{"id":298,"date":"2011-02-28T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T01:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2013-05-29T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T20:07:18","slug":"changing-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Changing season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/swepeas4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-362  alignright\" title=\"snowpeas\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/swepeas4.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve set aside quilting and sewing for now to concentrate on gardening.\u00a0 We&#8217;re once again\u00a0 planting a kitchen garden and to celebrate our warmer weather, we&#8217;ve been tilling, hoeing, rowing, building trellises and planting early seeds.\u00a0 The snow peas are sprouting and my mouth is already watering for their tender pods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;m excited to be planting green onions this season. I use them often in the kitchen and will enjoy picking them fresh. After learning cilantro helps repel grasshoppers in the garden, we&#8217;ll be planting plenty in an effort to keep the pest from our okra we&#8217;ll plant later. I love using it in my Mexican recipes and pots of peas and beans.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll also plant lots of dill to accompany the cucumbers we&#8217;ll plant shortly. Yes, new pickles and relishes are in the works!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As Bob has been very helpful in the garden, we are setting aside space for his watermelons. I plan to sneak in a few cantaloupes too. Naturally, as always, we&#8217;ll be planting lots of tomatoes, squash, cowpeas and bellpeppers, along with several herbs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The mason jars are clean and waiting to be filled with homegrown goodness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Though I&#8217;m well aware of the massive amount of work ahead, I&#8217;m excited. Our gardens are always beautiful and very productive. Hopefully the weather gods will cooperate with timely rains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shirl<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve set aside quilting and sewing for now to concentrate on gardening.\u00a0 We&#8217;re once again\u00a0 planting a kitchen garden and to celebrate our warmer weather, we&#8217;ve been tilling, hoeing, rowing, building trellises and planting early seeds.\u00a0 The snow peas are sprouting and my mouth is already watering for their tender pods. &nbsp; I&#8217;m excited<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=298\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}