{"id":10024,"date":"2023-08-03T18:14:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T22:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10024"},"modified":"2023-08-03T18:14:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T22:14:58","slug":"wow-is-the-garden-ever-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/08\/03\/wow-is-the-garden-ever-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow, is the garden ever growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s amazing how fast everything is maturing. Tonight, I’ve got to pick several Umpqua broccoli heads, which I’ll cut up and freeze. (I have lots of dehydrated broccoli on hand already.) It’s so sweet I could eat it three meals a day. And the three cauliflower varieties, Amazing, Purple of Sicily, and Rober are all getting huge. I haven’t seen any heads forming yet, but soon. And I think they’ll be gigantic from the size of the leaves. All of our sweet corn is tasseled out and has set ears, many having three ears per seed as much of it has stooled out, setting tillers (new plants), next to the main stalk. I can’t wait to start having fresh from the garden corn on the cob! Corn at our local market is 79 cents an ear<\/em>! Holy cow!<\/p>\n

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Our broccoli and cauliflower plants are huge this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It seems like everything is going up in price. I’m not talking about 20 cents an item, more like a dollar or more! One more reason to plant more food. I just saw a can of roast beef hash for $5.79, and not <\/em>a #10 can either \u2014 16 ounces. Whew! We’re having BLTs tonight as the tomatoes are getting ripe. They taste so good; the drool runs down your chin!<\/p>\n

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Our Oka melons are happily setting lots of fruit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I checked our muskmelons and the Okas have already set nice softball-sized melons. I’m glad as it’s Will’s very favorite melon. Now if he doesn’t get sick from eating them. Likewise, the watermelons all have little melons setting on them and I have basketball sized Atlantic Giant pumpkins. Those babies double in size daily it seems. Walking back to the house, I checked some of my fancy daylilies and was awed at some of the blooms. They are so beautiful! I also spotted the very first acorn on one of the white oak trees Will brought when he moved here from Washington, years ago, as a tiny seedling. He found a few acorns sprouting in sidewalk cracks and rescued them. Planting them in cups, they grew. So, he packed them in his luggage when he came here. Of course, we planted them and now the trees are 20 feet tall. How cool is that?<\/p>\n

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Some of my fancy daylilies are blooming now to awe us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here’s one of the very first acorns from one of the seedling oak trees Will saved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had my knee checked out today as it has been pretty painful, and I needed to make sure nothing was wrong. Fortunately, the X-rays were great and there was no infection. So, I’ll just have to keep icing it and doing my exercises as it continues to heal. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s amazing how fast everything is maturing. Tonight, I’ve got to pick several Umpqua broccoli heads, which I’ll cut up and freeze. (I have lots of dehydrated broccoli on hand already.) It’s so sweet I could eat it three meals a day. And the three cauliflower varieties, Amazing, Purple of Sicily, and Rober are all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10029,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024\/revisions\/10029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}