{"id":81,"date":"2016-06-24T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=81"},"modified":"2016-06-24T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T15:07:28","slug":"stinking-water-in-water-garden-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/stinking-water-in-water-garden-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Stinking Water In Water Barrel Garden."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\">Question<\/a><br \/>\nThe water in my new water barrel garden has gone stale and stinks.How can I stop this?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\">Answer<\/a><br \/>\nThe ideal situation is to achieve a balance in the barrel by adding more plants such as the oxygenating plant canadian pond weed.In a new barrel water garden achieving this balance can take some time often taking a full spring.So the instant solution is to add some potassium permanganate crystals,just mix them into the water until it starts to turn purple; this should be enough.This will make the water relatively sterile,preventing the smell.<br \/> For More information <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/freeadvice\/index.html\"> click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question The water in my new water barrel garden has gone stale and stinks.How can I stop this? Answer The ideal situation is to achieve a balance in the barrel by adding more plants&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}