{"id":30,"date":"2008-04-22T21:26:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T20:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-04-22T21:29:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T20:29:01","slug":"more-new-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"More new seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I thought that this year on the allotment I would experiment with raspberries, I have branched out and have bought some quinoa and amaranth seeds (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realseeds.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Real Seeds\">www.realseeds.co.uk<\/a>).  I know that I am not going to be able to produce enough grains to provide for my family, but I thought that it would be fun to try.  From trawling through the web I have discovered that quinoa can grow in a cold climate and amaranth comes from a warm climate, but both should be treated like tomatoes in the beginning so I have brought my seed trays to live on the front window ledge for a while, well at least until they sprout.<\/p>\n<p>So tonight I planted some quinoa, amaranth, cucumber, salad leaves, rocket, runner beans and sunflowers.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally I spent a short time on the allotment this afternoon and planted some broad beans that had been growing in the shed and did a small bit of digging before my daughter woke up and we had to go home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I thought that this year on the allotment I would experiment with raspberries, I have branched out and have bought some quinoa and amaranth seeds (from www.realseeds.co.uk). I know that I am not going to be able to produce enough grains to provide for my family, but I thought that it would be fun &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/?p=30\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More new seeds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allotment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadoxhurst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}