{"id":175,"date":"2017-01-30T12:09:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2017-01-30T12:09:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:09:56","slug":"squash-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/squash-transplants\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash Transplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SquashVolunteersInPlace.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SquashVolunteersInPlace.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original sprouts growing out of rotted pumpkin in the compost pile. Many seeds visible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SquashVolunteersTransplant2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SquashVolunteersTransplant2-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here you can see the transplanted squash in a 12 compartment trey. I grabbed the mulch that was surrounding the sprouts when I replanted them so it is a bit difficult to see the individual compartments.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the spot in the compost where we threw the old pumpkin that we didn\u2019t have time to clean and carve.\u00a0 Look at those beauties.\u00a0 You can see the seeds and the sprouts. Cucurbitacea, one of the gardener\u2019s favorite botanical families for a number of reasons.\u00a0 First, there are lots of yummy veggies in this family, cucumbers, pumpkins, and melons.\u00a0 So, there are many tasty reasons to have one in your garden.\u00a0 Second reason I love cucurbitacea, large seeds.\u00a0 Of course the leafy greens are lovely but managing those pinhead sized seeds can be a bit of a trick, squash seeds are no problem.\u00a0 Easy to see and easy to plant.\u00a0 Finally, I love the shape of the leaves.\u00a0 When the cotyledons emerge, they are large and round and happy, when the first true leave emerges you can tell right away that you have a squash growing, because of the serration.\u00a0 And if they have soil and sun and water, there may be no stopping the squash plant.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to see how these transplanted squash fair in 2017!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This post was mentioned in the future!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/when-to-transplant-veggie-starts\/\">When To Plant Veggie Starts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the spot in the compost where we threw the old pumpkin that we didn\u2019t have time to clean and carve.\u00a0 Look at those beauties.\u00a0 You can see the seeds and the sprouts. Cucurbitacea, one of the gardener\u2019s favorite botanical families for a number of reasons.\u00a0 First, there are lots of yummy veggies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants","category-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}