{"id":104907,"date":"2025-05-29T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/05\/29\/more-compost-might-not-be-what-garden-soil-needs\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-05-29T05:04:54","modified_gmt":"2027-11-15T05:04:54","slug":"more-compost-might-not-be-what-garden-soil-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/05\/29\/more-compost-might-not-be-what-garden-soil-needs\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"More Compost Might Not Be What Garden Soil Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With spring arriving, gardeners  are preparing soils for this year\u2019s planting, and many love to apply compost, which can supply nutrients, feed microbial activity, help retain soil moisture and improve soil structure.<br \/>\n\t  However, there can be too much of a good thing, according  to Clain Jones, Montana State University Extension soil fertility specialist and professor in the MSU Department  of Land<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104975,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104907\/revisions\/104975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104907"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=104907"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=104907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}