{"id":3047,"date":"2011-05-10T14:31:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2011-05-17T08:38:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T12:38:30","slug":"weekend-garden-notes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3047","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Garden Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday – Enlarged the Lorelei<\/a>.\u00a0 \ufeffTurning under grass feels a little naughty, like maybe I’m vandalizing something.\u00a0 First reaction: Looks great.\u00a0 Second reaction:\u00a0Is it that\u00a0much bigger?\u00a0 Third reaction:\u00a0 I think I need to add a bit more.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Just a tad.\u00a0 that’s all.<\/p>\n

Sunday Morning – Transplanted baby peppers and eggplants.\u00a0 While my hands were in the soil, I prepared a quartet of young plants (tomato, Anaheim pepper, basil, and cilantro)\u00a0as a gift for friends who invited us to Sunday brunch.\u00a0 The\u00a0four have small monetary but big emotional value.\u00a0 I even said good-bye to them as they sat on our friends’ countertop, wishing them well in their new home.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

(It’s true.\u00a0 At their times of trauma, such as being transplanted or given away, I talk to plants.\u00a0 I don’t think they “understand” in the way one human understands another, but I do think a\u00a0soft voice directed toward the plant makes a difference.\u00a0 A little loony? Maybe.\u00a0 I still think it helps.\u00a0 Don’t start worrying ’till I send a plant a card or letter.)<\/p>\n

Sunday early evening – Performed major surgery on Smith.\u00a0 Poor Smith has been unusually plagued by a type of Pernicious Weed that needs to be excised carefully, vigorously, and by hand.\u00a0 The vines grow from an extensive underground network of white, cord-like runners that proliferate six to eight inches beneath the surface.\u00a0 If you leave even a little piece of one, the weed will reestablish itself.\u00a0 It was like harvesting a pile of tough, little ropes.\u00a0\u00a0Suspect I left some; it’s practically impossible to get them all. \u00a0I think I set it back a good ways.\u00a0 Then planted tomato and pepper plants, cucumber seeds, and along one border, seeds I hope grow into short sunflowers.\u00a0 Harvested some wild mint, too, also a pernicious weed (not as bad as the other one), but delicious in a mint julep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday – Enlarged the Lorelei.\u00a0 \ufeffTurning under grass feels a little naughty, like maybe I’m vandalizing something.\u00a0 First reaction: Looks great.\u00a0 Second reaction:\u00a0Is it that\u00a0much bigger?\u00a0 Third reaction:\u00a0 I think I need to add a bit more.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Just a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69],"tags":[409,407,406,408,405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3197,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}