{"id":4957,"date":"2019-06-04T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T00:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2019-06-03T18:51:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T10:51:28","slug":"eat-my-garden-1-blogjune-2019-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/eat-my-garden-1-blogjune-2019-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat my garden 1. Almonds and nasturtiums. Blogjune 2019\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1036-1-e1559544052727-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4959\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The almond tree was planted about 18 years ago for the kids to climb. The blossom is beautiful in the spring, lasting about a fortnight from first bud to over.  It fruits plentifully, but I have never eaten any nuts from it. Each year the parrots descend in one afternoon when the nuts are way too early for picking, and eat the lot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nasturtiums bloom everywhere over winter. The entire floor of the garden is covered with them. I shared an old house in Subiaco where this happened, so when I moved here I started with one small packet of seeds. Recently I have planted the 30-metre-long driveway with any nasturtium seedlings that grew in the wrong spot. One side of the drive has taken beautifully and leaves are nowbeginning to spill out to the street. I use the flowers as a contrast to the chocolate glaze on a chocolate cake when serving. The leaves can be used in salads, but I am not overly-fond of the peppery taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bobtail lizard lives in the bathtub underneath the almond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The almond tree was planted about 18 years ago for the kids to climb. The blossom is beautiful in the spring, lasting about a fortnight from first bud to over. It fruits plentifully, but I have never eaten any nuts from it. Each year the parrots descend in one afternoon when the nuts are way&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Eat my garden 1 Blogjune 2019\/4 #blogjune","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogjune-2","tag-blogjune"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-1hX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5010,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}