{"id":11862,"date":"2026-10-19T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11862"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:40:08","slug":"its-been-getting-colder-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/10\/19\/its-been-getting-colder-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been getting colder at night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, it was 27 degrees F! Yep, it was supposed to be 30. The hoop houses weren’t heated as we’d spent most of the day splitting wood as the sun was out and we had visitors. We figured, “Well, 30 will be okay.” Oh well, we were wrong. The peppers all froze. Today, we’ll pick all of them, although we were hoping to keep the plants going for a couple more weeks. I need lots of Striped Sugar Rush Peach peppers for my Gaucho relish. Hopefully, our friends, Lynn and Jesse, who now run our seed business, and are coming Saturday to pick up tons of squash, pumpkins, beans, corn, etc. will be bringing some.<\/p>\n

Today, after splitting wood this morning, I’m canning up the last of the apples. Some were pretty little, but I cut them up anyway. Apple crisp, pie, and cake sure sound good, don’t they?<\/p>\n

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This afternoon, I’m canning up the last apples. Yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, I went out and picked the rest of the dry beans, getting quite a few. While I did that, Will pulled another row of onions. They were not very big, but he got a pail full. And I have another pail full that our friend, Heather, pulled last week. We still have two more rows I planted very late, to pull. Yes, most are smaller too. But, heck, they’re better than nothing!<\/p>\n

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The last of the dry beans were picked from the Wolf and Main Gardens and are in the greenhouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tomorrow, I’m canning up the first of the Kuroda carrots. We ate some with a meatloaf the other night and boy were they ever sweet and good! I’ve got a 50-foot row out in the Wolf Garden, so we have a whole lot more waiting for us. Now the nighttime temperatures are going to be higher, in the 40’s and 50’s F, so they’ll be fine for a while.<\/p>\n

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We’ve got another huge pile of firewood in the woodshed to stack, with more to come.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will got the huge pile of firewood stacked and now there’s another huge pile waiting for him. The woodshed is getting full and we split up a bunch of shorter wood for the kitchen range, which is going in the old pig houses. We’re getting there. Such a relief! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, it was 27 degrees F! Yep, it was supposed to be 30. The hoop houses weren’t heated as we’d spent most of the day splitting wood as the sun was out and we had visitors. We figured, “Well, 30 will be okay.” Oh well, we were wrong. The peppers all froze. Today, we’ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,12,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-energy","category-food-preservation","category-seeds","category-self-sufficiency","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=11862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11867,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions\/11867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}