{"id":10079,"date":"2023-09-14T18:33:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T22:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10079"},"modified":"2023-09-14T18:33:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T22:33:48","slug":"well-it-froze-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/09\/14\/well-it-froze-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, it froze!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We knew it was only a matter of time and the weather forecast called for a freeze warning for our area. So, taking no chances, we picked and picked, mostly tomatoes and peppers, as we couldn’t cover them. (Will did manage to cover the ones in the Main Garden.) Now, we have tomatoes sitting all over the front porch, all labeled so I can seed them out when I get time. Yep, it froze \u2014 we had 28 degrees F, in the morning. I was up all night, off and on, checking the temperature. I had the Main Garden’s hose out and the sprinkler positioned so I could water if the frost came at sunrise, as usual. Nope. At 1:30, it was 29 degrees and just before sunrise, I went out to start the generator so I could run the sprinkler. No good \u2014 the hose was frozen solid. Oh well.<\/p>\n

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The front porch is lined with boxes and baskets of tomatoes, with more to harvest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, I went out in the morning and picked another golf cart full of boxes of tomatoes and labeled them so I could seed them out. Then, our friend, Heather and her son, Providence, came over to help. We picked sweet corn as the darned Blue Jays were getting into it badly. Heather had bagged the Damaun super-sweet, the bulk of the Seneca Sunrise, but the Jays were getting into the Simonet, down in the Sand Garden, pretty badly. We ended up picking five crates, all totaled, with lots of Seneca Sunrise, Damaun and Who Gets Kissed, protected by bags over the ears. We sent Heather and Providence home with sweet corn, Oka muskmelons, and Leelanau Sweetglo watermelons as well as some Bozeman watermelons. After all, good help deserves goodies!<\/p>\n

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With the help of Heather and Providence, we got all the Simonet and a lot of the Seneca Sunrise sweet corn saved from the Blue Jays.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We now have five crates of sweet corn for me to tie up on hay strings to dry in the house. This is Simonet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In between the picking, I managed to get the last of the Dragon’s Tongue beans canned up. Luckily, canning snap beans doesn’t take long! Now, we’ve got the front porch lined with tomatoes and melons. We picked about five 5-gallon buckets full of Oka muskmelons. The darned voles were chewing holes in the bottoms and eating all the seeds and meat. They know a good thing. Of course, we “had” to eat the melons to get the seeds out to save. Ha ha! It looks like the watermelons didn’t get damaged by the freeze, but we’ll keep a close watch on them. Yes, the vines are goners.<\/p>\n

Today, I’m tying up husked sweet corn on recycled baling string to hang and finish drying in the house. One year, I hung it on the front porch and both the chipmunks and birds got into it right away. Lesson learned! I got cramps in my hand so am going to switch out to picking more tomatoes, instead. See you later! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We knew it was only a matter of time and the weather forecast called for a freeze warning for our area. So, taking no chances, we picked and picked, mostly tomatoes and peppers, as we couldn’t cover them. (Will did manage to cover the ones in the Main Garden.) Now, we have tomatoes sitting all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10080,"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\/10079"}],"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=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10083,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions\/10083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}