{"id":244,"date":"2010-05-19T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp\/?p=244"},"modified":"2010-05-19T16:47:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:47:30","slug":"the-grass-is-greener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/2010\/05\/the-grass-is-greener\/","title":{"rendered":"The grass is greener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our “lawn” is looking decidedly unhappy, so I decided to give a bit of love to a section of it.<\/p>\n

I used a garden fork to aerate it a bit, and tried to sweep sharp sand into the holes. Seemed to leave a lot still above ground, at the roots, but I left it. As I was packing up, I found some lawn feed in the garage, so I chucked a bit in a watering can and gave the bit I’d worked on a drink. I’d run out of sand, so I gave up at that point.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I noticed something…odd.<\/p>\n

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The dark green bit is the bit I worked on. I wasn’t expecting such a noticeable change!<\/p>\n

The downside is that now I feel compelled to treat the rest the same way. More work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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