{"id":558,"date":"2013-01-18T12:29:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T20:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/?p=558"},"modified":"2013-01-22T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:01:40","slug":"theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/2013\/01\/18\/theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Theft in the patio garden!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although they got a late start, the Rainbow Lacinato<\/a> kale<\/a> was coming along nicely. I even got one handful of a harvest on January 2nd. It had been growing well under a lightweight row cover cloth, but seeing as how we were forecast to have a week+ of sunshine I thought I’d take the row cover off to allow as much sunlight as possible.<\/p>\n

\"January<\/a>\"January<\/a><\/p>\n

I also decided to pull out the fish fertilizer to try to bump up the nutrients as much as possible… and then it happened!<\/p>\n

\"January<\/a><\/p>\n

On Thursday morning I woke up to find that the kale plant closest to my patio edge was stripped down to the stalk.<\/p>\n

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\"January<\/a><\/p>\n

On Friday morning I woke up to find that the thief had been back overnight, but at least this time had mercy and left a leaf and the growing tip.<\/p>\n

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The consensus on Facebook is that this is some type of rodent (rabbit, raccoon) coming by to eat the yummy leaves during this cold snap we are having. I have a feeling the fish fertilizer was the attractant.<\/p>\n

Since the second plant may have a fighting chance, I have placed a toilet paper tube around the base and replaced the row cover. Hopefully this will be enough to keep the thief away. If not, I will use the GoPro and conduct some surveillance!<\/p>\n

On another note the beets are still surviving, but I have my doubts that they are actually making any edible roots. It makes me wonder if these are the Kestrel<\/a> variety I thought I got or if they are actually Bull’s Blood<\/a>, which are grown for salad greens and don’t really make bulbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although they got a late start, the Rainbow Lacinato kale was coming along nicely. I even got one handful of a harvest on January 2nd. It had been growing well under a lightweight row cover cloth, but seeing as how we were forecast to have a week+ of sunshine I thought I’d take the row […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174154,1370],"tags":[479243,479262,214199,831,479263,479261],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables","category-winter","tag-beets","tag-garden-theft","tag-kale","tag-protection","tag-rodents","tag-winter-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tinygarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}