I have a black thumb; if plants talked, they’d call me “The Terminator”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But I try.\u00a0 I’m going to the Friends’ School Plant Sale this weekend and loading up on annuals for the front flowerbed and the flower boxes along the front walkway, as well as jalapenos, tomatoes, habaneros, cilantro and onions for salsa.\u00a0 I’m going to try my hand at canning the salsa in such a way as to make it not intensely poisonous.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So it’s good to see that not only is my neighbor MidwayPete blogging about gardening stuff<\/a>, but that my old college friend Jackie (who is married to my high school acquaintance Brian, formerly “Mr. Cheer Or Die” of Vikings fame) is done some <\/em>writing again for her garden\/lifestyle\/diaryblog “Through The Garden Gate<\/a>“.\u00a0 Jackie has solid potential to be the next Martha Stewart – and I mean that in a good way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a black thumb; if plants talked, they’d call me “The Terminator”.\u00a0 But I try.\u00a0 I’m going to the Friends’ School Plant Sale this weekend and loading up on annuals for the front flowerbed and the flower boxes along the front walkway, as well as jalapenos, tomatoes, habaneros, cilantro and onions for salsa.\u00a0 I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}