{"id":3063,"date":"2015-02-21T17:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T05:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2015-02-21T17:54:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T05:54:41","slug":"the-laundry-garden-grows-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=3063","title":{"rendered":"The laundry garden grows bigger&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My self appointed job for the last two days while the kids have either been sleeping or at preschool has been to dig over the back area to make a garden now that the new laundry step is in place.  Stupid I know.  The ground here is so stony, but luckily the dry summer has made it OK to dig.  Although a dust mask might be a good idea, I have managed it all by myself without the help or instructions from the &#8216;boss&#8217; (apparently he has some type of man flu and is also too busy working from home).  <\/p>\n<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/laundrybefore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/laundrybefore.jpg\" alt=\"laundrybefore\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3087\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To put my digging into some sort of perspective in case the pic does not do it justice it&#8217;s about 4-4.5m by 1m wide  on one side of the step and then 1.5m by 1.5m on the other side.  You might say that&#8217;s not much&#8230;&#8230; Well then you are welcome to come and dig them many more bigger gardens we have to do.  Who said starting from scratch was fun! Not a bad effort so far from me if I do say so myself.  <\/p>\n<p>I even have a sore shoulder and butt cheek on my digging side. Now just to get out some more stones, take out a bit of dirt, put in some compost, plonk in the now obligatory irrigation pipe and sprinklers and then pick something to plant in there.  Then I will be happy with having completed another of the endless projects we have to do around the house. <\/p>\n<p>After all the hard prep work has been done, I finally got a little bit of help or shall we say interference from &#8216;the boss&#8217;, and so a week later the compost, irrigation and some plants have been added.  And that there completes my laundry garden!<\/p>\n<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/backgarden_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/backgarden_small.jpg\" alt=\"backgarden_small\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/backgarden_small.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/backgarden_small-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My self appointed job for the last two days while the kids have either been sleeping or at preschool has been to dig over the back area to make a garden now that the new laundry step is in place. Stupid I know. The ground here is so stony, but luckily the dry summer has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}