{"id":10393,"date":"2024-05-06T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T21:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10393"},"modified":"2024-05-07T17:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T21:32:17","slug":"holy-cow-springs-sure-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/05\/06\/holy-cow-springs-sure-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy cow, spring’s sure busy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been planting our melons, squash, and pumpkins inside. We do this as we have such a short growing season that by planting four or five weeks ahead of our frost-free spring date, we are assured of getting lots of mature seeds inside the fruits, not just food. I’ve still got a couple of rare squash to get planted in containers but I’m waiting for a pack yet, so I’ve switched gears. As we’ve become so busy with the seed business, I didn’t plant any onion seeds this year. Instead, I ordered plants from Dixondale Farms in Texas. My friends, Heather, Sherri, and Dara also ordered with me as when you order a lot, you get a very reduced price per bunch. A long time ago, I had a market garden down in Sturgeon Lake and bought plants from them. So, I was confident we’d get good service and good plants. Well, they arrived today! Eeek! We weren’t expecting them for another week or so. Will had tilled the Sand Garden a couple weeks ago but there were already some grass and weeds showing. We don’t want to plant onions in that. Today, he’s down there, quickly tilling it again in order to get those onions planted, hopefully tomorrow if the rain doesn’t get too bad. (I got a little overboard ordering onions as we love onions three meals a day, plus I dehydrate a bunch too.) Oh well, the plants look good and I’m sure I’ll be sharing them with others along the way.<\/p>\n

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Here’s our box of onions. That’s a lot of planting! Fortunately, I’m sharing them tomorrow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Will, busy tilling the Sand Garden again to get ready for planting our onion plants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will got busy and fastened the new picket fence up to the six-foot welded wire deer fence. It looks very nice. Just in time too, as our flowers are coming up in the beds closest to the house. Lots of daffodils blooming and the peonies are popping up like crazy. They love the rain and warm sunshine afterwards. I’ve got to mow the cornstalks in the Main Garden this afternoon. Will did the Berry Garden yesterday and one asparagus patch. As soon as I get that done, we’ll till it up, too. Spring is very busy around here!<\/p>\n

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Doesn’t our fence look great?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aren’t these daffodils beautiful? Spring is here!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

I’ve been planting our melons, squash, and pumpkins inside. We do this as we have such a short growing season that by planting four or five weeks ahead of our frost-free spring date, we are assured of getting lots of mature seeds inside the fruits, not just food. I’ve still got a couple of rare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393"}],"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=10393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10399,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions\/10399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}