{"id":2650,"date":"2012-10-17T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2012-10-17T03:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:00:38","slug":"we-are-putting-our-orchard-to-bed-for-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/10\/17\/we-are-putting-our-orchard-to-bed-for-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"We are putting our orchard to bed for winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Orchard.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2651\" title=\"Orchard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Orchard.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will is busy discing our new pasture on the new 40 acres so it&#8217;ll be ready to plant in pasture seeding next spring. I&#8217;m trying to get our garden and orchard put to bed for winter. So far, I&#8217;ve got the orchard pruned of shoots, broken branches, and branches that have grown so they cross and got the trunks either wrapped with metal window screen or plastic tree trunk wraps. Without this protection, voles (field mice) tunnel under the snow and eat the bark of these young trees, girdling and killing the trees. You won&#8217;t notice the damage until the snow melts and you are left with bare, white rings around each tree trunk. So, to protect our trees we are sure to do this each and every fall, before the snow falls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Milton.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2652\" title=\"Milton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Milton.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/State-Fair.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2653\" title=\"State-Fair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/State-Fair.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My next project is taking the tomato vines out of the cages, burning the vines, and stacking the cages and stakes on the side of the garden for next year. We burn our tomato and potato vines to prevent the spread of any disease that might be present and also to kill any insect pests that are trying to over-winter in the vines. We did have potato bugs this year for the first time and we sure don&#8217;t want them back next year!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still canning up a storm, nearly every day. The next two projects are Amish coleslaw and barbecue sauce. We had our first 2012 Hopi Pale Grey squash for dinner last night and boy-oh-boy was it good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will is busy discing our new pasture on the new 40 acres so it&#8217;ll be ready to plant in pasture seeding next spring. I&#8217;m trying to get our garden and orchard put to bed for winter. So far, I&#8217;ve got the orchard pruned of shoots, broken branches, and branches that have grown so they cross [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650"}],"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=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}