{"id":1040,"date":"2007-07-03T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:32:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:32:48","slug":"too-much-of-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Too much of a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/IMG_2683.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082757235505503538\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/IMG_2683-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Everything in the pond is growing out of control!  The mint that grows along the rock edge is spilling over and sending roots into the pond.  The water lettuce and hyacinths that we bought in early May are reproducing at a frightening rate.  We bought three of each and must have at least 50 of each now just two months later!  It&#8217;s no wonder those two are considered noxious weeds in tropical climates.  I&#8217;ll have to find friends with ponds who might like a few dozen floating plants.  Maybe I can throw in a dozen baby fish for free?  Having some shade and cover for the fish is important, but you can see from this pic that more than 2\/3 of the pond surface is covered by plants &#8211; that&#8217;s too much &#8211; and may lead to problems with the oxygen level in the pond.  Anyone want some free plants?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything in the pond is growing out of control! The mint that grows along the rock edge is spilling over and sending roots into the pond. The water lettuce and hyacinths that we bought in early May are reproducing at a frightening rate. We bought three of each and must have at least 50 of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Too much of a good thing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}