{"id":1969,"date":"2014-12-10T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T08:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-112\/"},"modified":"2014-12-10T00:01:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T08:01:43","slug":"garden-tip-112","status":"publish","type":"tool","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-112\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Tip #112"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the garden grows, so do the weeds.  Act early before the problem gets totally out of hand. At the very least don&#8217;t let the weeds go to seed.  The book <em>Maria Rodale&#8217;s Organic Gardening<\/em> (Rodale, 1998) has a chapter on fighting weeds that includes suggestions for getting motivated.  The author suggests focusing weeding efforts on just one defined patch per session for a set amount of time.  She also reports the best motivator of all is a deadline: invite your friends and family over for a Sunday afternoon barbeque and be amazed at how much weeding gets done in the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the garden grows, so do the weeds. Act early before the problem gets totally out of hand. At the very least don&#8217;t let the weeds go to seed. The book Maria Rodale&#8217;s Organic Gardening (Rodale, 1998) has a chapter on fighting weeds that includes suggestions for getting motivated. The author suggests focusing weeding efforts on just one defined patch per session for a set amount of time. She also reports the best motivator of all is a deadline: invite&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-112\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Tip #112<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[143],"class_list":["post-1969","tool","type-tool","status-publish","hentry","keyword-weed-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tool"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}