{"id":229,"date":"2010-02-13T10:54:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T15:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2010-02-13T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T15:54:53","slug":"garden-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Garden Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_228\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/1296.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"size-full wp-image-228\" title=\"Garden Planning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/1296.jpg\" alt=\"Garden Planning\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garden Planning<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I continue to dig out from the recent snowfall, I&#8217;ve been passing the time indoors by planning this years garden. While writting this, I have 20 types of tomatoes, and 7 types of peppers. I have so many types because I&#8217;m trying to build a collection of non-hybrid plants. Hybrid plants are great, but the seeds can&#8217;t be saved from year to year, so in the long run, hybrids are no good for building a collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I was given some Cheerokee Purple and Yellow Brandywine seeds, and the year before that, I started saving Red Lightning Seeds from Chinese Tomatoes. This year, I hope to save at least 15 varieties of seeds, including\u00a0 the White Tomatoes seeds that I have ordered, but have not arrived yet.<\/p>\n<p>With the folder on the left, I&#8217;m saving all of the information about each variety of plant; and\u00a0on the odd shaped piece of wood below the folder, I have a garden map, all plotted out, with 1 inch equalling 10 feet (The actual Garden is 60 Feet by 250 +\u00a0Feet.).\u00a0Planning this all out reminds me of the game Farmville on Facebook, but in real life there are no lines, and only Mother Nature&#8217;s rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I continue to dig out from the recent snowfall, I&#8217;ve been passing the time indoors by planning this years garden. While writting this, I have 20 types of tomatoes, and 7 types of peppers. I have so many types &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=229\">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":[121,122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}