{"id":10984,"date":"2025-05-22T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:57:57","slug":"with-dry-weather-were-getting-lots-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/05\/22\/with-dry-weather-were-getting-lots-done\/","title":{"rendered":"With dry weather, we’re getting lots done"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of our vegetable seeds that get planted inside have been planted. Now, we’re busy outside. Yesterday, Will tilled the Main Garden with the little Kubota. As there are tight areas, you have to lift the tiller and back up. To back the Kubota up, you have to press down on a foot pedal. Really hard! My sore knees just don’t want to do that yet, so Will took care of that job.<\/p>\n

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Will, tilling the Main Garden. Check out the rhubarb \u2014 pies soon!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mittens keeps an eye on Will to make sure he does things right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But, when he was finished, I took it out to the larger, squarer, Wolf Garden and tilled all afternoon. I had expected the lower side to be more moist. It wasn’t. In fact, it was kind of dry. Oh oh! Is that a sign of summer drought? There’s no forecast of rain in the ten-day forecast. We had a frost advisory for last night, again tonight, and another the next. Seedlings off the back deck have to be carried out in the morning and back inside in the evening. Out for sun and hardening off, in for frost protection.<\/p>\n

Today I helped Will haul manure. I’m the gate guy, keeping the cows in when they’d love to be out munching on all that green pasture. But we want to let it get taller and make those cows eat up some of the leftover hay, which we have plenty of. That hay’s a good thing, especially if we’re facing another drought. The hay crop will be shorter, we’re thinking. When Will was away with the manure, spreading on the Wolf pasture, half a mile from the house, I drove the golf cart next to the fence between the cow and horse pastures. The electric wire gets knocked down by winter deer and needed fixing up. It won’t be long before the horses get put back in their own pasture after spending the winter with the cows. We like them with the cows as they protect them from the wolves, especially new calves. Our mule, Domino, is fierce when it comes to anything canine! She would eat a wolf right up. Seriously!<\/p>\n

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We really enjoy all of our bird visitors like this Rose-breasted Grosbeak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After Will gets done hauling manure today, I want to hop on the little Kubota and till the North Garden again. The tiny weeds are just starting to show up and I love killing them dead. Again. We’ll till one more time in a couple of weeks and then get to planting everything in all six gardens. Whew! But we sure love spring! All the green, the Hummingbirds, Orioles, Grosbeaks, and other bird visitors, the fragrance of wild fruit blooms, and hope of a great gardening year. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of our vegetable seeds that get planted inside have been planted. Now, we’re busy outside. Yesterday, Will tilled the Main Garden with the little Kubota. As there are tight areas, you have to lift the tiller and back up. To back the Kubota up, you have to press down on a foot pedal. Really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10986,"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\/10984"}],"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=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10989,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions\/10989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}