{"id":37,"date":"2009-03-20T21:03:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T02:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2015-03-26T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:40:18","slug":"touching-your-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/touching-your-tomatoes\/37\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching your tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a very interesting post today about growing tomatoes from seeds &#8211; I&#8217;m going to include a link below. The author is Margaret Roach. Among her many interesting comments, she noted: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brush the tops of the seedlings daily with your hand to provide the \u201cmechanical conditioning\u201d that creates sturdy, not spindly seedlings. Not just once, but gently for a half-minute or minute.  (Yes, go ahead, talk to them while you do it. I probably do without even realizing it.)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Talk about &#8220;hands on&#8221; gardening! But she said a lot of things that make sense. Here&#8217;s the link to the full article:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/awaytogarden.com\/tips-for-growing-better-tomatoes-from-seed#more-3151\"><\/p>\n<p>Makes me want to get started myself &#8211; it&#8217;s past time to start the seeds in flats I can bring inside. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a very interesting post today about growing tomatoes from seeds &#8211; I&#8217;m going to include a link below. The author is Margaret Roach. Among her many interesting comments, she noted: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brush the tops of the seedlings daily with your hand to provide the \u201cmechanical conditioning\u201d that creates sturdy, not spindly seedlings. Not [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[317,43],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","tag-diy","tag-eco-friendly","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperjewels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}