{"id":18867,"date":"2019-07-12T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18867"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:24:10","slug":"winter-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/winter-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can gardeners do in winter? The answer lies in the soil! but to old gardeners it is still<strong> &#8216;Beyond our Ken&#8217;. <\/strong>I often spent too long polishing my good intentions this includes planning to send my mower for servicing and sharpening&#8217; a shame I do not plan to polish up my other important gardening implements.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19897\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wake-up-015-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wake-up-015-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wake-up-015-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wake-up-015-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wake-up-015-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Winter Preparations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In the spirit of new years resolutions you would expect my garage and shed to be perfect models of tidiness and order<\/li>\n<li>Winter prune trees and plan other tree work. Get an arboriculturalist to do the hard and technical work<\/li>\n<li>Clear the garage, garden shed and store areas. I have a glory hole where an old coal hole was under some outside stairs. It should be renamed gory hole as the stairs now allow water to penetrate.<\/li>\n<li>I still store pots by the score together with sundry bulk items I may or probably wont use again.<\/li>\n<li>Use the opportunity for testing my good ideas, bodges and purloined ideas from other gardeners<\/li>\n<li>Store garden furniture and frostable item.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sorry about this post but I have just been clearing out some old drafts &#8211; now back into the garden.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can gardeners do in winter? The answer lies in the soil! but to old gardeners it is still &#8216;Beyond our Ken&#8217;. I often spent too long polishing my good intentions this includes planning to send my mower for servicing and sharpening&#8217; a shame I do not plan to polish up my other important gardening implements. Winter Preparations In the spirit of new years resolutions you would expect my garage and shed to be perfect models of tidiness and order&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/winter-gardening\/\"> 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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867","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=18867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20082,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867\/revisions\/20082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}