{"id":5182,"date":"2020-08-02T16:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/my-lilies-were-trashed-by-squirrels\/"},"modified":"2020-08-02T16:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T16:23:26","slug":"my-lilies-were-trashed-by-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/my-lilies-were-trashed-by-squirrels\/","title":{"rendered":"My lilies were trashed by squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/> &#8211; <em>Elizabeth T<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>In the early days most of my newly potted lilies were nibbled away by squirrels!  How can I nurture the bulbs for next year when at least three bulbs have shown no growth  above the soil, and others show 8 inches of leaved stem only?<br \/>\nThank goodness 6 survived.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the pink purple colouring that attract the varmits!!<br \/>\nThanks<br \/>\nLiz<br \/>\nA a first time customer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hubmaster_faq_answer\">Hi Liz<br \/>\nI would advise giving your lilies a slow release fertiliser when they start to show signs of growth again in the spring. You could also give them a tomato feed with half the diluted strength. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/Easy-Feed-Slow-Release-Fertiliser.html\">Slow Release Fertiliser &#8211; Easy Feed Pack  (SKU18119)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">The Hart Family<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Liz<br \/>\nI would advise giving your lilies a slow release fertiliser when they start.. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/my-lilies-were-trashed-by-squirrels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-5182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","tag-faq"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}