{"id":10951,"date":"2025-05-05T18:44:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10951"},"modified":"2025-05-05T18:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:44:57","slug":"weve-hit-the-big-gardens-full-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/05\/05\/weve-hit-the-big-gardens-full-force\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ve hit the big gardens full force"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got some warm, dry days and we’re really at it now. Will tried out the new-to-us manure spreader and I watched as he made his first pass in the Wolf Garden. We have a crate of onion plants heading our way from Texas and want to make sure we’re all ready for them when they come. I wanted them shipped May 12th, but I got an email that they’re on the way. Whooo gotta get crackin’, huh? We were both excited to see, not only did the spreader work but it spread the manure very evenly and finely, on the garden. And, as the Wolf Garden is half a mile from the cow yard, where the piled manure is, we’re thrilled that the new manure spreader is nearly twice the size of our old one. That’s much less travel time, which equals more manure spread on a garden in less time.<\/p>\n

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This is the first bucket load of manure in the new manure spreader.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is the first of many passes; see how nicely it is spreading it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, Will hooked up to the old road grader to grade our driveway as the cow yard and pasture were getting rutted up, as it was still pretty wet. He wanted it to dry out some before spreading more manure. He finished grading it today, and the mile and a half long driveway is in much better shape, with fewer potholes and rough spots.<\/p>\n

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Will, grading the driveway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We were thrilled to see a pair of Trumpeter Swans out on the beaver pond all day yesterday. I’d hoped they might nest there as they sat on the little island for quite a while in the afternoon. But when we got up this morning, they were gone.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a family of Trumpeter swans that were on our pond last year. We love them!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m planting Hopi Pale Grey squash seeds inside when I’m not busy outside. Today, I was helping Will get through the gates in the cow yard as he figured he could bring manure out the front gate and not have to go through the pasture. That worked great. I went ahead of him, with his first load, to the Wolf Garden again. When I got up to the driveway, there was a big fox! Pretty close to the orchard and chickens! But he zipped into the woods nearby. Later, Will saw him heading for the house, stalking something. We were worried it might be Buffy, our cat. I took Hondo with me up there quickly. But we didn’t see the fox, nor Buffy. I was sure glad when a little while later, I spotted Buffy, sitting peacefully up in the sun, on a pile of lumber, in the storage barn. You can bet she’s in the house now! Yes, foxes WILL catch and eat cats, regardless of what some folks on the internet say. And, yes, we love foxes, even though they have snagged a few birds, off and on. Hey, we moved into their neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Our first daffodils are blooming! I discovered some by mistake, looking for Buffy. They are in our hosta bed, and I hadn’t looked over there for a few days. I was pretty surprised to see them. Beautiful! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got some warm, dry days and we’re really at it now. Will tried out the new-to-us manure spreader and I watched as he made his first pass in the Wolf Garden. We have a crate of onion plants heading our way from Texas and want to make sure we’re all ready for them when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951"}],"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=10951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10956,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10951\/revisions\/10956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}