{"id":10501,"date":"2024-07-16T18:14:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T22:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10501"},"modified":"2024-07-16T18:14:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T22:14:53","slug":"with-less-frequent-rains-and-hot-weather-were-on-the-upswing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/07\/16\/with-less-frequent-rains-and-hot-weather-were-on-the-upswing\/","title":{"rendered":"With less frequent rains and hot weather, we’re on the upswing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll swear we were having so much rain I felt like my toes were growing webs! Yuck. And rain makes tons of mosquitoes appear too. But lately, we have had a little rain, but not torrents and hot, dry weather in between. Some of our crops had suffered from too much rain and\/or not fertile enough soil in the new part of the Wolf Garden. Will thought about it and made a bulk liquid manure bin. He had an old heavy rock box that fits on the three point of the tractor. Into that, he set an old plastic tote that, years ago, I found on the roadside, with the top broken. We’d used it for a watering bin for our pigs several years ago and then it just sat in the grass after the pigs had been sold. The top had been cut off, removing the cracked parts earlier. He set the plastic tote bin inside the rock box and ran a ratchet strap around it to hold it in place. Then he put a bucket load of very rotted manure with no hay in it, in the bin and filled it with water. Using a five-gallon plastic bucket, he dipped the manure tea out of the bin and watered rows of onions and beans with it. Very slick! The goop in the bottom, he dipped out and side-dressed some corn and beans.<\/p>\n

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This is the manure tea bin Will put together. Pretty cool!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Will spread manure tea along the rows of onions, corn, and beans that needed fertilizer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, our friends Sherri and Dara came by to help weed. That’s so appreciated! Everything looks good out there but the sweet corn, which was planted in clumpy clay soil. It is germinating irregularly because some can’t get through the clumps. Oh well, every year is challenging in one way or another. Will tells me he again saw potato bugs on the potatoes. Eeek! That’s after dusting them two times already. I guess I know what I’ll be doing this afternoon.<\/p>\n

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With our friends’ help, our garden is getting weeded and mulched.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Granddaughter, Ava, went to her second horse show this past Sunday. Her instructor is a Tennessee Walking Horse breeder, and the show was a Walking Horse show. Ava entered three classes and won two blues and a red (two first places and a second place). She looks so good on a horse, especially when she smiles. We’re real proud of her!<\/p>\n

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Granddaughter, Ava, winning another first at her second horse show. We’re very proud of her!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

I’ll swear we were having so much rain I felt like my toes were growing webs! Yuck. And rain makes tons of mosquitoes appear too. But lately, we have had a little rain, but not torrents and hot, dry weather in between. Some of our crops had suffered from too much rain and\/or not fertile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501"}],"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=10501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10506,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501\/revisions\/10506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}