{"id":7856,"date":"2014-08-12T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2016-09-07T20:16:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T01:16:24","slug":"the-accidental-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7856","title":{"rendered":"The Accidental Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0067\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5588\/14695270027_2509d00420_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0067\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5588\/14695270027_2509d00420_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0067\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0064\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3868\/14695125300_6fb8a33e65_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0064\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3868\/14695125300_6fb8a33e65_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0064\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other day, I was walking back to the play area of our back yard. It&#8217;s just beyond our garden and honestly, I don&#8217;t go back there all too often. A few weeks ago, to keep the boys occupied, I gave them half a bag of dried beans (I think the 12-bean soup kind) and they disappeared back there with a pot and some water, claiming to be busy making soup. Fast forward a few weeks, and lo and behold, those forgotten beans had sprouted. In the sand box.\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0071\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3908\/14695126620_0f18dfea4c_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0071\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3908\/14695126620_0f18dfea4c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0071\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And so yes, we harvested bean sprouts (and don&#8217;t worry, the sand box is clean!).\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0081\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5571\/14879353274_89f11f8145_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0081\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5571\/14879353274_89f11f8145_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0081\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And after a good soak, rinse, and removal of the roots, we had some pretty tasty bean sprouts (perfect on their own, or on a sandwich, or on top of a salad)! What a pleasant surprise! The boys were completely blown away.\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0090\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5574\/14695128890_3cf6960788_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0090\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5574\/14695128890_3cf6960788_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0090\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" \/><\/a>A good reminder that good things to eat are so easy to grow!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I was walking back to the play area of our back yard. It&#8217;s just beyond our garden and honestly, I don&#8217;t go back there all too often. A few weeks ago, to keep the boys occupied, I gave them half a bag of dried beans (I think the 12-bean soup kind) and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Accidental Garden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,99],"tags":[115,75,171],"class_list":["post-7856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","category-green-living","tag-garden","tag-ingenius-ideas","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}