{"id":10469,"date":"2024-06-27T18:26:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T22:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10469"},"modified":"2024-06-27T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T22:27:21","slug":"finally-the-rain-has-stopped-temporarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/06\/27\/finally-the-rain-has-stopped-temporarily\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, the rain has stopped \u2026 Temporarily"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the gardens were still pretty wet from the torrential rain we experienced last week, I was able to get all of our pepper plants into the ground. Will followed, mulching first with rotted manure, then with hay. The tomatoes look so nice and healthy, all caged, staked, and mulched. Some have already got some tomatoes set on the plants.<\/p>\n

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I managed to get all the pepper plants in the wet ground and Will got them mulched.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our tomatoes look great, all caged, staked, and mulched in the Wolf Garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, yesterday, the soil had dried up enough in the Wolf and North Gardens that Will was able to till them with the tractor mounted tiller. He switched the four-foot tiller that came with our Kubota tractor with the five-foot King Kutter we had previously used as the one that came with the Kubota keeps breaking tines. The old King Kutter has never broken one, even though we used it as a first tiller on some very rocky gardens. He was able to till most of both gardens. They are a bit clay-lumpy so we let the ground dry out for the afternoon and night and he’s going to re-till them today so, hopefully, we can plant some corn with the two-row corn planter. A bit late but in homesteading, you do what you can do, when you can do it! And pray for a late fall.<\/p>\n

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After tilling the soaked, dried, rock hard, part clay soil, Will turned it into nice, fluffy dirt, needing one more pass to get it ready to plant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While I was busy mowing our big lawns with the riding mower, Will fired up the TroyBilt tiller and got busy tilling the beans, carrots, beets, and onions in the Wolf Garden. It looks very nice, I think! I replanted some of the washed-out sweet corn and it looks like a couple rows of beans need it, as well. But that’s what you do. Never quit!<\/p>\n

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Today is hot and sunny. Will took the opportunity to till between the rows in the Wolf Garden to get ahead of the weeds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

While the gardens were still pretty wet from the torrential rain we experienced last week, I was able to get all of our pepper plants into the ground. Will followed, mulching first with rotted manure, then with hay. The tomatoes look so nice and healthy, all caged, staked, and mulched. Some have already got some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469"}],"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=10469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10475,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10469\/revisions\/10475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}