{"id":54,"date":"2017-01-10T12:07:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2017-01-10T12:07:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:07:43","slug":"fire-ant-and-gardening-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/fire-ant-and-gardening-an-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Ant and Gardening &#8211; An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the tag line for this blog, &#8220;The Gardener&#8217;s First Stop&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Because when you start gardening in the south the first reason you will want to quit is fire ant sting.<\/p>\n<p>I want my blog to be the first website that you check when looking for information, suggestions, entertainment, encouragement, and camaraderie. \u00a0Gardening is not for the faint of heart. \u00a0Gardening exposes you to the cycle of life in all of its phases every day. \u00a0In the garden you will observe beautiful and inspirational beginnings, a ripening fruit, a cotyledon with an empty seed coat on its tip. \u00a0But also the desperation and death, the tomato riddled with stink bugs,\u00a0frost destroyed begonia. \u00a0It is an exhilarating roller coaster ride worth sharing.<\/p>\n<p>Okra Garden Supply should be your first stop is that when you decide to build your first raised bed and embark on your gardening journey so you won&#8217;t have to fear the\u00a0<strong>FIRE ANT\u00a0<\/strong>sting.<\/p>\n<p>Those\u00a0stings hurt! \u00a0&#8220;Forget working with my hands outside&#8221; you might think. \u00a0What can \u00a0I do? \u00a0I don&#8217;t want to pour poison on my land. \u00a0The whole point of gardening is be cleaner, fresher, and healthier of mind, body, and spirit. \u00a0It is counter productive to drench your dirt with poison in order to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>But do not fear! \u00a0There is a solution! \u00a0We can combat the fire ant, keep it bay. \u00a0Protect ourselves from this feisty and effective creature with <strong>DIATOMITE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Buy Some!<\/p>\n<p>Try Some!<\/p>\n<p>Fear the fire ant no more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the tag line for this blog, &#8220;The Gardener&#8217;s First Stop&#8221;? Because when you start gardening in the south the first reason you will want to quit is fire ant sting. I want my blog to be the first website that you check when looking for information, suggestions, entertainment, encouragement, and camaraderie. \u00a0Gardening is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okragardensupply.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}