{"id":10587,"date":"2024-09-05T22:03:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T02:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10587"},"modified":"2024-09-05T22:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T02:03:01","slug":"weve-got-a-frost-warning-for-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/09\/05\/weve-got-a-frost-warning-for-friday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ve got a frost warning for Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy cow, from the eighties down to 33 degrees F, forecast for Friday night\/Saturday morning. It’s been a very challenging summer for the gardens so far and we sure didn’t need that. We’ve still got a lot of crops that are not mature enough to pull in or handle a frost. And, with 6 gardens on 5 acres, we sure can’t cover everything. So, we pray. And work like heck, pulling in hundreds of pounds of tomatoes, both for seed saving and to make into various tomato recipes to can. We also went to town when it poured rain and bought several big plastic tarps to cover what we can.<\/p>\n

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Will is holding one of our nice Bill Bean tomatoes. We love them so much!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Heather with one of our crates of tomatoes, boxed and labeled for ease of seed saving.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the rain quit, our friend, Heather, came over and we girls went out and picked seven crates of tomatoes for us and also three buckets of tomatoes for her to take home to her family. We always enjoy working together and today was very nice. Except for the specter of that frost hovering over everything. (All those wonderful tomatoes might go to waste if it freezes too hard!) Then there’s Brad, the PBS fellow, who was going to come out on Monday to photograph harvesting tomatoes. If we get a frost, there won’t be much to take pictures of. I emailed him and perhaps he can come out tomorrow \u2026 before the frost hits us and makes everything droopy and black. Pray hard for us, everyone!<\/p>\n

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I used our solar powered golf cart so much yesterday when we had a homeschool group tour that today poor Heather had to push it home. I switched to the atv!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Holy cow, from the eighties down to 33 degrees F, forecast for Friday night\/Saturday morning. It’s been a very challenging summer for the gardens so far and we sure didn’t need that. We’ve still got a lot of crops that are not mature enough to pull in or handle a frost. And, with 6 gardens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587"}],"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=10587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10591,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587\/revisions\/10591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}