{"id":1637,"date":"2011-09-07T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2011-09-07T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:45:15","slug":"frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/09\/07\/frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Frost!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, we had it &#8212; a killing frost. With night temps dipping into the twenties, the garden got fried. Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, beans, and corn look so sad, all blackened and droopy. But, luckily, the fruits didn&#8217;t get damaged. We knew it was coming (although not how bad it actually got) and got up at 5:30 am to turn on all of our sprinklers in the garden to (hopefully) protect it from &#8220;possible&#8221; frost. Maybe that saved the fruit&#8230;maybe not. But at least we can harvest what&#8217;s left.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Frost-tomatoes.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1638\" title=\"Frost-tomatoes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Frost-tomatoes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The peppers, in the hoop house, were another story. Outside the door, a volunteer tomato sustained light damage. Inside, the peppers look great &#8212; no damage at all. And the house wasn&#8217;t even closed up tight! What a difference that plastic makes! I&#8217;m still harvesting huge, thick peppers by the basket.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/No-frost-peppers.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1639\" title=\"No-frost-peppers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/No-frost-peppers.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been canning heavy duty for a couple of weeks now, so we&#8217;re not in panic mode. But I&#8217;m still canning at least two products every day. Yesterday it was spaghetti sauce with mushrooms and mixed corn and tomatoes. Today it&#8217;s more plain corn and sweet relish. I try to mix up and do one water bath food and one pressure canned one so I can work them in together and only can one at a time while getting the other ready to go. That way I don&#8217;t mix up times or get too harried.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Tomatoes-corn.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1640\" title=\"Tomatoes-corn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Tomatoes-corn.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, canning is work, but then you get to eat all that great food for months and years to come! It&#8217;s definitely worth it! I&#8217;ll stack our homegrown, organic, fresh-picked, home-canned foods against any gourmet foods at any supermarket! And no added chemicals. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, we had it &#8212; a killing frost. With night temps dipping into the twenties, the garden got fried. Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, beans, and corn look so sad, all blackened and droopy. But, luckily, the fruits didn&#8217;t get damaged. We knew it was coming (although not how bad it actually got) and got up at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"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=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}