{"id":10429,"date":"2024-05-31T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10429"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:20:33","slug":"despite-frost-advisories-weve-started-planting-in-earnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/05\/31\/despite-frost-advisories-weve-started-planting-in-earnest\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite frost advisories, we’ve started planting in earnest"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’d planned on getting started yesterday but Will came in from checking the cows saying we had a new bull calf. Sarge had found him, lying in the edge of the woods while the herd was grazing nearby. As he was a bull, Will wanted help to get him caught and castrated as after the calves are a couple of days old, you can’t hardly catch them. I went out but the mama kept walking away from us with junior trotting beside her. Finally, they went into the woods and the calf tripped on some brush. Luckily Will was nearby and pounced on the calf. With the deed done, he yelled for me to come give him his tetanus shot. (The calf, not Will!) We don’t want to take a chance of the calves getting tetanus following banding. Will set him down and he trotted back to mom, none the worse for the wear.<\/p>\n

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Meet Sunny, our newest calf, only hours old.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Will, walking away from Sunny, who I think is giving him the stink eye.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, after another frost advisory that didn’t pan out for our area \u2014 thankfully \u2014 we began our two-week planting session. We have such a short season, we have to get at it just as soon as we possibly can, safely. Those darned, sneaky frosts can sure pop up on us unexpectedly! Will put the middle buster, a kind of small, single plow, that goes on the three point of the tractor, on the Ford and went out to the Wolf Garden to dig furrows for planting our potatoes. That works so slick. The furrows go in quickly, then I drop in the potatoes. Will follows up on foot with a hoe, pulling the dirt in to cover them from one side of the furrow. The other hump of dirt on the other side is saved for hilling the plants as they grow taller.<\/p>\n

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Using the middle buster furrower, Will quickly dug trenches for our potatoes and, later on, tomatoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I follow the tractor, setting out potatoes in three 100-foot rows. We like our potatoes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We use this simple tool to dig trenches to plant our tomato plants and have also dug ditches to run our irrigation lines. What a labor saver! We don’t mind work a bit but try to work smarter, not harder. Today we got in three 100-foot rows of potatoes plus five furrows for the tomatoes. I’ve still got a couple of hours so I’ll take the Earthway push seeder out and see how many bush beans I can get in before the bugs get too bad. Rain’s forecast for this evening. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’d planned on getting started yesterday but Will came in from checking the cows saying we had a new bull calf. Sarge had found him, lying in the edge of the woods while the herd was grazing nearby. As he was a bull, Will wanted help to get him caught and castrated as after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429"}],"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=10429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10434,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10429\/revisions\/10434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}