{"id":11657,"date":"2026-06-22T20:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:51:30","slug":"planting-and-garden-work-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/06\/22\/planting-and-garden-work-never-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting and garden work never ends"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was busy in the North Garden, planting more pumpkins to later sell, Will hauled six loads of rotted manure out to the Wolf Garden then spent the afternoon spreading it between the rows and around each plant. It’s amazing how fast those Hopi Pale Greys seem to grow after applying the manure. I think the warmth of it helps as well as the dark color, which absorbs sunshine too. Today, it’s amazing how lusty and green they look. After only one day!<\/p>\n

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This is the trail to the Wolf Garden. I enjoy driving up it with my solar powered golf cart.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Don’t the Hopi Pale Grey squash look happy, surrounded by lots of manure mulch?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, I went out again to the North Garden and planted more pumpkins, gourds, and sweet corn for us to eat in case what I planted last week fails. It’s always a good idea to have a backup plan when you depend on the food you grow to feed you.<\/p>\n

I’m amazed at the flowers I planted in front of our solar panels! So far, the German Iris and Peonies are outdoing themselves! The colors are so vibrant and beautiful. And the blooms are very large too. The daylilies will bloom after they have stopped so the show will go on.<\/p>\n

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I love the flowers beneath our solar panels!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will went out and laid out all the steel T-posts in the tomato rows. I think he said there are 157 plants this year, half of what we planted last year as Lynn and Jesse are taking over some of the seed saving this year. He had this idea to use the big Kubota to push the posts into the ground. I went ahead of him and stuck the post in place. Then I guided him over the post. It did push in very smoothly. But that big tractor was so hard to maneuver in the narrow main path he stopped and went back for the little Kubota. Unfortunately, that didn’t have enough power or weight to shove the posts in. He did pound quite a few in, but that was kind of scary! After twenty some, I had to quit. All that bending and squatting to pick up the posts was absolutely killing my back and knees. So maybe tomorrow\u2026<\/p>\n

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We had good luck pushing T-posts in with the big Kubota; not so much with the little Kubota.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

While I was busy in the North Garden, planting more pumpkins to later sell, Will hauled six loads of rotted manure out to the Wolf Garden then spent the afternoon spreading it between the rows and around each plant. It’s amazing how fast those Hopi Pale Greys seem to grow after applying the manure. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657"}],"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=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11662,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions\/11662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}