{"id":11631,"date":"2026-06-08T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11631"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:22:05","slug":"we-finally-got-some-rain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/06\/08\/we-finally-got-some-rain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We finally got some rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

After such a long dry period, we were forecast to get some rain. So, yes, we busted butt getting as many plants and seeds into the ground as possible, looking forward to that. I planted watermelon, muskmelon, more squash, and pumpkins in the North Garden, which was all worked up again.<\/p>\n

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Me, planting pumpkin seeds in the North Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately, the weeds liked the half an inch of rain too and seemed to grow several inches overnight! On Sunday, granddaughter, Ava, was confirmed. I drove the 100 miles to son, Bill’s, to go to church with them while Will worked at tilling between the onion rows and also the asparagus row, plus watering what he could from the house well.<\/p>\n

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Wow, I just stumbled on this photo of Will hauling out a “few” rocks from the Sand Garden. It took several trips too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Friends, Sherri and Dara were over on Friday and not only weeded\/planted the peppers in the hoop houses but also weeded the onions and planted spots where the plants had died due to the drought. Yes, they should have been watered. But no, we didn’t do it \u2014 just kept on thinking that tomorrow the forecast rain would come. I had bought several bags of onion sets (on sale too!) from L and M Supply, making it quick to stick them into the ground. Somehow, we will <\/em>have onions!<\/p>\n

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I just had to share this photo of some bacon-wrapped fresh asparagus from dinner on Saturday. Yes, it was that good!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been very happy at the way our beans, corn, and cucumbers are popping up, even without rain, in the Wolf Garden. I’m not sure how that happened, but we’re very glad it did. (See what miracles happen when God’s your gardening partner?)<\/p>\n

As it was supposed to rain last night, as soon as I got home from Ava’s confirmation, I hit the North Garden and planted more corn, melons, and squash. And, yes, it did rain! Whew! I went out after the rain quit this morning but just walking down a row, hoeing in hills for more pumpkins, my feet were huge with clay. Ugh! I’m going to let it dry out a bit before I go back. Our lilacs sure love the rain though. Boy are they ever fragrant! I sleep with the windows open, so I don’t miss a minute of that.<\/p>\n

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Our lilacs are stunning this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I hope everyone gets the rain for their gardens, nice and easy. No big storms or tornadoes! \u2014 Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After such a long dry period, we were forecast to get some rain. So, yes, we busted butt getting as many plants and seeds into the ground as possible, looking forward to that. I planted watermelon, muskmelon, more squash, and pumpkins in the North Garden, which was all worked up again. Unfortunately, the weeds liked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631"}],"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=11631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11637,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions\/11637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}