{"id":28234,"date":"2019-04-02T13:42:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28234"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:45:17","slug":"hardening-off-our-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28234","title":{"rendered":"Hardening off our beans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the weekend we have been hardening off our broad beans and runner beans. We are putting them outside on the patio table, by the back door, during the day and bringing them back inside at night.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28253\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=28253\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28253\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28253\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/beans-hardening-off.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/beans-hardening-off.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/beans-hardening-off-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/beans-hardening-off-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beans hardening off<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The runner beans and dwarf beans have really started to grow and are catching up with the broad beans.<\/p>\n<p>We plan on meeting up with the rest of the group at the allotment on Sunday and planting the potatoes as they are now ready to go in.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28256\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=28256\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28256\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28256\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28256\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/potatoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/potatoes.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/potatoes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/potatoes-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chitting potatoes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We will wait a bit longer before putting the beans in. We need to be fairly certain that there aren&#8217;t likely to be more frosts before they go in. We have had a bit of frost the last few mornings.<\/p>\n<p>We also need to get the net around the plot to protect anything we are planting. The raised beds have been filled with soil and are ready to go and putting the net up is the last job to be done other than planting.<\/p>\n<p>I will probably report back again after the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the weekend we have been hardening off our broad beans and runner beans. We are putting them outside on the patio table, by the back door, during the day and bringing them back inside at night. The runner beans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28234\">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\/28234"}],"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=28234"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28264,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28234\/revisions\/28264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}