{"id":913,"date":"2011-03-29T06:28:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2011-03-29T06:28:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:28:17","slug":"the-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/29\/the-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"The patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<br \/>\nJust took some new pictures of the vegetable patch, post the &#8220;rat wars&#8221; that we have been experiencing here.\u00a0 This picture of our corn oddly shrouded and looking just a little like an aviary is part of our efforts to keep the little sods off our veg!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-914\" title=\"DSC05610\" src=\"http:\/\/jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05610.jpg\" alt=\"DSC05610\" width=\"452\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05610.jpg 2304w, https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05610-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05610-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><br \/>\nSo far so good, but they decimated our tomato crop, I think we got about ten tomatos and they got the rest, often just taking one bite then moving on to the next tomato for another single bite.\u00a0 Below is the new look tomato bed, its all peas, haricots, lettuce and little french breakfast radishes now with plans for purple sprouting brocali down the middle.\u00a0 Its really shot up too since I took this photo, the haricots are about 6 inches high and the peas are delightful little tufts of leaves ready to start climbing.\u00a0 We have since had to net it as well, this time to stop the birds digging up the peas and strewing them about for seemingly no reason.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-917\" title=\"DSC05614\" src=\"http:\/\/jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05614.jpg\" alt=\"DSC05614\" width=\"528\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05614.jpg 2580w, https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05614-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05614-768x627.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05614-1024x836.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-919\" title=\"DSC05617\" src=\"http:\/\/jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05617.jpg\" alt=\"DSC05617\" width=\"536\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05617.jpg 2236w, https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05617-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05617-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC05617-1024x754.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><br \/>\nYou can just make out the pile of old tomato in the pictures here, its forming very nice compost at least.\u00a0 We have learned a lot this year about the various perils of vegetable growing and will be ready for them next tomato season.\u00a0 Many people told us netting was no use against rats, so we didnt do it, I wish we had, we might have saved our tomato crop.\u00a0 It is still one of the most enjoyable things in the world to do though and I do love our new pea climber, even if nothing were to grow, I think its really very appealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Just took some new pictures of the vegetable patch, post the &#8220;rat wars&#8221; that we have been experiencing here.\u00a0 This picture of our corn oddly shrouded and looking just a little like an aviary is part of our efforts to keep the little sods off our veg! So far so good, but they decimated [&hellip;]<\/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-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamfancy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}