{"id":8501,"date":"2016-09-20T03:01:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T02:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8501"},"modified":"2016-09-03T08:46:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T07:46:54","slug":"gardening-consequences-of-a-long-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/gardening-consequences-of-a-long-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening Consequences of a long Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3717510566\/sizes\/m\/in\/set-72157620230007113\/\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<a title=\"botanics by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3717510566\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2627\/3717510566_19516170e2.jpg\" alt=\"botanics\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will I learn from my 4 week holiday traveling Europe by train? Probably not but I can list some of the gardening events that need to be considered next time I take off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short Flowering Season<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dahlias were just coming into full bloom as I left for my holiday. I had carefully prepared the ground this year with extra helpings of horse manure as I know Dahlias are heavy feeders, a bit like the horses themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Without the deadheading, that I would have done, they now look well past there best and are running to seed. Never the less I have cut them back quite hard in some cases and if we get a frost free autumn I may get a subsequent flush of flowers.<\/li>\n<li>Most flowers are genetically programmed to produce seed to continue the species and when this is done the energy for flower production goes into seed production and winter survival.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Friends and Neighbors <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My greenhouse had been well tended in return for a supply of tomatoes. The Gardeners Delight cropped well and were sweet and juicy but the cool weather in early September\u00c2\u00a0 has slowed the ripening of the larger varieties.<\/li>\n<li>I ordered some plug plants, long enough ago to have forgotten, for delivery late September.\u00c2\u00a0 As you would expect they arrived in August just after I had left. Fortunately they were noticed on my doorstep and taken in by a sensible friend who has saved my 150 or so plants.<\/li>\n<li>The kids came and looked at the house and watered the houseplants once each, two days apart! So no water for 3+ weeks than a double dose.<\/li>\n<li>I was willing to sacrifice my pot plants but unrequested watering by another friend has prolonged the begonia flowering and they look a treat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Internet Gardeners Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before leaving I preplanned a series of web page postings &#8211; you can predate your pages. Sorry I didn&#8217;t manage to cover the whole period but only a week has gone by with nothing.<\/li>\n<li>I now need to get some autumn photographs to help illustrate the next batch of Gardeners tips pages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will I learn from my 4 week holiday traveling Europe by train? Probably not but I can list some of the gardening events that need to be considered next time I take off. Short Flowering Season Dahlias were just coming into full bloom as I left for my holiday. I had carefully prepared the ground this year with extra helpings of horse manure as I know Dahlias are heavy feeders, a bit like the horses themselves. Without the deadheading, that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/gardening-consequences-of-a-long-holiday\/\"> 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-8501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501","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=8501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}