{"id":1188,"date":"2011-09-06T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2012-05-06T10:41:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T00:41:27","slug":"remnants-like-specks-of-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/remnants-like-specks-of-paint\/","title":{"rendered":"REMNANTS LIKE SPECKS OF PAINT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broccoli-waltham-head.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1189\" title=\"garden-august-2011-broccoli-waltham-head\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broccoli-waltham-head.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Broccoli Waltham in the nature strip\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-cauliflower.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1192\" title=\"garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-cauliflower\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-cauliflower.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Cauliflower in the nature strip guerrilla garden\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-broccoli.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1190\" title=\"garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-broccoli\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-broccoli.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Broccoli Waltham in the nature strip guerrilla garden\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broccoli-waltham-chopping-board.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1198\" title=\"garden-august-2011-broccoli-waltham-chopping-board\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broccoli-waltham-chopping-board.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Broccoli on the chopping board\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broccoli-pasta-chilli-parmesan.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1199\" title=\"garden-august-2011-broccoli-pasta-chilli-parmesan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broccoli-pasta-chilli-parmesan.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Broccoli, chilli, lemon zest, bread crumb and parmesan pasta\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-artichoke-marigolds.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1191\" title=\"garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-artichoke-marigolds\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-artichoke-marigolds.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Globe artichoke and orange marigolds in the nature strip guerrilla garden\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-grape-hyacinth.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1193\" title=\"garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-grape-hyacinth\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-nature-strip-guerrilla-gardening-grape-hyacinth.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Grape hyacinth flowering in the nature strip guerrilla garden\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broccoli-broccoli-waltham-spider.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1194\" title=\"garden-august-2011-broccoli-broccoli-waltham-spider\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broccoli-broccoli-waltham-spider.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Spider in the broccoli Waltham\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-no-dig-broccoli-borad-beans-aquadulce-crimson.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1195\" title=\"garden-august-2011-no-dig-broccoli-borad-beans-aquadulce-crimson\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-no-dig-broccoli-borad-beans-aquadulce-crimson.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Broccoli and broad beans in the no-dig garden\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broad-bean-aquadulce-borage.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1196\" title=\"garden-august-2011-broad-bean-aquadulce-borage\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broad-bean-aquadulce-borage.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Aquadulce broad beansgrown from seeds from the Diggers Club\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-blue-borage-flower.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1197\" title=\"garden-august-2011-blue-borage-flower\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-blue-borage-flower.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Blue borage flowers\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broccoli-garden-diary-watercolour.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1188]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1200\" title=\"garden-august-2011-broccoli-garden-diary-watercolour\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garden-august-2011-broccoli-garden-diary-watercolour.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Garden diary watercolours and colourful specks of food on the plate to match\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our little nature strip guerrilla garden has burst into life as winter and spring fight it out (looks like the last week of 20 degrees and glorious sunshine will be battered down to 11 degrees and dreariness by the end of the week. Sigh.). The broccoli has formed beautiful heads and the cauliflower is shyly following. After hearing about the local naughties raiding nearby community and school gardens, in some cases departing with whole strawberry plants, I have been delighted to see no one has taken anything. Sure people seem to think it is a good place to dispose of junk mail and empties but otherwise people have left it alone. More surprising, as is technically public land people have more of a right to have a nibble, but don&#8217;t tell them I said that until after I have harvested my first cauliflower, he&#8217;s just so cute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is the recipe for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcgoodfood.com\/recipes\/1190643\/chilli-and-garlic-spaghetti-with-lemon-crumbs\" target=\"_blank\">Broccoli and chilli pasta with garlic breadcrumbs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our little nature strip guerrilla garden has burst into life as winter and spring fight it out (looks like the last week of 20 degrees and glorious sunshine will be battered down to 11 degrees and dreariness by the end of the week. Sigh.). The broccoli has formed beautiful heads and the cauliflower is shyly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,55],"tags":[221,220,276,34,145,52,14,66],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-recipes","tag-flemington","tag-flemington-earthbag-garden","tag-garden-diary","tag-gardening","tag-guerrilla-gardening","tag-no-dig","tag-painting","tag-watercolours"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4l1F7-ja","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}