{"id":6575,"date":"2016-09-01T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T11:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2023-12-20T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T13:46:20","slug":"my-very-first-garden-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=6575","title":{"rendered":"My very first garden in Edinburgh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My very first garden in Balerno, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, probably 1978-1979! I was renting a flat and living in with the landlady. She didn&#8217;t use the garden, so I asked whether I could :) Organic of course! I had become a member of HDRA, the foremost organic gardening organisation in the UK and their leader\/president Lawrence Hills was a great inspiration. I remember, on his encouragement, asking the council if I could gather leaves in the park to make compost!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Balerno_garden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6576 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Balerno_garden.jpg\" alt=\"Balerno_garden\" width=\"452\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Balerno_garden.jpg 452w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Balerno_garden-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My very first garden in Balerno, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, probably 1978-1979! I was renting a flat and living in with the landlady. She didn&#8217;t use the [&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":[],"class_list":["post-6575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":2679,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575","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=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31868,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions\/31868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}