{"id":438,"date":"2014-05-26T18:28:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T17:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:05:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T08:05:35","slug":"turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/turf\/","title":{"rendered":"Turf, Rain and Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a ring around the Cyprus tree where nothing but weeds would grow.\u00a0\u00a0 Now that the Cyprus has been replaced by a strawberry plant we&#8217;ve removed the pile of needles, added a tonne of top soil, and are going for grass.\u00a0\u00a0 There are other huge areas of lawn to patch in at the same time.\u00a0 The grass to the right is new turf we laid on Friday and it matches well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turfing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-442\" alt=\"turfing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turfing-450x324.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turfing-450x324.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turfing-624x450.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turfing.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We got only so far on Friday.\u00a0 The rest of the bank holiday weekend was good weather for ducks.\u00a0 The turf turned to mud so it&#8217;s laid out on the driveway waiting for next weekend.\u00a0\u00a0 Oddly we now seem to have some ducks.\u00a0 They arrived on Friday and are still here on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ducks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-443\" alt=\"ducks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ducks-450x313.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ducks-450x313.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ducks-624x434.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ducks.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following weekend the ducks are still here, but only one at a time.\u00a0\u00a0 We think they are looking after eggs.<\/p>\n<p>The weather dried up and we finished the turf on Friday.\u00a0 Kae has added some very creative planting and the garden now looks fabulous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turf-laid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-451\" alt=\"turf-laid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turf-laid-450x337.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turf-laid-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turf-laid-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/turf-laid.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The planning conditions look like they have all been approved. We&#8217;ve got a great planning officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a ring around the Cyprus tree where nothing but weeds would grow.\u00a0\u00a0 Now that the Cyprus has been replaced by a strawberry plant we&#8217;ve removed the pile of needles, added a tonne of top soil, and are going for grass.\u00a0\u00a0 There are other huge areas of lawn to patch in at the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}