{"id":10614,"date":"2024-09-23T19:05:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T23:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10614"},"modified":"2024-09-23T19:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T23:05:16","slug":"harvest-is-in-full-swing-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/09\/23\/harvest-is-in-full-swing-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest is in full swing now"},"content":{"rendered":"

With fall upon us and frost and freezing not so far away, we’re hauling in the harvest by the crate load. On Saturday, Will went out to the Wolf Garden and cut and crated a whole row of Black Manitoba dry beans while I picked two crates of tomatoes to can up. Yesterday, I sat on the front porch and picked two five-gallon buckets of those bean pods off the vines so they would dry better.<\/p>\n

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Will, bringing in another crate of Black Manitoba bean vines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, some of the folks from the homeschooling group that toured our gardens last week came over to help out and also get some of my books. The big bunch of us made really fast work of harvesting Simonet and Damaun sweet corns. Then we all sat down to husk all those crates of corn ears. It was a real, old-fashioned corn husking bee! What fun. While we husked, we explained a lot of corn lore, from what the silks do, finding corn ear worms, smut of a couple of the ears, and how corn is pollinated. I think everyone learned a lot, plus had fun. Thank you, guys, so much!<\/p>\n

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It’s true, many hands do make light work. Plus, it’s more fun!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Seven crates of corn were husked in short order while we visited.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we took a break, we all pigged out on some Oka muskmelons from the Main Garden. Boy were they ever juicy and sweet! Gee, it’s so tough, saving seeds! You have to eat all those melons. We were supposed to have a chance of frost last night. Will covered the melons but no frost. Thank you, God! Neighboring towns did get light frost though. Now we’re supposed to have another week that’s frost-free. Yea! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With fall upon us and frost and freezing not so far away, we’re hauling in the harvest by the crate load. On Saturday, Will went out to the Wolf Garden and cut and crated a whole row of Black Manitoba dry beans while I picked two crates of tomatoes to can up. Yesterday, I sat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10616,"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\/10614"}],"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=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}