{"id":1145,"date":"2012-04-01T23:21:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T03:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micheleantionette.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2012-04-01T23:21:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T03:21:37","slug":"learning-to-grow-watermelons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/2012\/04\/01\/learning-to-grow-watermelons\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Grow Watermelons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is April 1st and a beautiful, sunny day. \u00a0The temperature has dropped a little bit, but it is still warm enough to do some work on the garden. \u00a0I am feeling adventurous so I have decided to start planting watermelons. \u00a0I have all day so I think I am going to get on-line for some advice before starting my new adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Advice is what I was seeking and wow did I ever get some. \u00a0The first thing I learned is that watermelons are suppose to be planted in the Fall. \u00a0At first I was disappointed but then as I read further down it mentioned that you can begin to sow watermelon seeds indoors. \u00a0I thought I would give it a try. \u00a0The directions called for using peat pots, which can be planted in the garden with minimal transplant shock.<\/p>\n<p>The other interesting thing that I learned was that you should always give a little more time then the seed packet suggests to reach harvest. \u00a0The typical number of days for maturity can range from 80-90 for baby bush varieties, and 90-100 days or more for the larger variety. \u00a0I love learning new things and I can&#8217;t wait to plant these peat pots in the garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is April 1st and a beautiful, sunny day. \u00a0The temperature has dropped a little bit, but it is still warm enough to do some work on the garden. \u00a0I am feeling adventurous so I have decided to start planting watermelons. \u00a0I have all day so I think I am going to get on-line for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/2012\/04\/01\/learning-to-grow-watermelons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning to Grow Watermelons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodrecipe","category-healthfitness","category-homehome-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/machelleantionette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}