{"id":690,"date":"2021-11-24T11:51:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T10:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/?p=690"},"modified":"2021-11-24T11:51:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T10:51:46","slug":"installing-water-butts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/installing-water-butts\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing water butts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/water-butts.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/water-butts.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/water-butts-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/water-butts-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2021\/11\/water-butts-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Installing a few water butts around your house on your roof drainage down pipes is a great idea now especially as the climate is changing and we have long periods without rain, then period with lots of rain over a short period. Whilst water butts provide water for plants through the use of a watering can or gravity fed irrigation system they also provide a type of above ground soak away hold water in the event of a quick rain storm allowing it to be released at a slower rate at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing a few water butts around your house on your roof drainage down pipes is a great idea now especially as the climate is changing and we have long periods without rain, then period&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-gardening-tasks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/jackie-young\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}