{"id":4298,"date":"2017-03-21T20:42:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T03:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:36:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:36:33","slug":"im-a-terrible-gardener-but-i-keep-trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/im-a-terrible-gardener-but-i-keep-trying\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a terrible gardener, but I keep trying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started a bunch of vegetable seeds two weeks ago, and I seem to have gone a bit overboard with the lettuce. So sometime starting in late April-early May I&#8217;m going to be harvesting bunches of lettuce.<\/p>\n<p>Also expect there to be tons of lettuce drawings. Otherwise, what a waste. I mean, it&#8217;s so much lettuce. What am I supposed to do with it all? Eat it?<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a copy of &#8220;Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces with Jane Davenport&#8221; from Amazon. I really like it so far, though I&#8217;m still a bit away from making anything that looks <em>good<\/em>-good versus &#8220;looks like people&#8221;-ish amateur sketchery. Still, I&#8217;m going to keep trying.<\/p>\n<p>This is my first drawing colored<\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/small_Drawing-pic01.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4299\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/small_Drawing-pic01.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024\" alt=\"\" title=\"small_drawing-pic01-jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that I get better ^_^;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started a bunch of vegetable seeds two weeks ago, and I seem to have gone a bit overboard with the lettuce. So sometime starting in late April-early May I&#8217;m going to be harvesting bunches of lettuce. Also expect there to be tons of lettuce drawings. Otherwise, what a waste. I mean, it&#8217;s so much&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/im-a-terrible-gardener-but-i-keep-trying\/\" title=\"I&#8217;m a terrible gardener, but I keep trying\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m a terrible gardener, but I keep trying<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[343],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-4298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-gardening","tag-gardening"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-17k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2620,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/aquaponics-growing-vegetables-and-fish-together\/","url_meta":{"origin":4298,"position":0},"title":"Aquaponics &#8211; growing vegetables and fish together","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"August 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so I spent a ridiculous amount of time watching videos on aquaponics and I am simply amazed by the whole concept. 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