{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Paying attention to the garden in spring, it\u2019s really amazing how fast plants grow, at least around here\n\n (Portland is...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/159768310708/", "html": "<p>Paying attention to the garden in spring, it\u2019s really amazing how fast plants grow, at least around here</p>\n\n<p>(Portland is relatively recent volcanic soil enriched by several mountain ranges worth of seasonal and glacial flood deposits and surrounded by rainforests)</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019m trying to keep dandelions from reestablishing themselves after pulling a ton last year, so I\u2019m scanning the ground every day and I\u2019ll pull everything and come back the next day and find whole plants - tiny, but complete, tiny little rosette of leaves, tiny little one flower in blossom on one inch of stem - that popped up in the 10 hours of sunlight since I last checked.</p>\n\n<p>There\u2019s a view out the window from the couch where I\u2019m sitting now, that passes through the branches of two trees getting their leaves in, and every hour I look up its more opaquely occluded</p>"}