{"id":10091,"date":"2023-09-25T17:19:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10091"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T21:19:47","slug":"rain-rain-go-away-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/09\/25\/rain-rain-go-away-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, rain, go away!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We sure needed this ongoing rain a couple of months ago when we were in drought. Now, it won’t quit! We’re still harvesting, bringing in tomatoes, squash, and corn. Let me tell you, it’s not pleasant walking through cornstalks, picking both sweet corn to can and corn to dry out for our seed business. And the temp’s about 56 degrees F, so not only is it rainy, but cold, too. I pick for an hour then come in and take a hot shower. Even seeding out tomatoes is cold work lately. I do it on the front porch as it’s a messy job when you do it in bulk and I don’t need any more fruit flies in the house. We’ve already got a bunch.<\/p>\n

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Our cat, Buffy, is coming to check out a crate of sweet corn, destined to be seed corn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will still has a hayfield yet to bale, but that’s on hold, waiting for sunny weather and baler parts to arrive. He’s been helping out by picking corn and shucking it. While he shucks, I sit across from him and string up the sweet corn we’re saving for seed on used hay strings. That works very well and now the house is covered by strings of drying corn. It looks so pretty and will make a lot of seed and cornmeal. (We save the smallest cobs to use for cornmeal.)<\/p>\n

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On this rainy week, Will’s been busy picking and shucking corn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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While Will shucks, I am stringing up corn to dry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, I made the best salsa I’ve ever made. I was shy of green sweet peppers, so I added a half-pint of Cowboy Candy to the grinding tomatoes. Boy did that ever turn out yummy! I’ll sure do that again tomorrow, with our next batch. I also canned up a bunch of Mexican corn \u2014 sweet corn mixed with red and green sweet peppers.<\/p>\n

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m in love with these Donkey Ears sweet peppers, seen in a big bowl of Mexican corn to can up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m in love with a new sweet pepper called Donkey Ears! They are big, thick-meated and productive, even in this less-than-great pepper year. Very sweet, too. Our latest planting of sweet corn is just coming on, despite the frost. The frost killed the leaves but not the main stalk, which is feeding the ears, keeping them maturing. It’s been a strange frost this year, as it killed the plants but didn’t damage the crops. I’m very grateful! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We sure needed this ongoing rain a couple of months ago when we were in drought. Now, it won’t quit! We’re still harvesting, bringing in tomatoes, squash, and corn. Let me tell you, it’s not pleasant walking through cornstalks, picking both sweet corn to can and corn to dry out for our seed business. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091"}],"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=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10096,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions\/10096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}