{"id":9567,"date":"2020-12-19T05:22:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2020-12-19T05:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:22:37","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-340-calendula-officinalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/19\/plant-a-day-2020-day-340-calendula-officinalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 340) Calendula officinalis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Calendula, or pot marigold, is a perky, very hardy plant usually grown as an annual, but wintering over here in zone 8b. The plants that I have started from a free pack that was sent with some mail ordered seeds about ten years ago. I planted them around the raised vegetable beds to the south of the greenhouse and they\u2019ve been with me ever since through volunteer seedlings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These might be the easiest plants of all to grow from seed, and they pack a lot of flower punch over the course of the warm months and the not-so-warm months of November and December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You don\u2019t really choose your future with calendula plants\u2013they are just always there once you\u2019ve planted them. I cultivated one of the raised veggie beds this autumn and now there are dozens of calendula seedlings braving the cold soil there and growing on the warm days. I will keep them around just for the cheery blooms and the confidence they instill\u2013when all my vegetable plantings fail, at least there are nice-looking pot marigolds around to make me feel like my efforts weren\u2019t all in vain. <\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calendula, or pot marigold, is a perky, very hardy plant usually grown as an annual, but wintering over here in zone 8b. The plants that I have started from a free pack that was sent with some mail ordered seeds about ten years ago. I planted them around the raised vegetable beds to the south … Continue reading Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 340) Calendula officinalis<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9570,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions\/9570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}