{"id":611,"date":"2026-01-09T11:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T02:45:32","slug":"early-january-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/09\/early-january-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Early January Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have two trays of seedlings I’ve started hardening off this week. Both of these were done with re-used potting mix, and the results have been mid. Part of that though is I oversaturated them with water a couple of times early on. Using bottom watering, I left them sitting in it too long. I’ve since corrected that mistake, increased airflow, and lined the tops of the cells with vermiculite to discourage fungi etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also got some shelving so that my seedling setup has a place not<\/em><\/strong> under my desk, which has been very nice so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The catnip, lavender, and peppermint I started end of October is looking good, but I think it’s still too cool to harden those off for outside. Planning to keep them inside for another couple of months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also this week I made Albondigas soup, a favorite of mine, and I got to use recently harvested potatoes and cilantro. Small thing, but I am proud to use food I’ve grown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, I started a new compost pile yesterday. The previous one should be completely ready in a couple of months for Spring prep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have two trays of seedlings I’ve started hardening off this week. Both of these were done with re-used potting mix, and the results have been mid. Part of that though is I oversaturated them with water a couple of times early on. Using bottom watering, I left them sitting in it too long. I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}