{"id":684352,"date":"2010-03-06T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70807"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:14:57","slug":"come-saturday-morning-the-year-of-the-tomato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/684352","title":{"rendered":"Come Saturday Morning: The Year of the Tomato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/06\/come-saturday-morning-the-year-of-the-tomato\/tomato-sprouts\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70809\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/tomato-sprouts.jpg?resize=275%2C156\" alt=\"\" title=\"tomato-sprouts\" width=\"275\" height=\"156\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70809\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s the first week of March up here at the forty-fifth parallel, and I&#8217;m starting some tomato plants from seed.  I&#8217;ve got them in one of those plastic vented carriers for roast chicken; the lid&#8217;s been popped to show you the seedlings, but it went right back on again after this photo was taken.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, I&#8217;ll transfer the survivors into bigger containers in about a month or so, by which time the weather might have warmed enough to allow them to go outside.   I intend to be up to my eyeballs in tomatoes round about August.   I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p>So what unbearably exciting things have you been up to this week?<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70807&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_70807\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first week of March up here at the forty-fifth parallel, and I&#8217;m starting some tomato plants from seed. I&#8217;ve got them in one of those plastic vented carriers for roast chicken; the lid&#8217;s been popped to show you the seedlings, but it went right back on again after this photo was taken. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2S1W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785630,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684352\/revisions\/785630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}