{"id":23195,"date":"2017-10-27T22:53:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T22:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=23195"},"modified":"2017-10-27T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T22:53:23","slug":"getting-the-veg-plot-ready-for-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=23195","title":{"rendered":"Getting the veg plot ready for winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing left on our veg plot was the courgette plants. They still each had five or six tiny courgettes but they hadn&#8217;t grown in the last few weeks so we decided that they were finished.<\/p>\n<p>Everything else was already finished but we had left the plants in as we knew that as soon as we removed them the cats would move in and use the veg plot as their toilet.<\/p>\n<p>It was time to clear the plot. My husband removed the spent plants and lightly raked the plot.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon we went to our local woods and collected twigs. As luck would have it a tree was down and there were lots of twigs laying around it. We collected quite a haul.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23206\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23206\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23206\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23206\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23206\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/we-have-collected-twigs-and-started-planting-them-on-the-veg-plot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/we-have-collected-twigs-and-started-planting-them-on-the-veg-plot.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/we-have-collected-twigs-and-started-planting-them-on-the-veg-plot-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/we-have-collected-twigs-and-started-planting-them-on-the-veg-plot-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We have collected twigs and started to plant the veg plot<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_23207\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23207\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23207\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23207\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23207\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/the-completed-veg-plot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/the-completed-veg-plot.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/the-completed-veg-plot-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/the-completed-veg-plot-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The completed veg plot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last year was the first year that we tried this and it worked quite well. It keeps the cats off and we think it looks okay, sort of rustic, and better than being just empty. It will stay like this now until the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing left on our veg plot was the courgette plants. They still each had five or six tiny courgettes but they hadn&#8217;t grown in the last few weeks so we decided that they were finished. Everything else was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=23195\">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\/23195"}],"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=23195"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23212,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23195\/revisions\/23212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}