{"id":2036,"date":"2011-03-17T00:07:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2011-03-17T00:07:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T23:07:37","slug":"we-plant-the-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"We plant the seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/seeds1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2037\" title=\"seeds1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/seeds1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/seeds1.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/seeds1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/seeds2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2038\" title=\"seeds2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/seeds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/seeds2.jpg 580w, http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/seeds2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My foray into vegetable gardening begins in earnest. Time to plant some seeds! Very satisfying it was too, to select and soak a range of seeds overnight before populating some indoor seed trays, and eagerly await signs of germination. If you are of a slightly queasy nature, please look away now&#8230; the seed soaking included some of my own saliva. It may be an old wives tale (in fact, it is. It comes from the writings of Anastasia, a Russian healer) and the theory is that creating such a &#8216;personal&#8217; connection with your plants encourages them to develop in a way which complements your own physiology. It makes some sense. It certainly brings the idea of local and seasonal food very close to home. I&#8217;m looking forward to see what grows from this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My foray into vegetable gardening begins in earnest. Time to plant some seeds! Very satisfying it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[327],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-organic-gardening","tag-anastasia","comments-open","no-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wholefoodkitchen.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}