{"id":31743,"date":"2020-09-06T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T10:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=31743"},"modified":"2020-09-06T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T10:15:01","slug":"wild-flowers-and-broccoli-stalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=31743","title":{"rendered":"Wild flowers and broccoli stalks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are still harvesting so much bounty from the allotment plots. I never expected the raspberries to produce for so long and we are all three sharers still picking them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plot below us was dug over at the beginning of the year and then abandoned. It hasn&#8217;t been fenced. Our wild flower seeds from our plot have seeded a huge swaithe of purple flowers on the empty plot. I decided to help myself to some and shared them with our next door neighbour too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/allotment-wild-flowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/allotment-wild-flowers.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/allotment-wild-flowers-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/allotment-wild-flowers-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Allotment wild flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We have just had a letter saying that our first plot has won &#8220;best plot&#8221; for the second year running. We were really surprised to win it again and very happy with that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With chickens nothing gets wasted. We gave the girls two of the spent broccoli stalks yesterday. They kept the girls occupied all day and by the end of the day the stalks were pecked clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/broccoli-stalks-for-the-girls.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/broccoli-stalks-for-the-girls.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/broccoli-stalks-for-the-girls-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/broccoli-stalks-for-the-girls-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Broccoli stalks for the girls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/the-girls-pecking-at-the-leaves.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/the-girls-pecking-at-the-leaves.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/the-girls-pecking-at-the-leaves-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/the-girls-pecking-at-the-leaves-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>The girls pecking at the broccoli leaves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/At-the-end-of-the-day-the-stalks-are-pecked-clean.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/At-the-end-of-the-day-the-stalks-are-pecked-clean.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/At-the-end-of-the-day-the-stalks-are-pecked-clean-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/At-the-end-of-the-day-the-stalks-are-pecked-clean-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>At the end of the day the stalks are pecked clean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With chickens nothing gets wasted and not only am I not buying any veg for us but I am also not buying any greens for the girls. There is plenty for the girls to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are still harvesting so much bounty from the allotment plots. I never expected the raspberries to produce for so long and we are all three sharers still picking them. The plot below us was dug over at the beginning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=31743\">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\/31743"}],"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=31743"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31770,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743\/revisions\/31770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}