{"id":10044,"date":"2023-08-22T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10044"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:48:58","slug":"holy-cow-the-days-fly-by-when-youre-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/08\/22\/holy-cow-the-days-fly-by-when-youre-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy cow, the days fly by when you’re busy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tomato crop is coming in and I’ve been so busy picking them, labeling them, and saving seeds. My entire dining room table is covered with cups, mugs, half pint canning jars, and bowls of various tomato seeds fermenting away for 3 days, 2 days, and today (when I strain them in a wire strainer under running water, then set the seeds out on paper plates to dry). Fortunately, my back is back to 100% of normal, my hip is nearly there, and the knee is much better too. I think that’s all due to switching from the four-wheeler to the golf cart. Hooray! Thank you, God!<\/p>\n

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Delilah LOVES fishing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have to shoot you this picture granddaughter, Delilah’s other grandma took of her and Papa fishing. Boy, is she hooked for life! I think it’s so much fun to see that huge smile.<\/p>\n

The garden is booming. Will and I had our first sweet corn, an ear each of Simonet and Seneca Sunrise. Although they were both a couple of days from being fully ready, they sure tasted great. Right now, we’re eating pretty much everything we grow on the farm; tomatoes, lettuce, summer squash, various beef cuts\/burger, onions, and green beans, thanks to our wonderful Provider bush beans. As usual, we’ve trialed several new crops and were astounded by some of the tomatoes, like Orange Minsk and Moonlight Mile Variegated, which has multi-colored tomatoes and also leaves. Then the new zucchini, Costata Romanesco made us life-long fans! We’ve eaten it for two weeks now and can’t get enough. Last night I fried slices with crumbled bacon, in bacon grease, along with onions. Then I put some shredded cheese on top and let it melt. Probably not good for our arteries, but wow, was it good!<\/p>\n

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These are Orange Minsk beefsteak tomatoes. Cool, huh?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then the Atlantic Giant pumpkins are knocking our socks off. I honestly have at least four that weigh more than 150 pounds already and we have (hopefully) another month of growing to go. They are said to gain 5 pounds a day in good soil. My oldest son, Bill, and his family were here yesterday to pick up their Lab, Buddy, who we’d been dog-sitting. All were wowed when we went to look at those pumpkins. Of course, I promised them one of the biggest ones, too. I was shocked when I looked at the cauliflower. I’d only been down there four days ago, and the heads were the size of a 50-cent piece. Now, they’re a bit over-ripe, with the beads on the head starting to separate. Guess who’s got to freeze cauliflower today! After seeding out a few more tomato varieties and picking the Provider green beans I haven’t been able to give away to enough friends yet. (They’re getting to the point where if I leave them longer, they might get tough.)<\/p>\n

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Here’s one of our Atlantic Giants. It’s over knee-high now and about 150 pounds!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Someone has to get at freezing cauliflower today!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn’t blog yesterday as we had tons of company. All at once! I only expected one person, but a couple of fans and Seed Treasures customers dropped in, then Bill and his family came. Such a fun day, but it went so very fast! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tomato crop is coming in and I’ve been so busy picking them, labeling them, and saving seeds. My entire dining room table is covered with cups, mugs, half pint canning jars, and bowls of various tomato seeds fermenting away for 3 days, 2 days, and today (when I strain them in a wire strainer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,8,9,10,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044"}],"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=10044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10049,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10044\/revisions\/10049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}