{"id":318,"date":"2008-01-09T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T01:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-06-04T16:45:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T23:45:28","slug":"old-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Old seeds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carol over at May Dreams Gardens<a href=\"http:\/\/maydreamsgardens.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/old-seeds-call-out-for-old-seeds.html\"> found some seed packets dating back to 1886<\/a> when she was going through her seeds the other day.  I didn&#8217;t see any &#8216;packed for&#8217; dates on these, but I suspect they&#8217;re older.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/CastorBean.jpg\" alt=\"old seed packet\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/OnionPhoto0004.jpg\" alt=\"old seed packet\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/OnionPhoto0005.jpg\" alt=\"old seed packet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(I always thought &#8216;Australian Brown&#8217; was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phespirit.info\/montypython\/australian_table_wines.htm\">table wine<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/TallNasturtium.jpg\" alt=\"old seed packet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is what I&#8217;ll be using to fertilize the veggies this year:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/SeaFowlCard.jpg\" alt=\"old seed packet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you may have guessed, these are actually vintage seed packets from my friend Marcia&#8217;s collection.  I&#8217;ve still got a few packets left from my Y2K purchases, but Carol&#8217;s 1986 packs beat me by more than a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol over at May Dreams Gardens found some seed packets dating back to 1886 when she was going through her seeds the other day. I didn&#8217;t see any &#8216;packed for&#8217; dates on these, but I suspect they&#8217;re older. (I always thought &#8216;Australian Brown&#8217; was a table wine.) And this is what I&#8217;ll be using to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old seeds?&#8221;<\/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":[11,13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annuals","category-art","category-veggies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}