{"id":11011,"date":"2025-06-10T18:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:14:03","slug":"it-finally-rained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/06\/10\/it-finally-rained\/","title":{"rendered":"It finally rained!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After weeks without rain, we were so very thankful that we had two days and nights with at least a decent partial rain. All totaled, we got about \u00be of an inch. But boy oh boy, what a difference it made. Our first row of beans, Chippewa bush beans, popped up overnight. And, as we’d just kept planting seeds into dust-dry soil, I’m sure many more will soon follow. I’ve got nearly all the beans planted, as well as most of the corn, squash, tomatoes, and peppers.<\/p>\n

In addition to the rain, the temperature also cooled down a lot, making planting so much nicer as the days were cool, cloudy, and moist. Today, I planted five flats of peppers and a big patch of Simonet sweet corn in the Sand Garden. I only have one more batch of Fisher’s Earliest sweet corn left to plant today, in the Wolf Garden. Our friend, Heather, called to say she can come out this afternoon. Gratefully, we’ll have her mulching tomatoes. Will has his work cut out for him, pounding steel T posts for all those tomatoes! Poor Will.<\/p>\n

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Will has his hands full, pounding tomato stakes. I can help by setting cages but I can’t pound posts all day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My solar-powered golf cart sure earns its keep, hauling flats of plants out to the various gardens!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I want to can up some rhubarb. But first comes the planting as we only have about two weeks of planting time to get our longer crops in the ground. After all, we have a very short growing season here in Northern Minnesota. That rhubarb will just have to wait awhile.<\/p>\n

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The rhubarb is just right for canning up. But I’m too busy right now to even think about it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, on the way out to mail seed packages, a big Great Gray Owl flew in front of the car and landed in a nearby tree. He was so beautiful! That’s one of the perks of having a mile and a half long driveway though the woods. You never know what you’ll see.<\/p>\n

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Here’s our neighboring owl. Isn’t he magnificent?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

After weeks without rain, we were so very thankful that we had two days and nights with at least a decent partial rain. All totaled, we got about \u00be of an inch. But boy oh boy, what a difference it made. Our first row of beans, Chippewa bush beans, popped up overnight. And, as we’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11013,"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\/11011"}],"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=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11016,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/11016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}