{"id":224,"date":"2004-09-19T19:22:42","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T17:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=224"},"modified":"2011-09-24T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T12:41:16","slug":"and-then-there-were-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"And then there were eleven<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m beginning to think that someone out there does not want me to grow geraniums from seed. Readers may recall that I sowed three packets of seeds at the beginning of July. In the beginning there were twenty-four seeds — plenty, I figured, to assure my success. <\/p>\n

Within a week or so, eighteen of the seeds had germinated and I moved them carefully to small, individual pots. I gave four of the little plants away, leaving me with fourteen — still plenty, I figured, to assure my success.<\/p>\n

All was going along swimmingly until Tage the Terrible struck<\/a> in early August. Somehow we managed to avert major disaster, however, and the fourteen small plants thrived in their new home, lined up in a row in a long planter box. Unfortunately, I no longer knew which variety was which, but seeing as I had plenty of plants to assure my success, I wasn’t worried about waiting until bloom-time to get them sorted.<\/p>\n

The next six weeks passed by uneventfully enough, and the plants continued to grow well. I had begun thinking about moving them to individual pots but hadn’t gotten around to doing it yet. A couple of days ago I was doing a routine check of my plants, and I noticed that someone or something had been digging in the soil of the planter box and a number of the plants had been uprooted. Nothing was seriously amiss, however, so I righted the plants and put the incident out of my mind for the next couple of days. <\/p>\n

Early Friday evening, on our way out the door, I stepped inside the geranium room to flip on the fluorescent lights. When I glanced over at the shelves holding my plants, I didn’t know whether to laugh or tear my hair out.<\/p>\n

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So this time it was Moa who was terrible, and my little plants are much, much the worse for wear. I was able to salvage only eleven of them, and to be honest, at least half of them look more than a little bedraggled. I’ll be amazed, frankly, if any of them lives long enough for me to determine its variety. Suddenly I no longer have anything close to plenty, I figure, to assure my success.<\/p>\n

And suddenly I see the advantages of having a lock on the geranium-room door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m beginning to think that someone out there does not want me to grow geraniums from seed. Readers may recall that I sowed three packets of seeds at the beginning of July. In the beginning there were twenty-four seeds — plenty, I figured, to assure my success. Within a week or so, eighteen of the… Read More And then there were eleven<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}