{"id":1539,"date":"2011-08-10T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2011-08-10T12:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T16:00:31","slug":"im-being-buried-in-peppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/08\/10\/im-being-buried-in-peppers\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m being buried in peppers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s true, but we’re not complaining. Our hoop house has made a terrific difference in our pepper-growing here on our northern Minnesota homestead. The peppers really love the warmer soil of the night temperatures. Usually when the tomatoes come in for canning, I can barely find enough small peppers to add to my sauces and salsas. This year, that won’t be a problem! I’ve already been canning pickled hot pepper rings and we’ve had all of the peppers we wanted for various recipes like sweet and sour, pepper steak, fried peppers and onions, and one of our favorites: Glop. Basically, glop is fried peppers, onions, mushrooms, seasonings, corn, and tomato sauce — all from the garden and pantry of course. I serve glop with fresh cornbread or buttermilk biscuits. Will said to add glop to the must-have-again-soon list.<\/p>\n

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I’m going to start dehydrating some of my ripest sweet peppers, saving some for stuffed peppers of course. I’ve got several bell peppers that are bigger than two of my fists! They’ll hold a lot of stuffing! We won’t need two for a serving, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I finally got most of the garden weeded and mulched; only the onions to go. I saved out the earliest, weed-free reed canary grass hay for the mulch, and have been working on it for two weeks now. I finished weeding the eleven rows of corn yesterday. That was a job as the pig weed had gotten knee high and was threatening to go to seed. That would be a bad thing because each plant produces trillions of seeds. Yuck. If only my parsnips would germinate as well. We’re getting some ripe tomatoes now; Punta Banda and Early Cascade and our late-planted, direct-seeded cucumbers are finally starting to set cukes. I can’t wait for our first cucumber-tomato-onion salad of the year.<\/p>\n

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Will has been working on our new barn and on fencing the new forty acre pasture. Yesterday, he and Eric, our helper, managed to get posts in on all of the North property line. Then Will took Old Yeller and cleared the last hundred feet or so to meet the fence line along our driveway, where he had already pounded posts. The soil is getting very dry and the pounding is hard, but only a few more hours’ work and the entire fence line will have posts. Then we set about building strong, braced corners and line braces. There’s SO much prep work to do before stretching fence! But by taking shortcuts and making poorly braced corners and leaving out line braces, the wire will not stay tight and sooner or later, animals will get out. So we’re taking more time, doing more work now, in order to have a truly strong, long-lasting fence. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s true, but we’re not complaining. Our hoop house has made a terrific difference in our pepper-growing here on our northern Minnesota homestead. The peppers really love the warmer soil of the night temperatures. Usually when the tomatoes come in for canning, I can barely find enough small peppers to add to my sauces and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539"}],"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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}