{"id":11089,"date":"2025-07-28T18:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11089"},"modified":"2025-07-28T18:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:11:56","slug":"well-summers-cooking-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/07\/28\/well-summers-cooking-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, summer’s cooking us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neither Will nor I like hot weather. Perhaps that’s one reason we live in Northern Minnesota! But boy oh boy have we ever had hot weather lately. It makes getting at those dratted weeds in the garden even harder. Will got the last row of potatoes hilled for the second time and they look great. He did find three potato bugs on them, so I went out and sprayed again with pyrethrins. We don’t want them to get ahead of us again this year. Last year, we fought them until fall! They came in hoards. So far, no blister beetles though!<\/p>\n

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Hondo watching Will till beside the potato rows, which he hilled up the second time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, we went to our friend, Sherri’s house where she, her husband, John, and Dara, had fixed a wonderful Mexican dinner for a late birthday celebration. Oh my, were the carnitas, beans, salsas, pickled onions, rice, and finally, a cherry cheesecake, wonderful! What a great day, among friends and such great food. I’d gone out in the morning, to the Wolf Garden to weed and tuck tomatoes in their cages but by 2 o’clock, when we had to get ready to leave, we were plenty ready to knock it off in the heat for a while. Our car’s AC had gone out and I couldn’t get an appointment until this Friday and only the passenger’s window works, due to a broken wire in the driver’s door that costs like $800 to fix. Nah \u2026 Driving in the heat isn’t pleasant!<\/p>\n

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Although my flower beds are weedy this year, they still continue to astound us daily.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, Will’s finishing up fixing the riding lawnmower as the spindle and blades were shot. (Not only do I mow the lawns with it but also the orchard and sometimes sections of the garden that need it.) When he gets done, he’s going to start haying for the first time this year. Earlier, it rained, rained, and rained, making getting into the fields impossible unless he wanted to bale nasty hay.<\/p>\n

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A view down our driveway, on the way to the mailbox, a mile and a half away. A nature drive, every day!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although our weeds are king in the gardens, so far, we are getting a nice stand of plants, with the first tomato ripe today, a Moravski Div, a small slicer with terrific flavor. Our flower beds are weedy, but the flowers are awesome this year. I can walk along them then hop on the golf cart, head to one of the gardens to weed and feel good; they’re food for the soul.<\/p>\n

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Our first of the year ripe tomatoes, Moravski Div. Yummm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Neither Will nor I like hot weather. Perhaps that’s one reason we live in Northern Minnesota! But boy oh boy have we ever had hot weather lately. It makes getting at those dratted weeds in the garden even harder. Will got the last row of potatoes hilled for the second time and they look great. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089"}],"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=11089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11094,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11089\/revisions\/11094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}