{"id":10173,"date":"2016-05-02T04:24:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T11:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2019-01-30T19:49:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T19:49:51","slug":"happy-gardening-with-adam-the-gardener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/happy-gardening-with-adam-the-gardener\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Gardening With Adam the Gardener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0701184345\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0701184345.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A happy and pleasant surprise has just arrived through the post at home.<\/p>\n<p>I commented some time ago about <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/famous-celebrity-gardeners\/\">celebrity gardeners<\/a> and<strong> Adam the Gardener<\/strong> in particular. Adam featured in a pictorial guide each week in the Daily Express from the 1940&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 The tips and advice helped many experienced gardeners and those new to gardening.<\/p>\n<p>The clever publishers at Chatto &amp; Windus have reproduced the 1940&#8217;s classic in a revival of the old tips and advice and they kindly sent me a copy.<\/p>\n<p>I recommended the book earlier and am pleased to do so again &#8211; it is available now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0701184345\/richardpettin-21\">from Amazon.<\/a> At \u00c2\u00a310 it is a great price for a hardback containing so many words of gardening wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>It would also make a good nostalgic fathers day present.<\/p>\n<p>As they say a picture saves a thousand words. The\u00c2\u00a0 strip format\u00c2\u00a0 of Adam the Gardener allows time for more gardening than reading.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A tip from Adam<\/strong> if you have an accidentally allowed a pot plant to get frost damaged. &#8216;Soak the soil in the coldest water you can get. Sprinkle the foliage with the same cold water. Put the plant in a frost proof shed. It should revive in a couple of hours. Only when unmistakable recovery has been made move it into warmth. Don&#8217;t cut off withered parts until a week after this treatment.&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>That way I hope you can recover from frosting accidents &#8211; I recon it will still be frosty at night for most of May the way our weather is right now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A happy and pleasant surprise has just arrived through the post at home. I commented some time ago about celebrity gardeners and Adam the Gardener in particular. Adam featured in a pictorial guide each week in the Daily Express from the 1940&#8217;s.\u00c2\u00a0 The tips and advice helped many experienced gardeners and those new to gardening. The clever publishers at Chatto &amp; Windus have reproduced the 1940&#8217;s classic in a revival of the old tips and advice and they kindly sent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/happy-gardening-with-adam-the-gardener\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19868,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions\/19868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}