{"id":6149,"date":"2026-07-25T19:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:11:05","slug":"shallot-braids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=6149","title":{"rendered":"Shallot Braids"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"948\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-5.jpg?resize=695%2C948&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6157\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-5-scaled.jpg?resize=751%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 751w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-5-scaled.jpg?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-5-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1048&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-5-scaled.jpg?resize=1126%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1126w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-5-scaled.jpg?resize=1501%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1501w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-5-scaled.jpg?resize=1100%2C1500&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-5-scaled.jpg?w=1877&amp;ssl=1 1877w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-5-scaled.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <em>Shallots, lavender and mint<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I braided some of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=6054\">shallots<\/a> today, and added a few strawflowers from last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=5385\">garlic braid<\/a>. This year\u2019s strawflowers are not quite ready yet. I am so excited to have them hanging in my pantry with the drying herbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-4.jpg?resize=695%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6156\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-4.jpg?resize=1024%2C629&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-4.jpg?resize=300%2C184&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-4.jpg?resize=768%2C472&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-4.jpg?resize=1536%2C944&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-4.jpg?resize=1100%2C676&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-4.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/shallots-07_24_2026-4.jpg?w=1390&amp;ssl=1 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Plenty of room for more herbs \u2026.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I braided some of my shallots today, and added a few strawflowers from last year\u2019s garlic braid. This year\u2019s strawflowers are not quite ready yet. I am so excited to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,30,32,53,51,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-harvest","category-herbs","category-medicinal","category-preserving","category-summer","category-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1Bb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6164,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}