{"id":754,"date":"2008-06-11T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wednesday-june-11-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-06-11T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T21:39:00","slug":"wednesday-june-11-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wednesday-june-11-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday June 11, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

My thumb is brown.  At least my geranium thumb.  Or maybe it’s color-blind.  I don’t know.  I only know that I have killed every geranium I bought since we’re married except the very first ones.  This is an annual event.  I buy geraniums.  I bring them home.  Six weeks later they are dead or so nearly there I pitch them and let them finish taking their last breath in the woods where I don’t have to be tormented any longer.<\/p>\n

Four weeks ago my porch had that “just planted hoping for a great summer” look.<\/p>\n

\"May<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Today the geraniums look like this.  <\/p>\n

\"June<\/a> <\/span>\"June<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Last year the greenhouse people confirmed my diagnosis.  I kept them too wet and they died of a fungus.  By the time I saw the tell-tale black spots it was too late to treat them.  This year I made SURE I didn’t overwater them.  I don’t see fungus.  Just brown leaves.  And a gazillion teeny brown bugs that scatter everywhere if I move the pots.  The other flowers grow.  David Lee says plant something else.  BUT.I.WANT.GERANIUMS.ON.MY.FRONT.PORCH.  They just fit.  Please, please someone tell me what I’m doing wrong.  Yes they get sun.  And no, “hey you just had a baby cut yourself some slack” comments either, please (I told you this happens every year).  Geraniums aren’t that hard to grow.  Or so I thought.  So what’s wrong with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My thumb is brown.  At least my geranium thumb.  Or maybe it’s color-blind.  I don’t know.  I only know that I have killed every geranium I bought since we’re married… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39ynQ-ca","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}