{"id":11639,"date":"2026-06-11T14:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11639"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:31:58","slug":"we-are-finally-getting-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/06\/11\/we-are-finally-getting-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"We are finally getting rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

After planting and planting while watching the weather forecast diligently several times a day, it finally rained. A whole half an inch! Boy, were we ever grateful! But the next day, the sun came out and it was in the 80s so, in the afternoon, I planted the leftover Bill Bean and Shady Bill tomatoes in the leftover furrow in the last tomato row. We have always run out of Bill Bean seeds. It seems everyone loves it and are amazed at how big <\/em>they are, as well as super tasty. Last fall, I saved twice as many seeds as the year before, but a month ago, we ran out. This year, I started 15 Bill Bean plants and 10 Shady Bill (a cross between Blue Beauty and Bill Bean) and will be sure to save tons of seeds for Lynn and Jesse.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday was a tilling and weeding day. Here’s Will, tilling between the bean rows, which miraculously germinated in the dry soil.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Tuesday, our friend Dara came and spent the morning weeding and planting onion sets where the onion plants had died in the drought. We are so grateful for her help!<\/p>\n

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Dara is weeding and replanting the vacant spots in the onion rows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I planted lots of peppers yesterday, as more rain was in the forecast, possibly severe storms with hail. I prayed over every one, that we didn’t get the hail, but would get the rain. As I planted the last flat, I could hear thunder and a few drops of rain were coming down. I didn’t want to get hit by lightning, so I packed up the golf cart and headed home. I’d just gotten there when it started pouring rain. Will and I sat on the front porch, watching the rain pour off the roof. It was still nearly 90 degrees F, so, for a while, it was pretty humid. Then the rain cooled it off nicely. Ahhh, very nice!<\/p>\n

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And down came the rain!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This morning I went out to the greenhouse, thinking I’d better plant some bell peppers as well as hot peppers. Oh oh! Guess who forgot to plant King of the North or Early Red Bell? I’m sure glad Lynn and Jesse did plant them. As I use them in all my mixed “Cowboy” relishes, I stopped in Cook this morning and bought three four packs of King of the North. I came home and planted them in the leftover part of the tomato row where the leftover Bill Beans and Shady Bills had been planted. I have room for four more, which I’ll pick up the next time I go to town. The gardens are nearly filled up but we have to plant more potatoes, which I’ve got cut up and sitting in a bucket on the front porch. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After planting and planting while watching the weather forecast diligently several times a day, it finally rained. A whole half an inch! Boy, were we ever grateful! But the next day, the sun came out and it was in the 80s so, in the afternoon, I planted the leftover Bill Bean and Shady Bill tomatoes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639"}],"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=11639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11643,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11639\/revisions\/11643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}