{"id":10411,"date":"2024-05-20T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10411"},"modified":"2024-05-20T17:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T21:31:11","slug":"im-canning-our-first-harvest-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/05\/20\/im-canning-our-first-harvest-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m canning our first harvest of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although we’ve been eating fresh asparagus a lot lately, our three beds are producing more than we can eat and doing it often! This morning, Will went out and brought in a big basket full so I could can it up. We really love it during the winter and late summer when it’s gone to ferns. I use it in a lot of recipes too. One we’ve loved was the typical green bean casserole, only I use asparagus instead, adding canned bacon bits and topping with cheese \u2014 pretty darned good! I’ll continue canning our surplus for a few weeks, then let it go on to make ferns so the plants will produce lots next year too. Next is our rhubarb. It’s nearly big enough for me to start pulling. First is a couple of rhubarb pies with meringue topping that we love. (Check out the recipe in my book, Jackie Clay’s Pantry Cookbook.) It’s not as tart as most rhubarb pie recipes due to the addition of egg yolks in the filling.<\/p>\n

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Will went out and picked this big basket of asparagus. Now I can get it canned up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will’s been spreading manure on the gardens, getting ready to till it under and begin planting in a couple of weeks. As spring came early this year, I’m sorely tempted to start in now. But I know better. We will still have a few killing frosts here and there. But our onion plants in the Wolf Garden look great. Instead of planting in the gardens, I’ve been planting in the new part of our front yard. Daylilies, hostas, astilbes, and hellebores join the Monarda and seeds I spread around, as well as lily bulbs. It’s coming along very nicely. Our lilac bushes are budding out and, in a week, we’ll be smelling wonderful lilacs.<\/p>\n

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Looking toward planting, Will is spreading rotted manure on our gardens. Much better than chemical fertilizer!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our grape jelly feeder is getting busy. So far, there have been three male Orioles and a female plus many Rose Breasted Grosbeaks and an Indigo Bunting that we’ve seen on it. I love to hear all the bird song this spring. My sister, living in a suburb of Duluth, has had to take her feeders down as she has a black bear visiting too often. She’s jealous of my birds and hopes the bear will move on, finding no food in her yard.<\/p>\n

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Our Oriole is back, and he brought his family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We love spring, the bird song and wildflowers everywhere.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Although we’ve been eating fresh asparagus a lot lately, our three beds are producing more than we can eat and doing it often! This morning, Will went out and brought in a big basket full so I could can it up. We really love it during the winter and late summer when it’s gone to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411"}],"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=10411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10416,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions\/10416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}