{"id":670,"date":"2016-04-03T21:55:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T04:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardentowerchronicles.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2016-04-03T21:55:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T04:55:54","slug":"harvesting-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/harvesting-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-671\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Harvesting-Seedsjpg-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"Harvesting Seedsjpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Harvesting-Seedsjpg-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Harvesting-Seedsjpg.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The crazy Vegas weather finally got some of my winter crops of napa and broccoli to bolt and flowered. \u00a0While the little yellow flowers were pretty, and the bees loved them, they finally turned into seeds. \u00a0I wanted to take advantage of the nice weather to start some new plants, so I just pulled most of them and harvested the seeds. \u00a0 So now, I have some nice seeds to work with for my fall crops, and meanwhile, planted some bush beans, eggplants and marigolds. \u00a0 \u00a0Since I did not pull everything, I took a lot of the soil from those pockets out, well as much as I can anyways, and replaced them with the Wondersoil. \u00a0Originally I had started the tower with Fox Farm&#8217;s Aquamarine mix \u00a0The mix was good in nutrients, however I had noticed that it dries up kind of quickly, especially during last year&#8217;s hot hot Vegas weather, and I had to water three times a day, and the water just ran straight through. \u00a0Especially the pockets, as they dried up first. \u00a0So, now that I am scooping some of the soil in the pockets out, I am replacing what was in there with WonderSoil. \u00a0I cannot get into the middle of the tower, but at least most of the pockets are filled up with the better moisture holding organic WonderSoil. \u00a0In the second tower, I used WonderSoil and the salad greens are producing great. \u00a0I am having organic salads almost everyday! \u00a0Wonder how long before those greens are going to bolt, as today&#8217;s temperture went up to 86 degrees in Vegas. \u00a0Last week we had temperature in the 40&#8217;s and 60 mile\/hour wind, a far cry from today. \u00a0We will see what tomorrow brings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crazy Vegas weather finally got some of my winter crops of napa and broccoli to bolt and flowered. \u00a0While the little yellow flowers were pretty, and the bees loved them, they finally turned into seeds. \u00a0I wanted to take advantage of the nice weather to start some new plants, so I just pulled most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenmamachronicles.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}