{"id":45,"date":"2019-02-28T19:38:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2019-04-07T23:56:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T23:56:59","slug":"enriching-the-soil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/enriching-the-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"Enriching the Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good gardening begins with good soil. Successful gardeners need a basic understanding of soil because soil conditions strongly influence how plants grow. Earthworms, beneficial bacteria, and fungi are just a few of the organisms that live in soil, feed on organic matter, and help decay and recycle plant nutrients. These organisms help break down rock, plant, and animal matter and release their nutrients in forms that plants can use.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"pl-gb45-6a278fe90a916\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-gb45-6a278fe90a916-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb45-6a278fe90a916-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb45-6a278fe90a916-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-button panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-button so-widget-sow-button-atom-dacfcddb2534-45\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"ow-button-base ow-button-align-left\"\n>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/deciding-what-to-plant\/providing-irrigation\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"sowb-button ow-icon-placement-top ow-button-hover\" \t>\n\t\t<span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tPrevious\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-gb45-6a278fe90a916-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb45-6a278fe90a916-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-button panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-button so-widget-sow-button-atom-6d886a62161e-45\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div class=\"ow-button-base ow-button-align-right\"\n>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/deciding-what-to-plant\/soil-texture-and-structure\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"sowb-button ow-icon-placement-top ow-button-hover\" \t>\n\t\t<span>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tNext\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good gardening begins with good soil. Successful gardeners need a basic understanding of soil because soil conditions strongly influence how plants grow. Earthworms, beneficial bacteria, and fungi are just a few of the organisms that live in soil, feed on organic matter, and help decay and recycle plant nutrients. These organisms help break down rock, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/enriching-the-soil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enriching the Soil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}