{"id":1598,"date":"2024-03-10T21:29:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T21:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2024-03-10T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T21:31:10","slug":"country-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2024\/03\/10\/country-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Country House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s March, and that means there&#8217;s far too much stuff to do in the garden.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Beans bursting out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/53578703537\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53578703537_11f42a2747_z.jpg\" alt=\"Beans bursting out\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bean love<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few years ago we went to a PYO and got a pumpkin (or 12, whatever). It was a Blue Hubbard, and we saved the seeds and sowed them the next year.<\/p>\n<p>We got a bit of a sport from that that mother, cute in a blue-ish, wonky sort of way, and my daughters for whatever reason named it &#8216;Ken&#8217;. The family chat group, somewhat inevitably, was renamed &#8216;The Ken Fan Club&#8217;. Over the years the chat has been renamed &#8216;Son of Ken fan club&#8217;, and of course &#8216;Ken III fan club&#8221; as we (mostly Jenny, to be honest) have saved and vernalized seeds from each subsequent generation.<\/p>\n<p>Today I sowed some Ken III seeds and we hope that this season we will welcome Ken IV (and turn him and his siblings into pumpkin pie, but let&#8217;s not talk about that yet).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Ken and friends\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/53578703617\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53578703617_2243253a34_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ken and friends\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">They look small now&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also sowed sweetcorn and mange tout and peas and while that doesn&#8217;t take up much space<em> at the moment<\/em>, we&#8217;re going to have to pot them on at some point.<\/p>\n<p>But as Jenny said of the 34 sweetcorn pots, \u201cWe\u2019ll worry about where to put them later\u201d.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/53580012445\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53580012445_42521bed97_z.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet. Corn.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I remember when this was all fields.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s March, and that means there&#8217;s far too much stuff to do in the garden. A few years ago we went to a PYO and got a pumpkin (or 12, whatever). It was a Blue Hubbard, and we saved the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2024\/03\/10\/country-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","tag-15minutepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}