{"id":11004,"date":"2025-06-05T18:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2025-06-05T18:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:22:15","slug":"were-planting-garden-in-just-about-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/06\/05\/were-planting-garden-in-just-about-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re planting garden in just about dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

But we pray daily for a good rain to get things going once it is planted. I went with our friend, Tom, who helped us so much after Bob died, when we were building our log house, as he had another appointment at Mayo Clinic for tests. I had to laugh, as it rained heavily all night and most of the next day. At home, 5\u00bd hours north? Nope. Well, that’s a lie. Will said it rained .003 of an inch, barely enough to wet the ground for an hour. We did get another “rain” yesterday, to the tune of .002 inch. By morning, the ground is dry as a bone. Nope, that didn’t do any good.<\/p>\n

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We keep seeing rain clouds but get no decent rain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, I’m busy again, planting pole beans in the Wolf, North, and Main Gardens. While I was gone, Will put up pole bean trellises in all those gardens for me to plant when I got back. Meanwhile, he also hauled in a big pile of firewood we’d split a week ago in our “spare” time. We have two seasons in Minnesota. Winter and getting ready for winter. Ha ha. As we burn a dozen full cords of wood, we have to start as soon as the weather warms up a little, come spring.<\/p>\n

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While I was gone, Will hauled in a big stack of wood we’d split earlier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been too busy to plant lettuce in my old stock tank planter. I guess the lettuce had another idea. I glanced at the tank which had not been messed with all spring. It was full of both Dark Red Lollo Rossa and Paris Island Romaine plants. Yep, last year’s lettuce had self-seeded! And not only did it reseed in the tank but in the lawn, there were more little lettuce plants. How neat that is!<\/p>\n

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Just look at this lettuce that came back all on its own!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aren’t these lawn lettuce plants cute?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re seeing big flocks of Canadian Geese on our beaver ponds lately. I think they’re being driven out of Canada by the huge wildfires that are sending smoke down over us. I know our eyes are burning and noses are running from it. It can’t be good to breathe \u2014 yuck! I know it’s hard to get those fires out though, as they are in such remote places. We’re praying for a good rain for the fires and our poor gardens. But we’re also gearing up for drought. Will got the big water pump all set and is now working on the small gas pump as we think we’ll have to water the Wolf and North Gardens with them. It’s a lot more work but should save the gardens, pumping out of David’s spring basin and the IBC tote on the back of the pickup.<\/p>\n

Well, back to planting! Have a wonderful day. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But we pray daily for a good rain to get things going once it is planted. I went with our friend, Tom, who helped us so much after Bob died, when we were building our log house, as he had another appointment at Mayo Clinic for tests. I had to laugh, as it rained heavily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004"}],"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=11004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11009,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions\/11009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}