{"id":22370,"date":"2017-08-25T06:07:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T06:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22370"},"modified":"2017-08-25T06:07:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T06:07:38","slug":"tweaking-the-veg-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22370","title":{"rendered":"Tweaking the veg plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our broad bean plants were finished and looked ugly but we didn&#8217;t want to remove them and leave the space empty. As soon as there is an empty space the neighbourhood cats use it as a toilet. In fact they often use our garden as a toilet, even when it is planted, but we don&#8217;t want to make it easy for them.<\/p>\n<p>On a trip to the garden centre we found a box of mixed salad leaves at a reasonable price. Even if they don&#8217;t come to much they could be given to the chickens.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22398\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22398\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22398\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22398\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spent_broad_beans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spent_broad_beans.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spent_broad_beans-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/spent_broad_beans-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spent broad bean plants looking rather ugly<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_22400\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22400\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22400\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22400\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/salad_leaves.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/salad_leaves.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/salad_leaves-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/salad_leaves-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I have planted a salad leaf patch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It looks a bit pathetic at the moment but it&#8217;s better than an empty space and better than the dead broad beans. I will update when they have grown a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our broad bean plants were finished and looked ugly but we didn&#8217;t want to remove them and leave the space empty. As soon as there is an empty space the neighbourhood cats use it as a toilet. In fact they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22370\">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\/22370"}],"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=22370"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22403,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22370\/revisions\/22403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}