{"id":2240,"date":"2011-04-08T16:20:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T21:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2015-05-18T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:40:09","slug":"gardeners-diary-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=2240","title":{"rendered":"Gardener&#8217;s Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pace is stepping up a little now.<\/p><p>Spent most of the morning working with Jim Robertson at Highfield. Pruned 6 hydrangeas which had been planted 3 years ago but haven&#8217;t been touched since. Jim did 6 as well and edged along the beds. He&#8217;s a terrific work mate.<\/p><p>Wandered inside to see the quilt exhibit: magnificent. Ron would like to make a quilt with some of his tee shirts.<\/p><p>At the transfer station, picked up a nice discarded tub with handles, perfect for the potato garden. Disinfected it and planted six potato pieces, which have been hardening for a day in the kitchen window sill.<\/p><p>It appears that the transfer station is on the migratory path for some very friendly flamingos!<\/p><p>Also planted the tomato and petunia seeds in the cold frame.<\/p><p>On the way back from Highfield, I &#8220;discovered&#8221; Service Road in Falmouth, which has some beautiful properties.<\/p><p>Had a good PT session with Andy Enea. He&#8217;s set me up for 3 sessions a week between now and the trip, to try to get my legs conditioned.<\/p><p>Fluffles got his first application of Advantage for the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pace is stepping up a little now.Spent most of the morning working with Jim Robertson at Highfield. Pruned 6 hydrangeas which had been planted 3 years ago but haven&#8217;t been touched since. Jim did 6 as well and edged along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=2240\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8594,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/8594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}