{"id":10538,"date":"2024-08-06T17:37:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T21:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10538"},"modified":"2024-08-06T17:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T21:37:22","slug":"finally-our-thirsty-gardens-got-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/08\/06\/finally-our-thirsty-gardens-got-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, our thirsty gardens got rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Will was hoping for no <\/em>rain so he could get into the hayfield, it clouded up very dark and soon began to rain \u2014 then pour! I can’t say I was sad though as our poor gardens were getting stressed from lack of moisture. Four of them we can water easily. One a little harder and two (the North and Wolf Gardens) very hard to get water to, being they’re half a mile from the house. We watched the rain pour off the house, knowing the gardens were soaking it up happily. When it quit, we went out and got busy, continuing to weed. It seems weeds thrive in a drought!<\/p>\n

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We watched the rain pour off the roof with smiles on our faces, thinking of the thirsty gardens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, our friends, Dara and Sherri, came and went to work again weeding the long carrot rows. They weeded them a few weeks ago but the darned weeds came back with a vengeance. We ran out of the Reed Canary grass hay we use for mulch so Will hauled out several bales of regular clover\/grass hay to mulch the tomatoes. Unfortunately, it had some seeds, which germinated in the hay and boy do we have weeds in the tomato rows this year! It is beyond pulling them. Will took the old push lawnmower out there and started mowing in-between the rows. That made them look much better and is sure to stunt the weeds’ growth. I’ve got to get out there and trim some of the long tomato branches, so the different varieties don’t cross. We’ve found that if the flowers don’t rub together, we very seldom have any crossing, even though they’re planted six feet apart. Will and I are busy trying to weed the jalape\u00f1os in the Sand Garden. They kind of got left behind when other work needed us and now, they’re pretty weedy. And I want to make tons more Cowboy Candy!<\/p>\n

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We were so thankful for our friends, Dara and Sherri, coming today to help weed. (Now if they were just quadruplets!) They always make a big dent in the weeds!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Will, mowing between the tomato rows to knock down the weeds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our flowers are rewarding us with a bounty of blooms, especially the lilies in the backyard. Although they’re toxic to cats, we have never had a problem. Maybe it’s because the cats don’t spend much time out there and they don’t eat the lilies or hang around to get pollen on their coats. I’m trying to get the flower beds all mulched with wood chips and it’s going slowly but surely.<\/p>\n

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I’m trying to get all our flower beds mulched with wood chips and our lilies love the care.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The melons are slow this year, but we’ve found some as big as a softball. That’s encouraging! We’re praying for a late fall so things can get caught up. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although Will was hoping for no rain so he could get into the hayfield, it clouded up very dark and soon began to rain \u2014 then pour! I can’t say I was sad though as our poor gardens were getting stressed from lack of moisture. Four of them we can water easily. One a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538"}],"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=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10543,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions\/10543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}