{"id":10997,"date":"2025-06-02T13:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10997"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:13:26","slug":"its-still-hot-and-dry-at-the-homestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/06\/02\/its-still-hot-and-dry-at-the-homestead\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s still hot and dry at the homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been planting like crazy every single day, from morning until dark. I got in dozens of 100-foot rows of beans, both pole and bush, quite a few rows of squash, about a half-acre of pumpkins (many of which are sold to our local nursery, The Watering Can), quite a bit of various corn, and some more peppers.<\/p>\n

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I’m planting beans like crazy while Will is tilling another spot for the Hopi Pale Grey squash and Olinka pumpkins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is a flat of Atlantic Giant pumpkins, headed for the North Garden and planting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will’s also been busy \u2014 hauling manure out onto our pastures, re-tilling some of the garden spots, and pounding in steel T-posts to fasten our cattle panel bean trellises on. He also is working on the old haybine, trying to get it into working order as a spare. Unfortunately, as he was heating a bearing, trying to get it loose, it caught the dry hay in the rollers on fire! He tore to the house, hollering at me to get the fire extinguisher, then tore to the bathtub full of water by the chicken coop, that we use as spare water. With the big fire extinguisher and several buckets of water, we got it out without serious damage to the rubber rollers. But both of our hearts were sure beating fast for a while! Keeps life interesting.<\/p>\n

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This little Earthway Seeder sure saves my life. Here, I’m planting another plot of sweet corn for us to eat and can.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I have to run to Mayo Clinic with our friend, Tom, I’m doing double time this weekend, getting ready to be gone for two days. I’ve got to do the laundry, pack a bag, plant more sweet corn and some more beans today. Some days I wish I were triplets! But I know it’ll all get done. Thank God, Will’s so good about taking up my slack. I appreciate him so much!<\/p>\n

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With all the spring work, we still take time to enjoy the fragrance and sight of our beautiful white lilacs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

We’ve been planting like crazy every single day, from morning until dark. I got in dozens of 100-foot rows of beans, both pole and bush, quite a few rows of squash, about a half-acre of pumpkins (many of which are sold to our local nursery, The Watering Can), quite a bit of various corn, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,26,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997"}],"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=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11003,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions\/11003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}