{"id":2572,"date":"2012-09-17T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T21:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2012-09-17T17:43:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T21:43:53","slug":"freeze-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/09\/17\/freeze-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeze warning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, we&#8217;ve been through a couple of frost warnings, but tonight the weather radio is calling for a freeze warning &#8212; 30 degrees! EEeeeek! So all day we&#8217;ve been picking tomatoes. Buckets and baskets of tomatoes. Of course I&#8217;ve already canned up a lot of sauces, but now we have something like fifteen bushels of tomatoes, from huge red ones to medium-sized green tomatoes, stacked up in totes, bushel baskets, and buckets on our unheated back porch. It&#8217;s unheated but still stays twenty degrees warmer than outdoors. And there are still thousands of tomatoes out there &#8212; mostly green ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ripe-tomatoes.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2573\" title=\"Ripe-tomatoes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ripe-tomatoes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I called my friend Jeri, whose tomatoes had been killed by a hail storm. She and her husband, Jim, were over last week to pick two 5-gallon buckets of ripe tomatoes. I knew she could use more. So she hurried over this afternoon and picked two more buckets full.<\/p>\n<p>We were totally amazed at the tomato crop this year. The tomatoes were late, but they were huge and abundant. We had wonderfully giant Cherokee Purple, Old German, Tree Tomatoes, and a new heritage Italian tomato given to us by a friend. He got them from an old Italian immigrant who smuggled them into the United States in his socks! And, boy, are they good, too. Did I mention that these tomatoes were well over a pound &#8212; most two pounds and better. We had a couple that actually looked like pumpkins!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cherokee-purple-tomatoes.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2574\" title=\"Cherokee-purple-tomatoes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Cherokee-purple-tomatoes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Bill-Bean-tomatoes.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2575\" title=\"Bill-Bean-tomatoes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Bill-Bean-tomatoes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going out to cover our remaining frost sensitive crops and am hoping against hope that it really doesn&#8217;t freeze tonight. Wish us luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, we&#8217;ve been through a couple of frost warnings, but tonight the weather radio is calling for a freeze warning &#8212; 30 degrees! EEeeeek! So all day we&#8217;ve been picking tomatoes. Buckets and baskets of tomatoes. Of course I&#8217;ve already canned up a lot of sauces, but now we have something like fifteen bushels of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572"}],"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=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}