{"id":3523,"date":"2019-08-18T21:29:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T01:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2019-08-18T21:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T01:34:43","slug":"a-garden-that-is-weed-free-almost-and-easy-to-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3523","title":{"rendered":"A GARDEN THAT IS WEED FREE, ALMOST…AND EASY TO PICK."},"content":{"rendered":"
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WEEDS TAKE OVER OUR GARDEN  EVERY YEAR BUT THIS YEAR!<\/div>\n

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\u201cAlan, your hamstrung injury will make gardening impossible.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDo you think so?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYou could not even pick up that toonie you dropped at the parking meter.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSo?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSo, forget about gardening this  year\u2026weeds usually take over<\/div>\n
any way.  You are not the best weeder in the world even in perfect<\/div>\n
shape.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSo, forget about the garden.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNot so fast\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cUse your head, do not waste time on the garden.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe have those water old troughs with holes  in them\u2026and big<\/div>\n
plastic pots for garbage\u2026All are now filled with topsoil and thriving.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u2018No need  to bend over\u2026tomatoes,  cucumbers,  dill, beans, <\/div>\n
potatoes, lettuce, even  watermelons at our finger tips with <\/div>\n
no bending.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cMaybe you are not as stupid  as you look.\u201d?<\/div>\n
\u201cFlattery will get you everywhere, Marjorie\u2026have an onion.”<\/div>\n

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THOSE of you with good  eyes will notice another facet of our 2019 garden.<\/div>\n
What?  The skids\u2026ever pot, trough, container sits  on skid so we can use<\/div>\n
the bob cat to move the garden away from the weeds\u2026or put it in a<\/div>\n
better position for the sun.  No labour.<\/div>\n

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In normal  years, by mid August, our garden has been lost as the weeds below win the race for the sun. This year we have won.<\/div>\n

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WEEDS TAKE OVER OUR GARDEN  EVERY YEAR BUT THIS YEAR! \u201cAlan, your hamstrung injury will make gardening impossible.\u201d \u201cDo you think so?\u201d \u201cYou could not even pick up that toonie you dropped at the parking meter.\u201d \u201cSo?\u201d \u201cSo, forget about gardening this  year\u2026weeds usually take over any way.  You are not the best weeder in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}