{"id":665,"date":"2008-04-09T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2008-04-09T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T13:46:10","slug":"665","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/665\/","title":{"rendered":"The Allotment Looks More Like an Allotment!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/AllotmentApr52008.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a>Toward the end of last week and before this weekend&#8217;s weird spring\/winter\/spring weather, we spent a productive half-day working on the allotment. As the photograph shows, it&#8217;s looking more like an allotment every day!<\/p>\n<p>We planted three rows of potatoes in the far top bed on the left. One early and two lates. It&#8217;s not easily seen but we also planted two rows of lavenders on the far and near long sides of the plot. <\/p>\n<p>The bed in the middle now has a cane wigwam structure thingee so that we can plant runner beans in a week or so.<\/p>\n<p>Rhubarb was planted in the far bed on the right but we won&#8217;t be able to crop it until next year. Some black plastic was put down to help kill off the weeds. It also has three Rosemary plants.<\/p>\n<p>We started a new, long rectangular bed by laying out and weighing down with sods a black plastic weed barrier. In a couple of week&#8217;s time we may be able to lift the plastic and start to prepare the plot for planting.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it&#8217;s off to the supermarket to buy some veg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toward the end of last week and before this weekend&#8217;s weird spring\/winter\/spring weather, we spent a productive half-day working on the allotment. As the photograph shows, it&#8217;s looking more like an allotment every day! We planted three rows of potatoes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/665\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","category-the-grumpy-vegan-life","tag-fernback-allotment-hastings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}