{"id":12578,"date":"2016-07-04T20:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=12578"},"modified":"2023-06-03T19:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T02:56:13","slug":"grandpas-garden-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/grandpas-garden-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips:  Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Store your seed packets in a photo album for easy review and retrieval.<\/li>\n<li>Bake crushed egg shells at 350\u00ba for 20 minute to kill bacteria, then spread across your soil to slice the underbelly of snails.<\/li>\n<li>For those that you like, put a canning jar lid full of beer.&nbsp; They will drink themselves to death.<\/li>\n<li>Use Acrylic or Oil paints to create informal arts plant ID rocks<\/li>\n<li>Not the artsy type, use plastic forks and a Sharpie to create plant markers<\/li>\n<li>Coffee grounds in your soil helps repel pests AND fertilizes your garden.<\/li>\n<li>Soak your seeds for 24 hours to give them a germination jump start<\/li>\n<li>Put colored bottles around your garden for a bit of whimsey<\/li>\n<li>Use a shipping palate to create a vertical garden<\/li>\n<li>A rain gutter makes a garden trough along the top of your fence.&nbsp; Use spaghetti tubing for irrigation<\/li>\n<li>A gauze strip will wick water into your house plants while you are on an extended vacation<\/li>\n<li>Use a toilet paper roll as a seedling pot<\/li>\n<li>Create a water bottle sprinkler using duct tape and your garden hose<\/li>\n<li>Use cinnamon as a rooting compound to repel fungus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Store your seed packets in a photo album for easy review and retrieval. Bake crushed egg shells at 350\u00ba for 20 minute to kill bacteria, then spread across your soil to slice the underbelly of snails. For those that you like, put a canning jar lid full of beer.&nbsp; They will drink themselves to death. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/grandpas-garden-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tips:  Gardening&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks-and-tools","category-non-cooking-reference-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22909,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12578\/revisions\/22909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}