{"id":3714,"date":"2010-12-07T02:15:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2011-01-21T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T16:20:10","slug":"on-december-7th-2010-plastic-bottle-seed-starter-cold-house-water-catchment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2010\/12\/07\/on-december-7th-2010-plastic-bottle-seed-starter-cold-house-water-catchment\/","title":{"rendered":"On December 7th, 2010, PLASTIC BOTTLE SEED-STARTER COLD-HOUSE WATER-CATCHMENT&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3715\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3715\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/2010\/12\/07\/on-december-7th-2010-plastic-bottle-seed-starter-cold-house-water-catchment\/2010-12-07-p1170903\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3715\" title=\"bottle gardening\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-07-P1170903-266x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-07-P1170903-266x150.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-07-P1170903-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-12-07-P1170903.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">bottle gardening, before (left), &#39;cold-cover&#39; arrangement with cover to keep the plants warm on cool nights (middle), and &#39;water-catchment&#39; arrangement with bottom on top to collect water in hot dry weather (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;is a simple little system I have going on the Roman rooftop garden (also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/garden\/initiatives\/edibleestates\/rome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Edible Estate #9: Rome, Italy<\/a>) which involves collecting unwanted empty containers (from American Academy residents, who also happen to write their names on their bottles when they leave them in the communal kitchens, which adds a really cute personal kindergarten-like detail to the garden) &#8211; and then (a) they are cut in half (b) the cap is placed inside the bottom of the neck to keep the soil in place (c) the &#8216;top&#8217; half is then filled with soil and planted with seeds (d) the &#8216;bottom&#8217; is then either used as a cold-cover or base to catch water depending on the weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is a simple little system I have going on the Roman rooftop garden (also known as Edible Estate #9: Rome, Italy) which involves collecting unwanted empty containers (from\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[311,1748,1730,583,1759],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","tag-american-academy-in-rome","tag-edible-estates","tag-gardens","tag-roman-rooftop","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4919,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/4919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}