{"id":7950,"date":"2025-06-25T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.farmwp.com\/pollard\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:20:33","slug":"soil-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmwp.com\/pollard\/soil-temperature\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sowed some beans and melons and got really poor germination. Seeds were for 2022 which is a little old but not that old. Checked my soil temps yesterday. At 6am, 2 inches down, 77 degrees. At 3pm, 2 inches down in bare soil, 98 degrees. In the shade of tomato plants and under a pile of leaves, 86 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>My germination temp charts don&#8217;t even bother giving a germination time for temps over 95. I mulched the beds with hay yesterday and am reseeding the bean\/melon this morning and will see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sowed some beans and melons and got really poor germination. Seeds were for 2022 which is a little old but not that old. Checked my soil temps yesterday. At 6am, 2 inches down, 77 degrees. At 3pm, 2 inches down in bare soil, 98 degrees. In the shade of tomato plants and under a pile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmwp.com\/pollard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmwp.com\/pollard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmwp.com\/pollard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmwp.com\/pollard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmwp.com\/pollard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farmwp.com\/pollard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmwp.com\/pollard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmwp.com\/pollard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmwp.com\/pollard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}