{"id":11147,"date":"2025-09-02T12:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11147"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:23:42","slug":"we-hope-everyone-had-a-happy-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/09\/02\/we-hope-everyone-had-a-happy-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"We hope everyone had a happy Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

We laugh because we were laboring harder yesterday than usual. You see we have Arctic cold dropping down on us on Wednesday night. They’re even calling for snow. Ugh! I sure hope it doesn’t freeze as we still have a ton of garden produce out there that’s not ripe yet.<\/p>\n

We did pull in our onions, which are now laying out on the greenhouse tables to cure. Not because of the cold but because the dratted weeds were too big and beginning to go to seed. We sure don’t need more <\/em>weeds next year. I mowed them off then Will took the baby Kubota out there yesterday and tilled them under. We wanted to till them before the weed seeds matured. We had really weedy onions but we were very happy for the nice harvest we did get \u2014 five big crates full. Sherri was here to pull onions. Thank God for Sherri! I sent her home with a crate full. Most of the onions were nice sized, which made us happy. The onion patch sure looks bare, all tilled and clean, after so many weeds.<\/p>\n

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These are today’s leftover tomato pieces after I took out the seeds to dry for our seed business.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is the batch of roasted tomato salsa I made last week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today I’m seeding tomatoes like mad, trying to get ahead of that cold snap. I did a whole bunch of different varieties then went out and picked about 25 pounds of assorted tomatoes that I already have plenty of seeds saved. I’ll be adding the 25 pounds to the roasting pan with tomato pieces and then roasting them along with some onions, garlic, and sweet peppers for salsa tomorrow. I sure like using as much as I can, not just blowing the leftover pieces out onto the field like big seed companies do. Waste not; want not was Mom’s favorite saying. I’ve sure picked that one up. And with the increasing prices at the grocery (and other) stores, I really feel the need to stock up.<\/p>\n

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Another flower bed for Kim. : )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

We laugh because we were laboring harder yesterday than usual. You see we have Arctic cold dropping down on us on Wednesday night. They’re even calling for snow. Ugh! I sure hope it doesn’t freeze as we still have a ton of garden produce out there that’s not ripe yet. We did pull in our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147"}],"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=11147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11152,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions\/11152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}