a0 The exterior is painted in three shades of blue, and the nickname also signifies a love we have for certain Southern music. My week of gardening included starting nine rosemary cuttings, planting six yellow portulacas in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-2009-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nomad.yosemite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}