{"id":42,"date":"2006-12-08T00:10:30","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T12:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=42"},"modified":"2006-12-08T00:10:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T12:10:30","slug":"garden-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Garden Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago we finished putting down weed mat around the vegetable beds on the eastern side of the house. The beds are not all completely planted yet, but we are getting there! Considering that when we got here that area was heavy clay soil covered in rampant kikuyu grass<\/a>, we are feeling pleased with the progress we have made. Now that spring is well underway, the vegetable plants are growing into a mass of green, and the peas, tomatoes, beans, linseed, squashes and strawberries are flowering and starting to set fruit. We are certainly enjoying a much better view from our kitchen window than we did during winter, when the whole area was covered in black polythene!<\/p>\n

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\nOur garden unfurls in the light of Spring<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nBecky moves a squash vine out of the walkway<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nPainted lady runner bean flowers<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nDalmatian pea<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The next area of garden to be developed is to the north of the house. We do not anticipate finishing work on that area this year. We have made some vegetable beds there already, but will need to spend some time extending and improving them next spring. Our plans for that area of the yard include more olive trees along the fence line, and various kinds of berries and small fruit on the slope between the vegetable gardens and the house. We’ll see whether we end up sticking to these plans or not. There are some big chunks of sandstone lurking beneath the lawn<\/a> in that part of the yard that might cause us to modify our plans considerably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago we finished putting down weed mat around the vegetable beds on the eastern side of the house. The beds are not all completely planted yet, but we are getting there! Considering that when we got here that area was heavy clay soil covered in rampant kikuyu grass, we are feeling pleased […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}