{"id":681,"date":"2019-02-27T03:36:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/?page_id=681"},"modified":"2020-05-06T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:57:09","slug":"summer-maintenance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/summer-maintenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maintaining a school garden during the summer, amid vacation plans, is a common challenge. You want to enjoy the break to renew your spirits, but you don\u2019t want to see all the hard work from the school year transform a beautiful garden into a jungle of weeds. Suggestions for simplifying summer maintenance include:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Choosing low-maintenance plants.<\/li>\r\n<li>Growing plants that will thrive on their own without much attention. Two characteristics to look for are drought tolerance and vigorous foliage that will smother or out-compete weeds.<\/li>\r\n<li>Adding a thick layer of mulch to reduce weed growth, maintain soil moisture, and enrich the soil as it decays.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div id=\"pl-gb681-6a279065ef663\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-gb681-6a279065ef663-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb681-6a279065ef663-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb681-6a279065ef663-0-0-0\" 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-dacfcddb2534-681\"\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\/create-a-calendar\/\"\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-gb681-6a279065ef663-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb681-6a279065ef663-0-1-0\" 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-681\"\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\/watering\/\"\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>Maintaining a school garden during the summer, amid vacation plans, is a common challenge. You want to enjoy the break to renew your spirits, but you don\u2019t want to see all the hard work from the school year transform a beautiful garden into a jungle of weeds. Suggestions for simplifying summer maintenance include: Choosing low-maintenance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/summer-maintenance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer Maintenance<\/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-681","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastergardenerssandiego.org\/schools\/plant-a-seed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}