{"id":26990,"date":"2022-11-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26990"},"modified":"2022-11-09T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T06:00:00","slug":"aristotle-is-expanding-wednesday-9th-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/aristotle-is-expanding-wednesday-9th-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Aristotle is expanding – Wednesday 9th November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aristotle is expanding<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now, when I say that Aristotle is expanding I don\u2019t actually mean he is personally. He has designs on taking over the world with his gardening. More specifically it\u2019s his vegetables. As he has done so well this year, he thought it was a good opportunity to put forward a proposal for some more vegetable beds. Thankfully, he\u2019s not stupid. He has asked for these ones to be at a lower level \u2018so he doesn\u2019t need so much help from Mum\u2019. What it of course actually means is that the vegetables will be at a level where we can pick some of them too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making his pitch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

He took Mum and Dad outside to show them where he had in mind. It\u2019s at the nearest end of the orchard. He had his plans all worked out. That grass isn\u2019t being used for anything else. It\u2019s to the south of the orchard trees so will get plenty of light. If there are paths around then it will be easy to get to without treading mud into the house (although he has reassured me that mud treading is still optional). He has even shown that with the seeds already ordered and the ones saved from this year he will be able to plant all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The big things he needs are the troughs themselves, or at least some wood, soil to put in them and some help from Mum. He even argued that all the compost that we\u2019re making will help to fill them \u2013 as long as we promise not to eat it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plans agreed<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To our surprise his plans were approved with very little difficulty. Now he says he should have asked for more. It\u2019s always hard to get a balance with how far to push your luck. Mind you based on his ability to negotiate up on his biscuit treat allowance I suspect he could have asked for almost anything and won. He\u2019s really a very good negotiator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Aristotle is expanding – it’s not him personally – it’s his vegetable growing. Wilma is impressed by his approach.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-26990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-2","tag-gardening","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}