{"id":1598,"date":"2021-06-02T22:14:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T05:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2021-06-02T22:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T05:24:52","slug":"growing-shiso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/growing-shiso\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Shiso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Shiso-2021-06-02-1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Shiso-2021-06-02-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1603\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>The first month of our shiso plants. Left: green shiso; right: red shiso.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This season I got a head start on the garden, and also started branching out with some interesting-sounding seed packets from <a href=\"http:\/\/kitazawaseed.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"kitazawaseed.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local growers<\/a>. One herb I absolutely love, but have only ever seen in Japanese food, is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shiso\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shiso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shiso leaf<\/a>. I wanted to see if we could grow it here, and what else we could do with it besides roll it in sushi.  So far it&#8217;s been a raging success: a ridiculous number of sprouts have come up, seemingly twice as many as the seeds I planted. The leaves are gorgeous and super aromatic. Really looking forward to seeing what we can make out of this later in the year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cassidy\/51208972188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/51208972188_7989f8a423_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/51208972188_7989f8a423_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/51208972188_7989f8a423_c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/51208972188_7989f8a423_c-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>It&#8217;s also really fantastic on avocado toast. Left: with pepitas, ancho chile flakes, and cilantro from the garden. Right: with sesame and red shiso.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This season I got a head start on the garden, and also started branching out with some interesting-sounding seed packets from local growers. One herb I absolutely love, but have only ever seen in Japanese food, is shiso leaf. I wanted to see if we could grow it here, and what else we could do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/growing-shiso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Growing Shiso<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,202,152,25],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-gardening","category-recipes","category-timelapse","tag-shiso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}