{"id":11096,"date":"2025-07-30T16:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11096"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:27:57","slug":"ahhh-its-cooled-off-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/07\/30\/ahhh-its-cooled-off-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahhh, it’s cooled off finally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will’s busy haying as there’s a dry week ahead (we hope the forecasters are right), so he’s trying to make up for lost time while it rained every couple of days. Busy, busy, busy! Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I’m trying to get the last of the cherry tomatoes weeded and tucked into their cages. The big branches always seem to want to spread out and visit their neighbors. Not wanting them to cross pollinate, I either tuck the wayward branches back into the cages or prune them off. We’re already seeing lots and lots of big tomatoes that are starting to turn color. Summer’s officially here at Seed Treasures!<\/p>\n

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Here’s some of the tomatoes, all caged in and growing like mad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our friend, Matt, and his son, Finnegan, came this morning to help in the gardens, bless them. Matt’s busy mulching the last of the Hopi Pale Grey squash vines. Will did the Olinka seedless pumpkins in the next row and it’s simply amazing how much better they do with the mulch added. The vines and leaves are much bigger and so rampant! We love our mulch. Thanks Matt and Finnegan!<\/p>\n

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We were happy to see Matt and Finnegan this morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, I was looking at some of our chokecherry trees and was happy to see they have tons of cherries on them this year. Last year, there were none, due to that darned late spring frost. I’ll be making a lot of chokecherry syrup to have on pancakes, waffles, and more. I’ve already got lots of jelly in the pantry. We like variety around here. So much for those “survivalists” with their pantry containing just beans and rice. Yuck! I’d sure get tired of that, for sure.<\/p>\n

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I’m happy to have chokecherries ripening this year after none last year. They get very dark, nearly black, when ripe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Will’s busy haying as there’s a dry week ahead (we hope the forecasters are right), so he’s trying to make up for lost time while it rained every couple of days. Busy, busy, busy! Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I’m trying to get the last of the cherry tomatoes weeded and tucked into their cages. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,26,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096"}],"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=11096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11101,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions\/11101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}