{"id":11173,"date":"2025-09-15T13:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11173"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:25:41","slug":"our-fall-weather-is-helping-with-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/09\/15\/our-fall-weather-is-helping-with-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Our fall weather is helping with harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been very busy the last few days, pulling in more dry beans to shell out. I’m talking about 5-gallon buckets plumb full and several of them. Thank God, my knees have been slowly getting better, allowing me to both sit down on a camp stool to pick bush beans and to walk and stand next to the pole bean trellises to pick a long row. Mostly, I’m picking just the dry and leathery pods off the bushes\/vines. But some like the Chippewa, have completely dried down so I pull the plants and pick the multitude of pods off, discarding the bushes behind me in the row.<\/p>\n

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Some of our Brita’s Foot Long beans, drying on the trellises.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will finished patching up the cow yard fence so it’s all ready to hold the cattle in for winter. It’s always great to have yet another project finished! I was finally able to lend a hand as my knees were feeling better.<\/p>\n

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Will, finishing up the cow yard fence repairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will got the bearing in the haybine replaced then cut a big field. Yesterday, he went to another farm, planning on cutting all three big fields. Well, as they say, plans of mice and men \u2026 A different bearing came apart, the one on the end of the rollers this time. Fortunately, he has a parts haybine that has an okay bearing on it. But he also has a little bracket welding to do and is champing at the bit, wanting to get to cutting before rain starts again.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, the birds are starting to get at some of our sweet corn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday I went out to check the corn in the Wolf Garden while I planned on picking more beans. Oh oh! The darned birds are at the sweet corn. So, I went back and grabbed paper lunch sacks, the stapler and a box of staples. I first tried just pulling the long leaf off each cob and slipping a bag over the ear and stapling it. Then I learned to be smarter. I sat in the golf cart, stapling several bags. Then I put them in my 5-gallon bucket. I went out and pulled off the big leaf on several ears, went back and got my bucket of bags and slipped one over each ear. I’ve learned that if I pull the bag down, then gently pull the ear down, away from the stalk a bit, the bag gets pinched between the ear and stalk, holding it firmly in place, even in a strong wind. The birds have never gotten through the bags to eat the corn.<\/p>\n

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Putting paper lunch sacks over the ears keeps the birds away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was working at this when I heard voices. Our friends, Matt and Jordan and the kids popped in to visit and quickly offered to help me bag corn ears. What a huge thank you I owe them!<\/p>\n

I’ve got a partial bucket of Crawford beans to shell out this morning then I’m moving on to seeding out tomatoes. I’ve got lots waiting on the porch for me! It’s such a pretty day. Low 70’s with a blue sky and nice breeze carrying fall scents through the air. We’re so blessed to have this homestead! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been very busy the last few days, pulling in more dry beans to shell out. I’m talking about 5-gallon buckets plumb full and several of them. Thank God, my knees have been slowly getting better, allowing me to both sit down on a camp stool to pick bush beans and to walk and stand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,26,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173"}],"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=11173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11178,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11173\/revisions\/11178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}