{"id":6942,"date":"2025-10-09T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/?p=6942"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:04:38","slug":"tattie-picking-week-in-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/2025\/10\/09\/tattie-picking-week-in-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattie Picking Week in Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May the S4 Biologists set one tattie while studying plant propagation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We put it in a bucket and set it outside to grow.\u00a0 We have checked on it through the year and observed the plant going through all the stages, including flowering.<\/p>\n<p>On the 9 October, on the eve of \u201cTattie Picking Week\u201d we harvested our tatties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>How many tatties do you get fuy a tattie\u201d<\/em> was the question and there was a prize for the nearest correct answer.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s winner was Alice Irvine who guessed exactly right \u2013 15 tatties.\u00a0\u00a0 Well done Alice.\u00a0 She gets to take the tatties home and cook them with a little rosemary from the polytunnel.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6941\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whalsayschoolweb\/uploads\/sites\/2585\/2025\/10\/09110246\/Tatties-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whalsayschoolweb\/uploads\/sites\/2585\/2025\/10\/09110246\/Tatties-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/whalsayschoolweb\/uploads\/sites\/2585\/2025\/10\/09110246\/Tatties.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May the S4 Biologists set one tattie while studying plant propagation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We put it in a bucket and set it outside to grow.\u00a0 We have checked on it through the year and observed the plant going through all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/2025\/10\/09\/tattie-picking-week-in-biology\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6942\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/whalsayschoolweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}