{"id":1864,"date":"2011-07-15T08:52:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T12:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2011-07-15T08:52:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T12:52:58","slug":"first-garlic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"First Garlic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1865\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/garlic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1865\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1865\" title=\"Garlic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/garlic.png\" alt=\"Garlic\" width=\"540\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garlic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten my first harvest of garlic, and although the bulbs are small, I&#8217;ve learned quite a bit from the process. <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/30\/weekend-roundup-82910\/\">When I planted these cloves<\/a>, I used some dirt from the garden and covered it with a thin layer of compost. This seemed to work well enough, but after digging through the soil, I think next time I&#8217;ll use all compost as a growth medium. The garden dirt in the tire had become very dry, and felt almost like a solid brick of pottery, rather then dirt to grow food in. I guess I&#8217;m lucky any of these plants survived, never mind growing new bulbs.<\/p>\n<p>I used a can of soda from my fridge to show the size of the bulbs, which brings up the old childhood joke: What kind of beer do gardeners drink ? Root Beer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten my first harvest of garlic, and although the bulbs are small, I&#8217;ve learned quite a bit from the process. When I planted these cloves, I used some dirt from the garden and covered it with a thin layer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1864\">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":[55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}