{"id":15,"date":"2011-02-15T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-03-28T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:08:24","slug":"15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Our new gardening column – introducing Silas Silage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Silas Silage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Spring is a-comin\u2019 in, writes Silas Silage, our very own gardening expert, who believes planning is the key to gardening success.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the evenings lengthening and old cock robin a\u2019 busy in the hedgerows while Mr Worm starts his perennial task of digging out from his hibernation hideaway, spring is in the air and\u00a0 it\u2019s time to think about the garden. The edge of the lawn is a carpet of snowdrops and bluebells, and the crocuses and daffodils delight the eye, waving in the gentle spring breeze while aloft, tits, pigeons and song thrushes start their mating rituals. <\/strong>(Get on with it \u2013Ed)<\/em><\/p>\n

There are so many things to do in the garden at this time of year, so\u00a0I always starts with a list.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0go down to the shed and unlock it after the long winter, teasing the hinges with a drop of 3 in-one.<\/p>\n

Then\u00a0I sits down in the old armchair, roll a cigarette of Old Shagger\u2019s Knotweed Vanilla Gold, pour a measure of sloe gin and gets out me notepad.<\/p>\n

First on the list is a pencil sharpener, and a new pencil too for good measure. This one is down to the last\u2026\u2026..
\n(To be continued \u2013 Ed)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Spring is a-comin\u2019 in, writes Silas Silage, our very own gardening expert, who believes planning is the key to gardening success. With the evenings lengthening and old cock robin a\u2019 busy in the hedgerows while Mr Worm starts his perennial task of digging out from his hibernation hideaway, spring is in the air and\u00a0 it\u2019s … Continue reading “Our new gardening column – introducing Silas Silage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[794,2757,2768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-news","category-silas-silage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6glYD-15","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}