{"id":2677,"date":"2020-07-06T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essn.us\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:39:51","slug":"culinary-herbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essn.us\/?p=2677","title":{"rendered":"Culinary herbs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Container gardens can be interesting. Specially the ones with focal points. Even with sparse resources, spared clay pots, spent tea and coffee grounds can amend an area for a small project. Some species are invasive though. According to experienced growers, thyme is a prime example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oregano and thyme<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>My all-time favorite perennial herb is Greek oregano. I enjoy tying up tiny bunches to dry. Small batches can cure in two weeks. Fresh oregano is delightful too. This spring, &#8217;20, I discovered German thyme. This variety has tiny leaves with an aroma similar to oregano. Best used fresh is my guess; although I tried leaves cooked into rice that made a savory difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Catnip anyone?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally achieved growing catnip from a seed packet. I know at least three cats that will be amused with it, myself included. Looking at so many items on etsy.com encourages even more ideas. There&#8217;s a peanut looking thing that could at least use some eyes. Cats don&#8217;t mind though. Some do, some don&#8217;t care for it at all.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Container gardens can be interesting. Specially the ones with focal points. Even with sparse resources, spared clay pots, spent tea and coffee grounds can amend an area for a small project. Some species are invasive though. According to experienced growers, thyme is a prime example. Oregano and thyme My all-time favorite perennial herb is Greek&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}