{"id":21301,"date":"2025-10-14T14:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21301"},"modified":"2025-10-18T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:57:09","slug":"daily_3878_-_lunch_break_gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/10\/14\/daily_3878_-_lunch_break_gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3878 – lunch break gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s more or less dark when the working day is over. Plain old digging can be done in lamplight at a pinch, but planting requires daylight, so I took a gardening break in the middle of my work-from-home day today.<\/p>\n

I had put some Aquilegias at the front of the new planting, but the deer ate them within a week or so. I’ve now moved them to the slope on the other side of the garage, where I think the deer are unlikely to go, and put other stuff here.<\/p>\n

It struck me today that my choice of plants is heavily skewed towards the beginning of the alphabet, because the garden centre at Ulriksdal arranges their plants alphabetically within each section, and A is closest to the entrance. In place of the Aquilegias I have Astrantias and Asters. Next time I need to select plants, I’m going to walk all the way to the far end and start at Z.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s more or less dark when the working day is over. Plain old digging can be done in lamplight at a pinch, but planting requires daylight, so I took a gardening break in the middle of my work-from-home day today. I had put some Aquilegias at the front of the new planting, but the deer […]<\/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-21301","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\/21301","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=21301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21302,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21301\/revisions\/21302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}