{"id":127,"date":"2008-01-10T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T11:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/files\/archives\/127"},"modified":"2011-01-09T15:06:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T15:06:07","slug":"digging-in-the-dirt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/digging-in-the-dirt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging in the Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I went to the plot at the weekend to carry on with the digging. I have done most of the plot and it is doing fine, but there was the extra bit to do this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>After all the rain we&#8217;ve had over xmas it was hard going as the soil retains a lot of water and I only have little legs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/lot-081.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/lot-081.jpg\" alt=\"dig - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As you can see I got to most of it by the end of the day and spread the last of the hops and manure on it. I dug some of it in as well, so don&#8217;t worry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/lot-082.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/lot-082.jpg\" alt=\"dig - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just to show you what you can do when you have the time, here is a picture of a nearby plot. This person is retired and spends a lot of time at their plot. I wish I had the time, but I don&#8217;t fancy retirement just yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/lot-083.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/lot-083.jpg\" alt=\"tidy plot - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I then checked on my sprouts. Where they have grown above the netting the birds have been at them and stripped them bare &#8211; I hope the leaves make them poo through the eye of a needle!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/lot-084.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/lot-084.jpg\" alt=\"sprout tops - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the plot at the weekend to carry on with the digging. I have done most of the plot and it is doing fine, but there was the extra bit to do this year. After all the rain we&#8217;ve had over xmas it was hard going as the soil retains a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"views":308,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}