{"id":60,"date":"2008-07-10T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amosfamily.net:8181\/?p=60"},"modified":"2008-07-10T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T18:42:20","slug":"water-wise-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Water-Wise Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I receive an email full of advertisements from Wayside Gardens just about every day.\u00a0 Usually it only has plants for sale, but today it had some tips on water conservation in the garden that I thought were very insightful.\u00a0 It is mostly common sense, but I learned something new from\u00a0 it, so maybe it will be useful to others as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Water in the morning so roots have time to take  up moisture before it evaporates during the heat of the day. <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Install drip irrigation or soaker hoses to put  water right at plants&#8217; roots and prevent runoff. <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Frequently check irrigation systems, sprinkler  heads, etc for leaks.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Water deeply but infrequently, causing roots to  reach down into the soil for moisture and strengthen growth. <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Use an organic mulch to keep roots moist and  cool. <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Reuse household water as much as possible (e.g. water from rinsing and cooking pasta and vegetables, cleaning aquariums, and emptying coolers, vases, etc).<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Put up a rain gauge to help manage your water  needs.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Clean decks, patios, sidewalks, etc with a broom  instead of a hose.<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I receive an email full of advertisements from Wayside Gardens just about every day.\u00a0 Usually it only has plants for sale, but today it had some tips on water conservation in the garden that I thought were very insightful.\u00a0 It is mostly common sense, but I learned something new from\u00a0 it, so maybe it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}