{"id":10142,"date":"2023-10-26T17:18:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T21:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2023-10-26T17:18:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T21:18:03","slug":"well-we-got-er-nearly-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/10\/26\/well-we-got-er-nearly-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, we got ‘er nearly done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luckily, the rain held off mostly yesterday, and we got nearly all the carrots, beets, potatoes, and rutabagas pulled. David and Delilah came over in the morning and helped pull a crate of carrots. It was so much fun watching her squeal every time a big carrot came out of the ground. I tossed the tiny ones on the ground with the tops, but she picked up every one and wanted those in the buckets too. Gee, was she born with the “waste not, want not” gene?<\/p>\n

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Despite the drought, our carrots were spectacular!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Check out this Scarlet Nantes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I started in digging Bliss Triumph potatoes and made it down two thirds of a 100-foot row and had to stop. There was another row of russets next to it too! Luckily, Will came out and dug that row, then our friend, Angie and her family came out, at our invitation, to pick beets, carrots, rutabagas, and cabbages for their family. Her guys helped Will crate up the potatoes he’d dug and had lying on the ground. I got a bunch of beets pulled, along with a whole crate of onions. The onions weren’t as big this year, but there were more of them than I’d thought.<\/p>\n

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The potato crop was so-so, but we have plenty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This year, we have tons of wonderful beets! Lots to share.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I put the onions on the bench, in the greenhouse, to dry and we’ve got the carrots, beets, and rutabagas on the front porch to protect them from freezing tonight and tomorrow night. Then, we’ll move them into the basement for storage. I’ve still got some more to pull when the rain quits today. (And even if it doesn’t.) We have some huge cabbages this year. I tried some of Baker Creek’s Giant Chinese cabbages and they are truly giants, weighing nearly 20 pounds each or more. Wow!<\/p>\n

Well, gotta go, the garden’s calling! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luckily, the rain held off mostly yesterday, and we got nearly all the carrots, beets, potatoes, and rutabagas pulled. David and Delilah came over in the morning and helped pull a crate of carrots. It was so much fun watching her squeal every time a big carrot came out of the ground. I tossed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142"}],"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=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10147,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/10147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}