{"id":11140,"date":"2025-08-26T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11140"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:10:00","slug":"oh-boy-fall-is-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/08\/26\/oh-boy-fall-is-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh boy, fall is in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a week of 80-degree weather, we dropped down to lows of 36 F! Boy, were we worried it would frost. When you have 5 acres in gardens, there’s no covering anything, so we just prayed like crazy. In the mornings it was cold, but nothing frosted. Just two miles away from us, it was white on the ground! That’s close.<\/p>\n

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The gardens are lush now; however, harvesting is late due to crazy weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As we’ve had such a crazy growing year, everything is late. Tomatoes, corn, peppers, beans \u2014 everything. As I had to replant the corn, we’re sweating it to make mature seed by frost. Usually, we don’t get a killing frost until about the first week of October. I don’t know about this year though\u2026<\/p>\n

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There are lots of green tomatoes, but they are slow to ripen due to the rain and cloudy days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It stopped raining and Will started cutting hay again. He made two rounds of a field, and the bearing went out of the haybine. We called around and nobody local had the right one. His haying friend had a few but they were the wrong size. We ordered a few online and via phone, hoping one might get here in a day or two. There’s always something.<\/p>\n

I picked more tomatoes and will be seeding them this afternoon. I’ll also be canning up more tomato sauce or salsa. I haven’t made up my mind which yet.<\/p>\n

Our potato vines are starting to die down and the onions are starting to tip over. It won’t be long before we get them harvested now. Both look like they’ll make a good show.<\/p>\n

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I really love these pretty Glads that I planted among the tomatoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year, I bought a few gladiolus bulbs and planted them in the tomato rows. They’re flowering now and sure look gorgeous.<\/p>\n

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Kim wants to see our flower beds. Here’s the one in front of the greenhouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

After a week of 80-degree weather, we dropped down to lows of 36 F! Boy, were we worried it would frost. When you have 5 acres in gardens, there’s no covering anything, so we just prayed like crazy. In the mornings it was cold, but nothing frosted. Just two miles away from us, it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8,9,26,12,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140"}],"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=11140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11145,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions\/11145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}