{"id":10257,"date":"2015-02-27T17:28:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=10257"},"modified":"2015-02-27T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:28:35","slug":"more-gardening-for-the-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=10257","title":{"rendered":"More gardening for the girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a plant that we know as &#8220;mind your own business&#8221; growing alongside our front path. Every year at this time we cut it back as it encroaches on the path. My husband cuts it with kitchen scissors as it&#8217;s like a mat of root.<\/p>\n<p>We then give it to the girls to peck and scratch at. It had the added bonus of three worms of which Topaz got two and Sparkle the other one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10275\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/coming_to_inspect.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10275\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/coming_to_inspect.jpg\" alt=\"The girls take a look\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The girls take a look<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10276\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/we_need_a_closer_look.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10276\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/we_need_a_closer_look.jpg\" alt=\"They take a closer look\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They take a closer look<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10277\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/getting_stuck_in.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10277\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/getting_stuck_in.jpg\" alt=\"They get stuck in\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">They get stuck in<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An hour later I went back to check on them and they had broken it up and spread it around.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10278\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/spread_aroun.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10278\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10278\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/spread_aroun.jpg\" alt=\"Spread around\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spread around<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These girls are so easily pleased and this will keep them going for a few days yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a plant that we know as &#8220;mind your own business&#8221; growing alongside our front path. Every year at this time we cut it back as it encroaches on the path. My husband cuts it with kitchen scissors as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=10257\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10280,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions\/10280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}