{"id":7032,"date":"2016-06-03T09:40:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7032"},"modified":"2016-06-03T09:41:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:41:02","slug":"gardening-goes-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/gardening-goes-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening goes slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160601_184348-1024-299x166.jpg\" alt=\"20160601_184348-1024\" width=\"299\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160601_184348-1024-299x166.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160601_184348-1024-150x83.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160601_184348-1024-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160601_184348-1024-1023x569.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/20160601_184348-1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the last week now, we have been dismantling our old fencing around veg beds 4&#038;5.  This whole garden started small and every year got bigger and bigger, hence it is a hodgepodge or construction techniques, material and in any event is now all overgrown.<br \/>\nMostly it is chicken wire 3&#8242; high designed to keep out rabbits.  That worked fairly well.. but they still got inside from time to time.<br \/>\nMaybe they rode on the backs of the deer that kept jumping over 3&#8217;fence.<br \/>\nThen we added 4&#8243;x4&#8243;x8&#8242; posts set in cement and cement deck blocks, with Lee Valley deer fencing 7&#8242; high around the perimeter.  Hmm&#8230; The deer still seemed to get inside\/through\/past that.  The winter was never really kind to that nylon fencing either.  We generally had to replace a section from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Now is the chain link fence, 5&#8242; high for now, possibly extended high later.  We hope to get the deconstruction completed this weekend and start in on the construction part next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last week now, we have been dismantling our old fencing around veg beds 4&#038;5. This whole garden started small and every year got bigger and bigger, hence it is a hodgepodge or construction techniques, material and in any event is now all overgrown. Mostly it is chicken wire 3&#8242; high designed to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7036,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions\/7036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}