{"id":32,"date":"2007-04-29T19:49:47","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T18:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/files\/archives\/32"},"modified":"2010-04-06T23:38:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T22:38:38","slug":"netting-and-protecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/netting-and-protecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Netting and Protecting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These two pictures really give you a contrast with the recent bit of the plot that was rotavated. It doesn&#8217;t seem to have bothered the plants.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smg.photobucket.com\/albums\/v634\/jull99\/buds\/IMG_2735.jpg\" width=\"75%\" height=\"75%\" alt=\"strawbs\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you can see that I have put collars round the strawberries to stop slugs and also to keep them clean when it rains. Yes, that might not happen for a while if they are right about global warming, but you have to try. This is the first year I have really bothered with strawberries, so we will see how well they turn out. <\/p>\n<p>Below is a better picture of the netting over the cabbage. It&#8217;s a good way to keep the birds off your plants. Of course the slugs still make for it, but the netting gives them a headache. I found a few slug trails on the netting and a few dead ones boiled in the sun. They had left trails as though they went round in circles until they gave up the ghost and just died.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smg.photobucket.com\/albums\/v634\/jull99\/buds\/IMG_2597.jpg\" width=\"75%\" height=\"75%\" alt=\"netting\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You can also see how I improvised the hoops with wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two pictures really give you a contrast with the recent bit of the plot that was rotavated. It doesn&#8217;t seem to have bothered the plants. Anyway, you can see that I have put collars round the strawberries to stop slugs and also to keep them clean when it rains. Yes, that might not happen [&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-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"views":347,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}