{"id":10531,"date":"2024-08-01T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10531"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T20:54:06","slug":"looks-like-were-about-done-with-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/08\/01\/looks-like-were-about-done-with-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks like we’re about done with rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

From having daily, and often torrential rain, the gremlins have switched the light switch to drought. And, with it, we’re getting a lot of hot days (for us, you southern gardeners!). We’re spending hours not only weeding but also watering in several of the gardens. This year, the North Garden is nearly a total bust. It has the most clay and was severely impacted by the 10 inches of rain plus more each day. The second planting of corns kind of came up, only to be eaten by the wire worms again this year. We won’t be planting corn out there for a few years. In a small garden you can add beneficial nematodes to take care of them. But on an acre, it would be too expensive. On to plan B. Don’t plant corn out there. They don’t bother beans, pumpkins, and squash.<\/p>\n

Then there are the potato bugs. We are now hand picking them. After powdering and spraying them a couple of times, they’re reduced a lot in numbers. But we can’t let them multiply as they sure do that quickly. The potatoes look awesome this year and we want them to keep it up. We just walk along, pick and squish them. Will uses his hands but I drop them on the ground and squish them with my foot. I’m not squeamish but don’t like the orange guts.<\/p>\n

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Here are some of our dratted potato bugs; rolly polly striped beetles that can fly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Will was busy with me, picking off those fellows and their offspring larvae.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like the North Garden, the corn suffered a lot with the rain. I’ve planted our sweet corn to eat and can twice and, in a few minutes, I’ll go out and do it again in a corner where Will finally managed to eradicate the comfrey, he’d spread by tilling some into the garden from the bed at the edge. I don’t know if it’ll make a crop or not as it’s a 65-day corn, but I do know if you don’t plant it, it will not feed you! The sweet corn in the Wolf Garden also was severely stressed and we had to plant that twice. In one spot, the crows pulled all of it up in one day. Ish! Luckily, I have enough canned corn to last until next year when we hope to have a less challenging corn year.<\/p>\n

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The Wolf Garden suffered from the rain as our twice planted sweet corn for canning failed again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday I was in the front yard, spreading wood chip mulch on a small bed of tulips. The plants had all gone dormant and the bed looked forsaken. I had to laugh as while I was working, both cats came and supervised, even though they don’t really get along. I guess I passed inspection.<\/p>\n

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Buffy and Mittens called a truce when they helped me spread mulch on the flower bed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

From having daily, and often torrential rain, the gremlins have switched the light switch to drought. And, with it, we’re getting a lot of hot days (for us, you southern gardeners!). We’re spending hours not only weeding but also watering in several of the gardens. This year, the North Garden is nearly a total bust. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531"}],"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=10531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10536,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10531\/revisions\/10536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}