{"id":1296,"date":"2011-05-17T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2011-05-17T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T07:00:06","slug":"the-garden-is-going-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/05\/17\/the-garden-is-going-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The garden is going in!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tilled the entire garden a couple of weeks ago, to work in the rotted manure Will dumped on it last fall. Then a week ago, I did it again. It’s amazing how nice our rocky, sandy soil has become in just a few years! I set in another row of asparagus, next to our old row, in the garden, then got busy this weekend and put in two pounds of yellow onion sets. I plant them in a wide bed, making three rows about five inches apart, in all directions. They seem to do well that way and only require a couple of hand weedings during the summer.<\/p>\n

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I also planted a big bed of peas, about 20-feet long and 15-feet wide. They will help add nitrogen to the soil and we can pick, eat, and can the peas the vines make, too. We like that!<\/p>\n

Because David was home Sunday, we put the plastic on the tall hoop house Will made. It was a little breezy, but the plastic went on very well despite the wind. Now it stands ready for peppers; but last night it was 24 degrees, so it won’t be very soon.<\/p>\n

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Today we’re starting to set out tomatoes, protected in Wallo\u2019 Waters, of course. We won’t have any dependable frost-free days until the second week in June. So we increase our growing season with those water-filled plastic tipis. And our tomatoes love ’em! It does take awhile to set the 76 units, filling them one at a time with water. But we definitely feel it is worth it, considering our huge harvests.<\/p>\n

We’ve got a real busy June coming up. David graduates and has a get-together here on June 5th. Will and I will be married on June 11th and the next Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, we’re off to man the Backwoods Home Magazine’s booth at the Energy Fair in Custer, Wisconsin! So we’re trying to get as much done ahead of time as possible. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tilled the entire garden a couple of weeks ago, to work in the rotted manure Will dumped on it last fall. Then a week ago, I did it again. It’s amazing how nice our rocky, sandy soil has become in just a few years! I set in another row of asparagus, next to our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"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=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}