{"id":2292,"date":"2012-06-05T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2012-06-05T12:19:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T16:19:27","slug":"im-filling-up-the-hoop-house-we-made-at-the-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/06\/05\/im-filling-up-the-hoop-house-we-made-at-the-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m filling up the hoop house we made at the seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Jackie-peppers.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2293\" title=\"Jackie-peppers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Jackie-peppers.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At our recent homestead seminar we built a hoop house so that everyone could see how cheap and easy it is to put one together. And as most folks had seen the results of our last year&#8217;s hoop house in a huge harvest of giant peppers, even John and Mia from California (who live in the mountains) were quickly enthusiastic about building similar structures on their homestead.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I started planting in earnest. Not only did I set out four flats of peppers with plenty of room for more today, but I also planted a 75-foot row of potatoes (with three more to plant today), carrots, rutabagas, and dill. It&#8217;s so exciting to get everything in the ground with some warmer weather forecasted and little rain. It&#8217;s been hugely rainy here recently and we&#8217;re all a bit late getting things in the ground. Luckily we live on a gravel ridge, so when it quits raining, I can immediately begin tilling and planting. Right now life on the homestead is a little hectic, but it feels so good to get things planted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our recent homestead seminar we built a hoop house so that everyone could see how cheap and easy it is to put one together. And as most folks had seen the results of our last year&#8217;s hoop house in a huge harvest of giant peppers, even John and Mia from California (who live in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292"}],"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=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}