{"id":6487,"date":"2010-03-11T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2010-03-11T05:12:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:12:12","slug":"home-made-plant-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/home-made-plant-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Made Plant Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bottle Glass House \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4419984104\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2703\/4419984104_2117b14583.jpg\" alt=\"Bottle Glass House\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This &#8216;double glazing for plants&#8217; is getting these early onions off to a good start at the beginning of March.<\/p>\n<p>Each plant has its own baseless pop bottle for individual cover. Then there is the glass sheet that will keep off the snow and the sink sides to keep out some frost. Intensive care for plants that can be treated as individuals may be worth the effort when our local vegetable show comes around (no wonder I have lost to this neighbour before.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Winter Protection \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4419977836\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2779\/4419977836_003a7289c5.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Protection\" width=\"500\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is another of the local money free protection schemes where the Leeks are grown in lengths of drain pipe. I guess this helps with blanching\u00c2\u00a0 but more importantly extends the cropping season. Talking of Leeks, yesterday I bought some seed of <strong>Swiss Giant Zermatt<\/strong> to pick from July as baby leeks and some <strong>Blue Green Autumn Neptune<\/strong> for resistance to Leek rust disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This &#8216;double glazing for plants&#8217; is getting these early onions off to a good start at the beginning of March. Each plant has its own baseless pop bottle for individual cover. Then there is the glass sheet that will keep off the snow and the sink sides to keep out some frost. Intensive care for plants that can be treated as individuals may be worth the effort when our local vegetable show comes around (no wonder I have lost to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/home-made-plant-protection\/\"> 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":[18,176,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs","category-garden-equipment-tips","category-pests-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","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=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}