{"id":115827,"date":"2020-04-13T12:50:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=115827"},"modified":"2020-04-13T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T07:01:07","slug":"uh-seed-lab-home-garden-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/13\/uh-seed-lab-home-garden-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Need seeds? Check out the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Seed Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_115866\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115866\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/komohana.jpg\" alt=\"tomatoes\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/komohana.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/komohana-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/komohana-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Komohana tomatoes, one of the Seed Lab&#8217;s best sellers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many local residents are turning to home gardens due to of COVID-19 quarantine practices; however, it\u2019s not easy to find locally developed seeds for plants that perform well in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>\u2019s unique tropical conditions and are resistant to local pests and plant diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for professional growers and backyard enthusiasts, the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/a>\u2019 (<abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr>) <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Seed Laboratory provides a wide selection of vegetable and fruit seeds that have been bred and tested to grow well in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Lettuce, tomatoes, eggplants, supersweet corn and green onion are just a few of the varieties they have to offer. The seeds come in individual home garden packets for $1.50 each, and the lab ships them directly to home addresses.<\/p>\n<p>To order seeds, contact the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Seed Laboratory at <a href=\"mailto:seed@ctahr.hawaii.edu\">seed@ctahr.hawaii.edu<\/a> or call (808) 956-7890. Seeds that are currently available are on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/seed\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Seed Laboratory website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/NewsLetter\/need-seeds\">For more details, visit the <abbr>CTAHR<\/abbr> website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By <strong>Desmond Ogata<\/strong>, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Seed Laboratory, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources\">CTAHR<\/abbr>\u2019s seed laboratory is shipping seeds of local fruits and vegetables to help the community jump-start their own gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[222,212,1411,1416,9],"class_list":["post-115827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-agriculture","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115827"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115938,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115827\/revisions\/115938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}