{"id":22648,"date":"2017-09-17T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22648"},"modified":"2017-09-17T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T06:40:00","slug":"home-grown-lettuce-for-the-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22648","title":{"rendered":"Home grown lettuce for the girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to give the girls a lettuce from our mixed leaves patch in the veg plot. The girls are used to having spinach leaves and spring green leaves so I was surprised to see that they viewed the lettuce with some caution at first.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22664\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22664\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22664\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22664\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/speckles_calls_the_little_girls_to_the_lettuce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/speckles_calls_the_little_girls_to_the_lettuce.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/speckles_calls_the_little_girls_to_the_lettuce-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/speckles_calls_the_little_girls_to_the_lettuce-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speckles called the little girls to the lettuce<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As usual Freckles and Rusty are first to investigate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22665\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22665\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22665\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22665\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/emerald_joins_in.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/emerald_joins_in.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/emerald_joins_in-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/emerald_joins_in-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald joined in<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cinnamon is having a peck at the lettuce.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22666\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22666\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22666\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22666\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/apricot_investigates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/apricot_investigates.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/apricot_investigates-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/apricot_investigates-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apricot investigates<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Eventually they realised it was just a different shaped type of green and all greens are good.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22669\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22669\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22669\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22669\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22669\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/not_much_left_by_the_afternoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/not_much_left_by_the_afternoon.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/not_much_left_by_the_afternoon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/not_much_left_by_the_afternoon-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By the afternoon there wasn&#8217;t much left of the lettuce<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_22670\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=22670\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22670\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22670\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/freckles_has_a_last_peck_at_the_stalk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/freckles_has_a_last_peck_at_the_stalk.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/freckles_has_a_last_peck_at_the_stalk-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/freckles_has_a_last_peck_at_the_stalk-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freckles has a last peck at the stalk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think I can safely say they enjoyed our home grown lettuce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to give the girls a lettuce from our mixed leaves patch in the veg plot. 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