{"id":3060,"date":"2017-04-15T11:22:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T11:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=3060"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:34:53","slug":"fruit-tree-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=3060","title":{"rendered":"Fruit tree and fruit bush  planting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our long term sustainability \u00a0programme KKB, our many residents associations and \u00a0our Local Authority are leaving a legacy \u00a0of extensive fruit tree and fruit \u00a0bush planting each year \u00a0right around Kilkenny City. These \u00a0trees and bushes \u00a0will continue to give fruit, cover and colour \u00a0to our community for many years to come, Kilkenny City has a very suitable micro climate for fruit tree planting. \u00a0Kilkenny: The orchard of Ireland.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3061\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3061\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3061\" src=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134.jpg 800w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackcurrant and gooseberry plants having been \u00a0propagated by \u00a0Keep Kilkenny Beautiful from 2016 cuttings are prepared for planting to create a new fruit garden in 2017. The fruit is equally popular for \u00a0\u00a0jam making as to be \u00a0eaten our birds during the summer.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3062\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3062\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3062\" src=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0120.jpg 800w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0120-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0120-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_0120-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple tree planting underway 2017 \u00a0creating a new fruit garden , protection is being \u00a0provided to protect the base of the trees from strimming and bark mulch to keep growth down by the \u00a0trees.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3063\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/105-apple-trees-black-abbey-DSC_0034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3063\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3063\" src=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/105-apple-trees-black-abbey-DSC_0034-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/105-apple-trees-black-abbey-DSC_0034-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/105-apple-trees-black-abbey-DSC_0034-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/105-apple-trees-black-abbey-DSC_0034-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/105-apple-trees-black-abbey-DSC_0034-453x300.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are already many fruit tree varieties in our city , this tree is located in the city centre near the Black abbey (pictured autumn 2016)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our long term sustainability \u00a0programme KKB, our many residents associations and \u00a0our Local Authority are leaving a legacy \u00a0of extensive fruit tree and fruit \u00a0bush planting each year \u00a0right around Kilkenny City. These \u00a0trees and bushes \u00a0will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/?p=3060\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,9,10,12,13],"tags":[33,881,879,878,134,880,882,397,426,551],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiversity","category-kilkenny-city","category-landscape","category-news","category-sustainability","category-wildlife","tag-apple","tag-birds","tag-blackcurrant","tag-bushes","tag-city","tag-gooseberry","tag-legacy","tag-orchard","tag-planting","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.keepkilkennybeautiful.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}