{"id":14545,"date":"2021-05-10T22:13:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T21:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14545"},"modified":"2021-05-10T22:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T21:13:01","slug":"daily_2307_-_theyre_digging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/05\/10\/daily_2307_-_theyre_digging\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2307 &#8211; they&#8217;re digging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2307_digger.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nTwo years ago we had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/03\/20\/daily_1544_-_pipes\/\">replace the incoming water pipe<\/a>. The trench for the pipe went through both the retaining walls on that side of the garden, leaving ugly gaps in them.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently (or so the builders told us) it&#8217;s not a good idea to build a wall on top of soil that has been newly dug up to such a depth, because the soil needs time to settle and compact properly. In these climes you ideally want to wait out at least one solid freeze-and-thaw cycle, to ensure that you don&#8217;t end up with a wall that gets deformed by shifting soil.<\/p>\n<p>Last year there was no proper winter. So then we waited another year. For two years now we&#8217;ve had to live with broken retaining walls in that part of the garden. Luckily this winter we had some actual winter. And if this had been another crappy winter we would have gone ahead anyway. I am so fed up with looking at a broken wall.<\/p>\n<p>Today the builders finally came to start working on the walls. This will be so great! I can start planting things above the upper wall, next to the house! And I can replace the ground cover plants around the hedge, because I know the ground won&#8217;t be dug up yet again. Hopefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago we had to replace the incoming water pipe. The trench for the pipe went through both the retaining walls on that side of the garden, leaving ugly gaps in them. Apparently (or so the builders told us) it&#8217;s not a good idea to build a wall on top of soil that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14547,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions\/14547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}