{"id":11041,"date":"2025-06-30T16:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11041"},"modified":"2025-06-30T16:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:44:25","slug":"i-think-were-done-planting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/06\/30\/i-think-were-done-planting\/","title":{"rendered":"I think we’re done planting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally. Well, kind of. I still want to plant some sunflowers and more cucumbers when Will hauls out a couple more trellises for Suyo Long cucumbers to climb on. I like my cucumbers straight and left to grow on the ground the Suyo Longs will twist and turn like so many snakes. They taste the same but it’s harder to slice them nicely and we do love our cucumber salads.<\/p>\n

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Take a peek at the blooming chives in our flower bed. This is after I cut the early batch to dehydrate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had to replant a good chunk of our various corns as, due to the hot, dry weather, then heavy rain, the germination was poor. I’m sure they just started to germinate, then it got dry again and they all shriveled up. The heavy rains did nothing to help them at this point. Oh well, in gardening, some years certain crops do wonderful while others struggle. That’s one reason I can up all I can during those great years; you never know what next year may bring. (Not planning on the zombie apocalypse, just poor growing for some crop or another.)<\/p>\n

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Sherri and her armload of rhubarb from two plants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our rhubarb is fantastic this year. Some of the leaves measure 3\u00bd feet <\/em>across! And many of the stalks are nearly as thick as my wrist. I gave a bunch to our friend, Sherri, to can. Today we went out and pulled a bunch more for me to can and bake with. Lightly pulled from only two plants netted us about 30 pounds worth. Now that’s<\/em>\u00a0impressive! Rhubarb sauce, pies, and cookies, here we go. It’s kind of a celebration of finishing planting all six gardens. Yea!<\/p>\n

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Look how thick these stalks are! And they are very crisp and tender too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Finally. Well, kind of. I still want to plant some sunflowers and more cucumbers when Will hauls out a couple more trellises for Suyo Long cucumbers to climb on. I like my cucumbers straight and left to grow on the ground the Suyo Longs will twist and turn like so many snakes. They taste the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041"}],"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=11041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11045,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions\/11045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}