{"id":10435,"date":"2024-06-03T14:32:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2024-06-03T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T18:32:18","slug":"nice-weather-equals-lots-of-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/06\/03\/nice-weather-equals-lots-of-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice weather equals lots of planting"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a few very nice days (except for the mosquitoes and sand flies!) so Will and I were very busy planting. He set up five stock panel trellises and I followed by planting several varieties of pole beans. Yes, pole beans will cross. But I separated species by a trellis, so it went like this: One common bean, one runner bean, one common bean, one runner bean, etc. I also planted four more rows of bush beans between the potato rows and onions. Then, as we don’t have any forecast frost in sight, we set in planting our tomatoes. Whew! We planted six rows, each 100 feet long. I went ahead with the golf cart and tomato plants, then stripped off the lower leaves of each over-grown plant, pulled it out of the cup, made a temporary plastic label and handed it to Will. He had raked a nice spot in the furrow and crawled down the row, planting tomatoes. As they were over-grown, he laid them down, gently curving the stems upward. The roots and much of the naked stem were then buried and the label was put into place. Onward for three days!<\/p>\n

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Will, planting long stemmed tomatoes by laying them in the trench and bending the top upward.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The stems of the buried part will make roots all along it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will was digging in the last furrow when BANG, the middle buster broke the share off. We went home so he could weld it back on and I picked out another (and hopefully last<\/em>) bunch of tomato plants. We’re planting in alphabetical order for better organization later on. After he got it fixed, we went back out to the Wolf Garden. Will dug and dug, finally exposing a huge rock! It’s the size of two 100-pound sacks of grain. No way to get that out of the ground by hand. He went and brought the Kubota into the garden and dug with it. Finally, it came rolling out of the hole. He carried it to our boulder pile outside the garden, filled in the hole, then tilled the area. Then, hooking up the middle buster furrower to the Ford, he finished up the trench that was only partially dug.<\/p>\n

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This is the big boulder Will dug out of the tomato row!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By evening, we had planted the very last tomato. Yea! Today, it’s raining a bit and is supposed to rain all day. Perfect! It doesn’t take much to make homesteaders very happy.<\/p>\n

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With the warmth and rain, our flowers are awesome.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

We had a few very nice days (except for the mosquitoes and sand flies!) so Will and I were very busy planting. He set up five stock panel trellises and I followed by planting several varieties of pole beans. Yes, pole beans will cross. But I separated species by a trellis, so it went like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435"}],"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=10435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10440,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10435\/revisions\/10440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}