{"id":282,"date":"2012-04-10T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/?p=282"},"modified":"2012-04-10T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T19:49:14","slug":"general-update-seedlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/2012\/04\/10\/general-update-seedlings\/","title":{"rendered":"General update &#8211; Seedlings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went away for the Easter weekend, during which we had sunshine and warm temperatures. The weather, and likely just the few extra days, have led to seedlings in the garden!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/04\/Bokchoy-20120410-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-283\" title=\"Baby Bok Choy seedlings\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/04\/Bokchoy-20120410-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"First day of Spring 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/2012\/03\/20\/first-day-of-spring-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toy choy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/04\/Buckwheat-20120410.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-284\" title=\"Buckwheat\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/04\/Buckwheat-20120410-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"First day of Spring 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/2012\/03\/20\/first-day-of-spring-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buckwheat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/04\/Oregon-Pea-20120410.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-285\" title=\"Oregon Sugar Pod\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/04\/Oregon-Pea-20120410-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Container peas\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/2012\/03\/25\/container-peas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oregon Sugar Pod<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/04\/20120410-Aerogarden.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-293\" title=\"Aerogarden\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/files\/2012\/04\/20120410-Aerogarden-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Last night I also pulled out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerogarden.com\/canadian-website\" target=\"_blank\">Aerogarden<\/a> to start seedlings that will go outside in May. The Aerogarden is a counter-top hydroponic system for growing tomatoes, herbs, salad greens and flowers. I&#8217;ve tried the tomatoes and herbs, but I find it is better used as a seed starter rather than growing the seed pods they offer. It takes a fair bit of electricity to run this because it has a water pump (24\/7) and lighting (17 hrs\/day).<\/p>\n<p>I have started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcoastseeds.com\/productdetail\/vegetable-seeds\/Swiss-Chard\/Bright-Lights\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Bright Lights&#8217; Swiss Chard<\/a> (3 pots x 4 seeds) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcoastseeds.com\/productdetail\/vegetable-seeds\/Squash\/Early-Butternut\/\" target=\"_blank\">Early Butternut Squash<\/a> (2 pots x 2 seeds). I&#8217;ll also start my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westcoastseeds.com\/productdetail\/vegetable-seeds\/Squash\/Baby-Blue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baby Blue Hubbard Squash<\/a> that will go in my Dad&#8217;s garden too, but have to pick up the seeds first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went away for the Easter weekend, during which we had sunshine and warm temperatures. The weather, and likely just the few extra days, have led to seedlings in the garden! &nbsp; Toy choy &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Buckwheat &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Oregon Sugar Pod &nbsp; &nbsp; Last night I also pulled out my Aerogarden to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[479237,479232,174152,174154],"tags":[479247,479245,479226,479227,479231,174156,141799,479225],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-stuff","category-general-update","category-spring","category-vegetables","tag-aerogarden","tag-baby-blue","tag-butternut","tag-covercrop","tag-oregon-sugar-pod","tag-peas","tag-swiss-chard","tag-toy-choy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}