{"id":1620,"date":"2009-07-06T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2009-07-06T21:55:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T02:55:43","slug":"my-brown-thumb-is-turning-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/my-brown-thumb-is-turning-green\/","title":{"rendered":"my brown thumb is turning green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I come from gardener genes&#8230;until this year I thought they skipped over me. Well we are having a harvest of tomatoes, all kinds of peppers and eggplants. I&#8217;m not sure what to do with all of it. If anyone knows any good eggplant recipes pass them along. I&#8217;m seeing some homeade salsa in my future&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/7.09\/7.09garden-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"678\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When we were engaged our pastor recommended we be married for a year, then grow a plant for a year, then get a dog for a year&#8230;then consider kids. We did it all backwards. Our yard was a clean slate as far as landscaping goes, so last year I TOILED to start a flower garden in the front.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Here is was in September 08:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1621\" title=\"709garden-5\" src=\"http:\/\/ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/709garden-5.jpg\" alt=\"709garden-5\" width=\"610\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/709garden-5.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/709garden-5-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And now July 2009&#8230;I can&#8217;t believe how much it has grown!<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/7.09\/7.09garden-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1149\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have to post these flowers because Chris refers to them as my &#8216;weeds&#8217;. They just turned yellow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the past months they have been about 6 feet tall and just green&#8230;they did look like huge weeds until now.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/7.09\/7.09garden-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"685\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Just to be honest&#8230;these are the flower pots as you walk into the house. This is what all my flowers have looked like in years past. Evidently I can&#8217;t keep potted plants alive, so I will stick to the planted in the ground kind. Sad.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/7.09\/7.09garden-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"522\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come from gardener genes&#8230;until this year I thought they skipped over me. Well we are having a harvest of tomatoes, all kinds of peppers and eggplants. I&#8217;m not sure what to do with all of it. If anyone knows any good eggplant recipes pass them along. I&#8217;m seeing some homeade salsa in my future&#8230;. When we were engaged our pastor recommended we be married for a year, then grow a plant for a year, then get a dog for a year&#8230;then consider kids. We did it all backwards. Our yard was a clean slate as far as landscaping goes, so last year I TOILED to start a flower garden in the front. Here is was in September 08: And now July 2009&#8230;I can&#8217;t believe how much it has grown! I have to post these flowers because Chris refers to them as my &#8216;weeds&#8217;. They just turned yellow. For the past months they have been about 6 feet tall and just green&#8230;they did look like huge weeds until now. Just to be honest&#8230;these are the flower pots as you walk into the house. This is what all my flowers have looked like in years past. Evidently I can&#8217;t keep potted plants alive, so I will stick to the planted in the ground kind. Sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashleyannphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}