{"id":10600,"date":"2024-09-12T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2024-09-12T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:13:07","slug":"beautiful-warm-fall-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/09\/12\/beautiful-warm-fall-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful, warm fall day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just took a cruise around the gardens and really enjoyed the fragrance of fall leaves. The maples are turning color and other trees and plants are starting to show some fall colors. It’s 77 degrees F out today and boy, am I ever loving it. I drove out to the Wolf Garden and found the cows and horses standing in the shade, totally content, enjoying the weather as well. Even our bull was lying in the trail, chewing his cud as I drove right next to him. He wasn’t going to move a bit. I scratched his chin and drove on by. The tomatoes are still ripening as the vines really weren’t much affected by the frost and none of the tomatoes themselves, had any frost spots. The Hopi Pale Grey squash is looking wonderful under moderately frosted vines. I’ll leave them there to let the ones that are still green finish maturing and allow them to cure on the vine. Nice, big gray squash! And lots of them. Yea!<\/p>\n

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We have a beautiful crop of Hopi Pale Grey squash, our very favorite for all uses!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m astounded that our sweet corn, raised for seed, is doing wonderfully. I pulled a cob of Damaun super sweet corn yesterday and it’s already getting starchy, nearly ready to pull in. There’s lots of it, too! Just like the Simonet and Who Gets Kissed. The Seneca Sunrise was a near casualty of the rain and now the birds. I’m not sure how much seed we can save there. But I am glad to report that even though the second planting of my hybrid, Espresso, sweet corn to can up, is doing well, despite really heavy grass and weed pressure. (I plant hybrid sweet corn so I’m not tempted to eat or can it!)<\/p>\n

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I’m really happy that our sweet corn seed varieties are doing so well despite the crazy weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And I’m thrilled to see our second, very weedy, patch of hybrid sweet corn to can making eating-stage ears.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will’s busy baling up the last (we think, unless there’s a second crop) of our hayfields today. It’s sunny and warm, perfect for haying. Yesterday, I canned up another batch of salsa, which now needs to go down in the pantry. Of course, I’ll be seeding out more tomatoes today, so tomorrow, God willing, I’ll be canning up yet another batch. We love our salsa. I use it in a lot of recipes too. Wow, I’m drooling! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just took a cruise around the gardens and really enjoyed the fragrance of fall leaves. The maples are turning color and other trees and plants are starting to show some fall colors. It’s 77 degrees F out today and boy, am I ever loving it. I drove out to the Wolf Garden and found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9,26,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600"}],"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=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10605,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions\/10605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}