{"id":2589,"date":"2021-09-14T09:40:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T08:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2021-09-15T09:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T08:12:13","slug":"water-soldier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/water-soldier-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Water soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2589 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_20210914.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_20210914-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_20210914-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_20210914-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_20210914-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_20210914.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2580'>\n\t\t\t\tPlant from Annie\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210914.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210914-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210914-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210914-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210914-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210914.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2581'>\n\t\t\t\tGreat pond snails shaken off plant after 12 hours in pond\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Last year I had so much water soldier I was giving it away and putting armfuls on the compost heap. This year it had all disappeared. I saw a few remains covered in great pond snails, and again suspected their delinquent behaviour. See <a href=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/frogspawn-2\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/great-pond-snails\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I put a plant kindly donated (returned) by Annie in the pond yesterday, and today shook these snails off it. There were no snails on the plant when I put it in the pond. I&#8217;m afraid they went on the compost heap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next day<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-2589 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210915.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210915-300x271.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-2593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210915-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210915-1024x924.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210915-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/water_soldier_snails_20210915.jpg 1197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-2593'>\n\t\t\t\tSnails shaken off next day\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Not as many as yesterday, but still a substantial number. And at least \u2153 of the plant has been eaten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I had so much water soldier I was giving it away and putting armfuls on the compost heap. This year it had all disappeared. I saw a few remains covered in great pond snails, and again suspected their delinquent behaviour. See here and here. I put a plant kindly donated (returned) by Annie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maintenance","category-plants","category-pond","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncvp.co.uk\/ngarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}