{"id":10055,"date":"2023-08-29T16:09:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10055"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:09:47","slug":"this-time-of-the-year-its-winters-coming-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/08\/29\/this-time-of-the-year-its-winters-coming-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"This time of the year, it’s “winter’s coming mode”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re rushing more lately, knowing that our wonderful fall weather may come to a screeching halt sometime way too soon. Although the forecast is for warmer weather all this week, we’re feeling the pinch. After all, frost has happened this time of the year in the past. So, every day, I’m picking and seeding out dozens of tomato varieties, watching the rest beginning to ripen very fast now. Whew! Even with our dry conditions, the tomatoes in the Wolf Garden, without watering, are doing very well. The peppers in the Main Garden aren’t doing so well. It seems that everyone’s peppers around here are so <\/em>slow to set peppers on them, and when they do, it’s only one or two at a time. I’m sure it’s the weird weather we’ve had this summer. But the good news is one of our new peppers is awesome. It’s called Donkey Ears and it’s a very sweet pepper that looks, well, like donkey ears, being long, pointed and also broad. I love the taste! It’s going to be in our gardens for a long time in the future.<\/p>\n

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One of the new tomatoes I seeded out was this beautiful Painted Lady; juicy, tasty, and gorgeous too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aren’t Donkey Ears pretty? They taste great, too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will had a great idea. A friend gave us some smaller solar panels, which are stored safely in our basement. Will decided to mount four of them as a roof on our new-to-us electric golf cart, my now-favorite go around vehicle. It already is charged via our battery bank in the basement, but he figured if he mounted panels directly on the vehicle, it would be self-sustaining. How cool is that? Yesterday, between weeding and haying, he got busy and made a bracket to hold them up there. (The light plastic roof mounts weren’t strong enough.) Now he’s deciding on which charge controller to use. We do have a smaller one, down in the basement, left over from the days when we only had three very small panels to charge our batteries. Now, with larger panels and more of them, the small charge controller isn’t enough. I’m just happy that the project is in the works. Not only will we save gas (and money), but the vehicle will provide its own power.<\/p>\n

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In his “spare time,” Will’s working on modifying our electric, battery-operated golf cart to all solar-powered.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, Will cut many of our ripe Amazing cauliflower heads. It is <\/em>amazing how large they are and how they ripened all at once. So, this afternoon, I’ll be cutting, blanching, and freezing them for use in the winter. I am saving a couple of heads to make end-of-the-garden pickles with. These sweet pickles contain cauliflower, peppers, carrots, zucchini, and cabbage is you choose. We love them and it’s yet another way to use that late garden bounty.<\/p>\n

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The Amazing cauliflower heads are truly amazing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re rushing more lately, knowing that our wonderful fall weather may come to a screeching halt sometime way too soon. Although the forecast is for warmer weather all this week, we’re feeling the pinch. After all, frost has happened this time of the year in the past. So, every day, I’m picking and seeding out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,8,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055"}],"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=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10060,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions\/10060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}