{"id":133242,"date":"2021-12-29T09:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/red-creeping-thyme-the-beautiful-pink-lawn-you-never-have-to-mow-water-or-weed"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T17:22:45","slug":"red-creeping-thyme-the-beautiful-pink-lawn-you-never-have-to-mow-water-or-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/red-creeping-thyme-the-beautiful-pink-lawn-you-never-have-to-mow-water-or-weed","title":{"rendered":"Red Creeping Thyme: The Beautiful Pink Lawn You Never Have to Mow, Water or Weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/red-creeping-thyme-the-beautiful-pink-lawn-you-never-have-to-mow-water-or-weed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawns are becoming less and less popular these days. Besides being high-maintenance, they are terrible for the environment. The mono-crop grasses require lots of watering, fertilizing and \u201cherbiciding.\u201d With mounting water shortages around the world, should we really be dumping clean water on non-edible grass?<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, people are looking for alternatives. Some are planting edible gardens, some are planting prairie grasses and flowers for pollinators, and some are planting eco-friendly clover lawns, for a look and feel more similar to a regular lawn.<\/p>\n<p>And now we\u2019ve found another alternative \u2014 creeping red thyme. Like clover, the fast-growing cover crop can take over your whole lawn like a carpet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawns are becoming less and less popular these days. Besides being high-maintenance, they are terrible for the environment. The mono-crop grasses require lots of watering, fertilizing and \u201cherbiciding.\u201d With mounting water shortages around the world, should we really be dumping clean water on non-edible grass? Naturally, people are looking for alternatives. Some are planting edible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}