{"id":570,"date":"2009-07-13T07:49:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T11:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=570"},"modified":"2009-07-13T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T11:50:35","slug":"aquatic_plant_potting_soil_recipe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/articles\/aquatic_plant_potting_soil_recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquatic Plant Potting Soil Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sherry Mitchell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sherry Mitchell maintains a beautiful 2000 gallon pond with several varieties of water lilies. To pot her lilies, and other aquatic plants, Sherry uses this recipe to meet their nutrition requirements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Osmocote Time Release Fertilizer<\/li>\n<li> One Part Heavy Garden Compost or Topsoil (no peat!)<\/li>\n<li> One Part Walmart Red Bag Plain Kitty Litter<\/li>\n<li> Gravel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Instructions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Put fertilizer in bottom of planting pot.<\/li>\n<li>Layer garden compost.<\/li>\n<li>Plant aquatic plants.<\/li>\n<li>Top with a layer of kitty litter.<\/li>\n<li>Wet with water<\/li>\n<li>Top with gravel.<\/li>\n<li>Slowly sink to desired level in pond or water garden.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For more information on Sherry garden and pond, please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/june-2009-meeting-notes\/\">June 2009 meeting notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_576\" style=\"width: 331px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DSC_0078.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-576\" class=\"size-full wp-image-576\" title=\"June 2009: Sherry Mitchell's Pond\" src=\"http:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/DSC_0078.JPG\" alt=\"June 2009: Sherry Mitchell's Pond\" width=\"321\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sherry Mitchell&#39;s Pond<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sherry Mitchell Sherry Mitchell maintains a beautiful 2000 gallon pond with several varieties of water lilies. To pot her lilies, and other aquatic plants, Sherry uses this recipe to meet their nutrition requirements. Ingredients: Osmocote Time Release Fertilizer One Part Heavy Garden Compost or Topsoil (no peat!) One Part Walmart Red Bag Plain Kitty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":54,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570\/revisions\/604"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gwapa.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}