{"id":49,"date":"2026-07-27T05:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/2026\/07\/27\/a-watering-plan-for-the-first-summer-after-planting\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T05:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:21:48","slug":"a-watering-plan-for-the-first-summer-after-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/2026\/07\/27\/a-watering-plan-for-the-first-summer-after-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"A watering plan for the first summer after planting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New planting does not want a little water often. It wants a lot, occasionally \u2014 enough to soak past the root ball and pull roots downward into the surrounding soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A long soak twice a week beats a daily sprinkle every time. Ten minutes with a hose on a slow trickle at the base of each plant is worth an hour of overhead spraying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New planting does not want a little water often. It wants a lot, occasionally \u2014 enough to soak past the root ball&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-gardening-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}