{"id":26670,"date":"2022-08-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26670"},"modified":"2022-08-16T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:00:00","slug":"y-is-for-yarrow-tuesday-16th-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/y-is-for-yarrow-tuesday-16th-august-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Y is for Yarrow – Tuesday 16th August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Y is for Yarrow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In my alphabet of herbs, Y is for Yarrow. I\u2019m growing the yarrow right near one of the compost bins for good reason. It speeds up the breakdown of the compost. Dad could write several pages on what he\u2019s doing to help the compost along, but I\u2019m proud to say that I\u2019m doing my part to help it along by adding Yarrow. Nettles have much the same effect, but I don\u2019t need to plant those. They are successfully growing in our garden entirely of their own accord and even without any water still seem to do well. The yarrow is doing pretty well too, but that needs my help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t plant this from seed as Mum couldn\u2019t find any yarrow seeds. Wilma bought two plants for me as a special treat when they all went to the National Herb Centre without me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019d wanted some for ages, so was very excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About those pears<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I think Wilma was a little unfair telling tales on me about helping myself to the pears. What is a dog supposed to do. I like the rotten apples, but Mum has been round clearing those up. She\u2019s worried that they will make me ill. Now, that\u2019s a fair point, so I thought it would be far better to have something fresh off the tree. It was a sensible thing to do. Mum doesn\u2019t like pears so I wasn\u2019t doing any harm. To be fair, Dad does like pears but he\u2019s not hear to argue at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelp powder<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve joined Shadow on the Kelp powder each day. You wouldn\u2019t believe the state my coat has got into with this hot weather. It\u2019s a mess. Mum has given me a good brush, but it\u2019s still patchy. I said I preferred where I was shaved for my scan as that part of me was cooler, but Mum refused to shave the rest of my fur off. I\u2019d do it myself, but that\u2019s the sort of thing where the lack of thumbs is a real problem. You don\u2019t want to be clumsy with a razor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, a teaspoon of kelp each day works wonders for keeping the coat in good condition. I\u2019ve been asking to have it for ages, but it\u2019s been reserved for Shadow. Now, finally I\u2019m on the bedtime kelp too. I just hope it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aristotle<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Y is for Yarrow as Aristotle tells you about some of the herbs he’s growing and what he will use them for.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,173],"tags":[63,12,172],"class_list":["post-26670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-2","category-herbs","tag-aristotle","tag-gardening","tag-herbs","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}