{"id":144,"date":"2021-03-23T03:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T03:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/?p=144"},"modified":"2021-03-24T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T10:09:50","slug":"gardens-for-fun-or-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Gardens: for Fun or Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?<\/h3>\n<p>Why do you want a garden? Is it to compliment the style of your home, show off to the neighbors, attract wildlife, shade you home, feed your family, help the environment&#8230;..?<\/p>\n<p>For me, it was to feed my family and to help do my bit for the environment. But it also had to be appealing, be a place for relaxation and fit the space we had available. You need to decide what&#8217;s important for you and then go from there. Things to take into consideration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is your garden for entertaining or to give children or animals space to play?<\/li>\n<li>Is your garden a home food supply for you and your family?<\/li>\n<li>How much time do you want to spend maintaining your garden and how much time do you have available to maintain your garden?<\/li>\n<li>What size garden do you want and does it match the reality of what size garden you actually have?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no rule that says your garden has to provide your family with food or be filled with only native plants. Those in apartments won&#8217;t have the same space as someone in a house. You need to look at what works best for you and know that even planting a couple of pots with herbs or flowers is a start and is helping the environment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='wp-image-146 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-146 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Spring-Garden-1_500x500_V01-300x300.jpg\" alt='' title='Spring Garden 1_500x500_V01' height=\"300\" width=\"300\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Spring-Garden-1_500x500_V01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Spring-Garden-1_500x500_V01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Spring-Garden-1_500x500_V01-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Spring-Garden-1_500x500_V01-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Spring-Garden-1_500x500_V01.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ss.shift7solutions.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}