{"id":11120,"date":"2025-08-14T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11120"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:35:08","slug":"and-how-does-the-garden-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/08\/14\/and-how-does-the-garden-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"And how does the garden grow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pretty darned good, despite the drought, heat, and rain, rain, rain. Some crops, like most of the corn, had to be replanted. But now the earliest is starting to tassel. Most of the squash is awesome. And we have some huge <\/em>Olinka naked seeded pumpkins this year \u2014 twice as big as “normal!” The Provider green bush beans are putting out like they always do. I should be picking a big bunch tomorrow to get canned up.<\/p>\n

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These are our Provider green beans. I’ll be canning the first batch soon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An Olinka pumpkin hiding under the leaves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, our friend, Sherri, went and picked a huge batch of chokecherries she didn’t want to use and asked me if I would like them. Heck yes! Then Will went out to the berry patch fence where there are a couple of very productive chokecherries I can’t get to with the golf cart. He came back with another ice cream bucket loaded. I’ll be doing chokecherry syrup tomorrow and the next day, as well as the green beans. Thank God for the Mehu Liisa steam juicer. Using that gives me tons more juice with no work at all but cleaning and setting it up. It does take several hours on the stove, however. (Don’t believe the directions, which say 2 or 3 hours. Twice that!)<\/p>\n

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Every year I throw out our seed business’s year-old seeds when we package up new ones. These are some Gloriosa Daisies along the driveway. Aren’t they gorgeous? The pollinators love them too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had a crazy experience getting our AC compressor in the car repaired. After waiting for an appointment for 2 weeks of very hot weather and only one window that would go down, I went in yesterday. I sat for 3 hours while they put in a new one. Yep, lots of cold air! Yea! To celebrate both Will’s work on the haybine and the car’s getting fixed, we went to China Buffett for dinner. Late, like 8 o’clock. When we got out, it was nearly dark and getting cool. I turned the heater on a bit. Oh oh. No heat<\/em>! Long story short, I took it in and they found out that the NEW compressor they’d put in was defective and not working. Have to put in another one \u2026 in two weeks! Only our luck! It was almost funny. Almost.<\/p>\n

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I just have to share the latest photo my sister, Deb, took of granddaughter, Ava, at her lessons, learning to jump. She’s having such fun too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Pretty darned good, despite the drought, heat, and rain, rain, rain. Some crops, like most of the corn, had to be replanted. But now the earliest is starting to tassel. Most of the squash is awesome. And we have some huge Olinka naked seeded pumpkins this year \u2014 twice as big as “normal!” The Provider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120"}],"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=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11125,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions\/11125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}