{"id":16,"date":"2005-05-12T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2013-05-26T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T13:13:08","slug":"working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/working\/","title":{"rendered":"Working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we did weed&#8212;and weed and weed! We also drove to <a href=\"http:\/\/primexgardencenter.com\"target=\"_blank\">Primex<\/a> and bought salt hay. I like salt hay in my herb garden&#8212;it looks more casual. We do need to mulch as it:<br \/>\n 1. helps keep the weeds down and,<br \/>\n2. holds the moisture during our hot dry summers.<br \/>\nWe use regular mulch in the rest of the yard but I like the salt hay here.<\/p>\n<p>I  bought two flax plants. The blue flowers are so wonderful and having a garden with dye plants and other textile plants I need <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/flax\">flax<\/a>. I had some before but they died out. One year I bought some and another I planted from seed. (The bought ones were wonderful but the seed ones were wimpy.) <\/p>\n<p>Bob also bought a Spanish Jasmine and an metal obelisk for it to grow on. We plan to put it in a planter so we can take it inside in the winter. <\/p>\n<p>Jasmine reminds us of  the Hotel San Giorgio in Lenno on Lake Como in Italy. Sitting in their garden; being served white wine, prosciutto with melon; looking across the lake; smelling the jasmine growing up the walls&#8230; we&#8217;re asking a lot from this little plant and its new obelisk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we did weed&#8212;and weed and weed! We also drove to Primex and bought salt hay. I like salt hay in my herb garden&#8212;it looks more casual. We do need to mulch as it: 1. helps keep the weeds down and, 2. holds the moisture during our hot dry summers. We use regular mulch&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/working\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}