{"id":396480,"date":"2010-03-06T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70807"},"modified":"2010-03-06T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T14:45:06","slug":"come-saturday-morning-the-year-of-the-tomato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/396480","title":{"rendered":"Come Saturday Morning: The Year of the Tomato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/06\/come-saturday-morning-the-year-of-the-tomato\/tomato-sprouts\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70809\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/tomato-sprouts.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tomato-sprouts\" width=\"275\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70809\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s the first week of March up here at the forty-fifth parallel, and I&#8217;m starting some tomato plants from seed.  I&#8217;ve got them in one of those plastic vented carriers for roast chicken; the lid&#8217;s been popped to show you the seedlings, but it went right back on again after this photo was taken.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, I&#8217;ll transfer the survivors into bigger containers in about a month or so, by which time the weather might have warmed enough to allow them to go outside.   I intend to be up to my eyeballs in tomatoes round about August.   I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p>So what unbearably exciting things have you been up to this week?<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70807&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_70807\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first week of March up here at the forty-fifth parallel, and I&#8217;m starting some tomato plants from seed. I&#8217;ve got them in one of those plastic vented carriers for roast chicken; the lid&#8217;s been popped to show you the seedlings, but it went right back on again after this photo was taken. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4940,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}