{"id":20325,"date":"2018-12-03T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=20325"},"modified":"2018-12-03T11:01:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T10:01:22","slug":"digging-for-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=20325","title":{"rendered":"Digging for victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9dajv\" data-offset-key=\"8pvdb-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8pvdb-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8pvdb-0-0\">I&#8217;ve been following and supporting the discussions that we need to Dig for Victory against climate change as though we were in a war&#8230;.this is the progress so far! No, I shouldn&#8217;t joke :(<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9dajv\" data-offset-key=\"46db2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"46db2-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"46db2-0-0\">The first two pictures shows progress digging a trench along the driveway. 30 years ago, I dug by hand the length of the driveway and filled in with stones and gravel as the previous owners hadn&#8217;t wanted a car into the house and it was just a pathway with grass. I started the trench to stop the tree roots invading my vegetable beds, a problem on my shallow soil which I didn&#8217;t think was more than 20cm depth anywhere, but where the pictures are taken seems to be part of an old sand quarry and it was much deeper than I ever imagined and I&#8217;m still not down to the rock! I gave up having excavated a lot of sand and come down to a layer of clay beneath. I&#8217;ve now refilled this with large rocks! I remember excavating this part 30 years ago in the spring and finding a hard layer that I thought was rock&#8230;it seems it was frozen :)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9dajv\" data-offset-key=\"7rlhi-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7rlhi-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7rlhi-0-0\">The second picture shows another bed I constructed when building the greenhouse (RIP) for my mint collection. The mints were grown in pots and sunk in gravel to stop them wandering. I&#8217;ve dug it all out, cleaned the gravel and replanted!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20327\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1880389.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1880389.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1880389-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1880389-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1880390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1880390.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1880390-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1880390-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"7rlhi-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20326\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140269.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140269-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140269-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following and supporting the discussions that we need to Dig for Victory against climate change as though we were in a war&#8230;.this is the progress so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3316,3318,3317,510],"class_list":["post-20325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ditches","tag-mentha","tag-mints","tag-the-edible-garden"],"views":2584,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20329,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20325\/revisions\/20329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}