{"id":10447,"date":"2024-06-11T18:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T22:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10447"},"modified":"2024-06-11T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T22:28:04","slug":"were-still-planting-like-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/06\/11\/were-still-planting-like-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re still planting like crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

With five acres of garden for our seed business and our own use, you can imagine just how busy both Will and I are during this two-week period when nearly all our crops must be gotten in to avoid that inevitable fall frost, which comes way too early most years. While I’ve been planting watermelon, muskmelon, and squash plants, Will has been driving in all those steel T posts to support our tomatoes and their cages. Boy is he ever sore! That is a lot of posts, plus those needed for our pole bean trellises. Besides setting in the plants, I cleaned out the surplus tomatoes after giving a lot away to friends and neighbors and planted row upon row of sweet corn, popcorn, and more bush beans by the dozens. He’s now mulching around those many tomatoes.<\/p>\n

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No wonder Will is sore. He pounded in a LOT of T posts in two days!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Today, Will’s busy mulching tomatoes, prior to setting cages on them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, I’ve planted our front flower bed with more hostas, the cannas I potted up earlier this spring, and some dahlias I had also started. This afternoon, I’ll be setting out some very nice pepper plants in the Main Garden. We’re so tickled at how wonderful that soil is now. Starting out with sand and lots and lots of very big rocks (I mean truckloads of them!), the dirt is now fluffy black, fertile soil. So beautiful to work in and just look at! That came about by picking rocks for years and adding tons of rotted manure. It sure paid off!<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Will tilled the Sand and Central Gardens again. So, I’ll be planting more sweet corn, melons, squash, and beans down there. We have so many isolated gardens to keep our varieties pure. I am so very grateful to have that solar-powered golf cart to run around in. We’ve only had to put it on the charger two times this year, so far. I think that’s so cool \u2014 and handy!<\/p>\n

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My little solar powered golf cart sure saves lots of fuel and steps as some of our gardens are half a mile from the house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our first beans are up in the Wolf Garden. With the intermittent rain we’ve been having plus the warmth, everything should germinate very quickly this year.<\/p>\n

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Our first beans are up! (Gee, I THOUGHT those rows were straight!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

With five acres of garden for our seed business and our own use, you can imagine just how busy both Will and I are during this two-week period when nearly all our crops must be gotten in to avoid that inevitable fall frost, which comes way too early most years. While I’ve been planting watermelon, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447"}],"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=10447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10452,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10447\/revisions\/10452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}