{"id":322,"date":"2010-03-07T19:24:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T19:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/?p=322"},"modified":"2010-03-07T19:49:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T19:49:23","slug":"ahh-bindweed-king-of-the-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"7th March &#8211; Bindweed &#8211; king of the crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_324\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pond_clearance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324\" src=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pond_clearance-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"bindweed and bigger obstacles\" title=\"pond_clearance\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pond_clearance-300x252.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/pond_clearance.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hands full of bindweed, and what has Brendan found ?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If only we could find a recipe for eating bindweed. Another busy Workday today down at the patch, mostly deep digging to clear the patch to the north of  the greenhouse. A permaculture design has been roughly sketched out, and the team are keen to get beyond &#8211; well, digging. The prize archaelogical find was, I&#8217;m afraid something I remember being installed, a plastic bucket placed as a pond alongside the herb spiral.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, Tat was busy with higher maths, and how to stretch the available pieces of wood to make a new lid for one water tank that would serve to extend the high water storage that irrigates the greenhouse from 2 x 40 gallon tanks to 3.<\/p>\n<p>Mark worked his way once more along the far side of the fence, tending the brambles which maintains the security of the fence for us, and offers our neighbours a good crop of blackberries.<\/p>\n<p>And Andy was tapping glass for most of the day. He thought he&#8217;d fixed all the main holes in the greenhouse until he sat down for a cup of tea and noticed more to do, for another day.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_328\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/stew_break.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-328\" src=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/stew_break-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Lunchbreak 7 March 2010 workday\" title=\"stew_break\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/stew_break-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/stew_break.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soaking up the sun, full of curry and stew<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nWe had to stop for a great Venison curry (more cardamons than ever), grand sausage hotpot, homebaked bread rolls and dainty cherry and almond cakes, and the sun was kind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If only we could find a recipe for eating bindweed. Another busy Workday today down at the patch, mostly deep digging to clear the patch to the north of the greenhouse. A permaculture design has been roughly sketched out, and the team are keen to get beyond &#8211; well, digging. The prize archaelogical find was, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workdays","tag-workday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11qW2-5c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tatnampatch.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}