{"id":224,"date":"2016-01-27T17:06:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:4001\/wordpress\/?p=224"},"modified":"2016-01-27T17:06:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:06:30","slug":"more-ways-to-save-water-in-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/2016\/01\/27\/more-ways-to-save-water-in-your-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"More Ways to Save Water in Your Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Check for and repair leaky hose connections and sprinkler valves. Small leaks can be very wasteful.<\/li>\n<li>Water in the cool parts of the day to cut down on evaporation.<\/li>\n<li>Add compost to your soil to improve its water-holding capacity.<\/li>\n<li>Ask your nursery person about low-water-using turf, and raise your lawnmower cutting height. Longer grass blades help shade each other and cut down on evaporation.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t over-water \u2013 water only when the soil is dry.<\/li>\n<li>Water trees and shrubs \u2013 which have deep root systems \u2013 longer and less frequently than shallow-rooted plants, which require smaller amounts of water or more often.<\/li>\n<li>When planting, remember that smaller-size container plants require less water to become established.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Check for and repair leaky hose connections and sprinkler valves. Small leaks can be very wasteful. Water in the cool parts of the day to cut down on evaporation. Add compost to your soil to improve its water-holding capacity. Ask your nursery person about low-water-using turf, and raise your \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/2016\/01\/27\/more-ways-to-save-water-in-your-garden\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warriorriverwater.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}