{"id":221,"date":"2012-04-02T13:21:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/?p=221"},"modified":"2012-04-20T10:48:27","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T17:48:27","slug":"peat-pots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/2012\/04\/02\/peat-pots\/","title":{"rendered":"Peat Pots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/04\/20120331-Peat-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-231\" title=\"Peat pots\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/04\/20120331-Peat-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I thought I would give these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcoastseeds.com\/productdetail\/Gardening-Supplies\/Seed-Starting-\/Peat-Pots\/\">peat pots from West Coast Seeds<\/a> a try this year, instead of peat pellets or small plastic containers. In the past I have found that my peat pellets sometimes go mouldy, so perhaps these will be a bit better. The point of using these is so that you minimize shock when transplanting by not disturbing the seedlings&#8217; roots. I plan on starting my squash seeds in these, so I&#8217;ll fill them with Sea Soil and hopefully I&#8217;ll have plenty of healthy Butternut and Baby Blue (Hubbard) squash seedlings.<\/p>\n<p>*Just a note: I will try growing a Butternut squash plant on my patio, but not the Baby Blue Hubbard as they can be very big. My Baby Blues will live in my dad&#8217;s garden, which has a lot more room and a lot more sunshine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would give these peat pots from West Coast Seeds a try this year, instead of peat pellets or small plastic containers. In the past I have found that my peat pellets sometimes go mouldy, so perhaps these will be a bit better. The point of using these is so that you minimize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[479237,174154],"tags":[479226,479238],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-garden-stuff","category-vegetables","tag-butternut","tag-hubbard","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}