{"id":18278,"date":"2017-05-01T19:53:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18278"},"modified":"2017-05-01T19:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:53:35","slug":"growing-all-sorts-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/books\/growing-all-sorts-of-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing all Sorts of Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1785035592\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1785035592.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Why You Might want to Grow Edible Stuff<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Food stuff is top of the list in Mazlow&#8217;s hierarchy of need.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Growing your own&#8217; to feed the family has been a priority for centuries.<\/li>\n<li>Farmers, market gardeners and smallholders all contribute edible stuff as do allotment holders and the majority of gardeners.<\/li>\n<li>Windowsills, greenhouses, conservatories and sunny sheltered spots can be used to grow tomatoes and salad crops for example.<\/li>\n<li>Herbs add taste to many dishes\u00c2\u00a0 and\u00c2\u00a0 basil, mint, parsley, rosemary and chillies,\u00c2\u00a0 are all stuff you can grow quite easily.<\/li>\n<li>Stuff called Curcurbits such as courgettes, squash, pumpkins and cucumbers are comparatively easy to grow with a bit of shelter and warmth.<\/li>\n<li>Tasty specialties are now more commonplace but Pineapples were grown in special stove houses in the 17th and 18th centuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What Other Stuff You Might want to Grow<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Man can&#8217;t live by bread alone so aesthetic stuff needs to be grown to feed the inner man.<\/li>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Flowers and decorative plants come in all shapes and sizes. Cacti, Holly, Ivy and poinsettia are seasonal stuff you can try.<\/li>\n<li>Stuff for indoors includes a range of bulbs and windowsill plants. Old Aspidistra and other evergreen leaved plants have a reputation of cleaning the air. A reputation probably earned when we all had coal fires.<\/li>\n<li>Growing stuff in a formal manner from a large landscape to a small Knot garden can be time consuming but rewarding.<\/li>\n<li>Organic and environmentally friendly grown stuff has its own reward.<\/li>\n<li>Forestry, heath and heather, parks and pleasure grounds all serve a visual or emotional purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14806\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/021-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/021-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/021.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>How to Grow Stuff<\/h3>\n<p>You will have guessed it &#8211; read the book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why You Might want to Grow Edible Stuff Food stuff is top of the list in Mazlow&#8217;s hierarchy of need. &#8216;Growing your own&#8217; to feed the family has been a priority for centuries. Farmers, market gardeners and smallholders all contribute edible stuff as do allotment holders and the majority of gardeners. Windowsills, greenhouses, conservatories and sunny sheltered spots can be used to grow tomatoes and salad crops for example. Herbs add taste to many dishes\u00c2\u00a0 and\u00c2\u00a0 basil, mint, parsley, rosemary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/books\/growing-all-sorts-of-stuff\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-novice-gardeners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}