{"id":823,"date":"2011-06-30T13:01:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T03:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2017-11-27T22:24:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T11:24:47","slug":"ruthless-pruning-june-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/ruthless-pruning-june-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"RUTHLESS PRUNING &#8211; JUNE IN THE GARDEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-almond.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[823]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-824\" title=\"garden-june-2011-almond\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-almond.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Pruning the almond\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-swale.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[823]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-825\" title=\"garden-june-2011-swale\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-swale.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Digging a mini swale\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-bulbs1.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[823]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-827\" title=\"garden-june-2011-bulbs\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-bulbs1.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Planting bulbs around the almond tree\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-potato-plant.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[823]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-829\" title=\"garden-june-2011-potato-plant\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-potato-plant.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Dying potato plant\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-potatoes.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[823]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-828\" title=\"garden-june-2011-potatoes\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-potatoes.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Digging up the potatoes\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-potatoes-calendula.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[823]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-830\" title=\"garden-june-2011-potatoes-calendula\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-potatoes-calendula.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Basket of potatoes\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>June has been a slow month. Our potato plants began to die so we started digging up their little red treasures. Our PDC lecturer inspired us to buy some bare rooted trees. We bought an almond from St Erth to grow up and hide the flats and a nectarine because it rates as one of my favourite fruits. The almond is going to share its plot with a sweet little kiwi berry and some spring bulbs. Dylan pruned the poor almond down to three branches, but come spring the sad little twig should sprout into an abundance of leaves and flowers&#8230;fingers crossed. Perhaps his min swale will help it flourish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June has been a slow month. Our potato plants began to die so we started digging up their little red treasures. Our PDC lecturer inspired us to buy some bare rooted trees. We bought an almond from St Erth to grow up and hide the flats and a nectarine because it rates as one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"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":true,"_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],"tags":[112,221,220,73],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden","tag-edible-gardens","tag-flemington","tag-flemington-earthbag-garden","tag-pdc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/garden-june-2011-potatoes-calendula.jpg?fit=660%2C495&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4l1F7-dh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}