{"id":10073,"date":"2023-09-12T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10073"},"modified":"2023-09-12T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T20:17:08","slug":"the-weather-station-is-posting-the-f-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/09\/12\/the-weather-station-is-posting-the-f-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The weather station is posting the F word"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not that <\/em>“F” word \u2014 frost<\/em>! Tomorrow night, the temperature is diving down to a forecast of 35 degrees F. That’s fine, but we usually have temperatures about 5 degrees colder than what they say. That means 30 degrees! Eeek! And <\/em>they have frost advisories for our area. Guess what we’ve been doing all day? Yep, picking tomatoes, beans, and squash. Tomorrow, it’s many more tomatoes, beans, melons, and more squash. We are so fortunate to have our wonderful electric golf cart. It’s so handy for hauling in produce as well as hauling us around. After all, one of our gardens is half a mile from the house! Yes, I know walking is good exercise. But I dare you to tell that to my knees.<\/p>\n

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Our little electric golf cart is a huge help around the homestead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Picking stuff is hard work, as all has to be labeled so we keep it straight. But we are constantly amazed at some of the crops. This year, we planted the first open pollinated, naturally bred super-sweet, sweet corn, Damaun. The first patch ripened, and we ate an ear each. Now, our second patch is ripe (and we hope the frost doesn’t come and kill the plants!). Those cobs are at least 10 inches long and the taste is very good \u2014 sweet but still “corny.” We’re real excited about that. Then the Goat Bag paste tomatoes are really big. Some weigh almost 3 pounds and are very meaty and flavorful too. Such a great paste tomato. You sure don’t need a bushel to make a lot of tomato sauce!<\/p>\n

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This is a cob of Damaun super-sweet, sweet corn. Cool, huh?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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These are some Goat Bag tomatoes; that’s Will’s gloved hand at the top.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We tried a new tomato this year that is simply gorgeous. It’s called Girl Girl’s Weird Thing and it’s both colorful and strange too. Many have these little points emerging from the blossom end like cow’s teats. Yep, weird! Then there’s an old standby, Gargamel, which is also a very beautiful larger-than-plum smaller tomato. Flashed with red and stripes of dark purple, it’s a knockout. Gorgeous in a salad! Of course, we’re eating tomatoes like crazy while picking.<\/p>\n

The squash crop is great this year. Our Canada Crooknecks are huge! And boy do we have lots of them. Will picked the biggest to bring home tonight. The necks are so long it’s easy to just slice them in three-inch slices and bake them on a cookie sheet. No seeds, except in the bulb end. Lots of Hopi Pale Greys, Sweet Fall, and Lakota too. We tried a new-to-us Native squash, Hidatsa, and love this large roundish tannish squash. Very productive and quite early, too. I can’t wait to taste it, but I figure if it’s been around for centuries, it must be good.<\/p>\n

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Will’s holding our biggest (to date) Canada Crookneck squash. This is one of the ancestors of the Waltham Butternut squash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pray the frost misses us! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, not that “F” word \u2014 frost! Tomorrow night, the temperature is diving down to a forecast of 35 degrees F. That’s fine, but we usually have temperatures about 5 degrees colder than what they say. That means 30 degrees! Eeek! And they have frost advisories for our area. Guess what we’ve been doing all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073"}],"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=10073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10078,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10073\/revisions\/10078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}