{"id":3522,"date":"2013-09-19T11:50:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2013-09-19T11:50:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:50:48","slug":"it-comes-every-year-but-it-always-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/09\/19\/it-comes-every-year-but-it-always-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"It comes every year, but it always hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Frosted-squash\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The FREEZE. Last week we not only had a frost, which we prepared for by covering all crops we could with plastic tarps, but it FROZE. At temperatures down to 27 degrees, plastic is not enough and all our frost-sensitive crops’ vines and stalks froze to death. I couldn’t sleep at night, knowing it was getting too cold. It seemed like I could hear my garden freezing to death. In the morning, I went out to see if maybe some of them had survived under the plastic. No such luck, other than the peppers in the hoop house that were severely burned but not killed. Corn, squash, cukes, melons, and tomatoes — all black and drooping. We knew the freeze was bound to come, so I’ve been canning like mad for a couple weeks, often more than one crop a day. But now that it came, the corn will soon turn to tough starch and be no longer edible, so every day I can corn, corn, and more corn. Plain corn, corn and peppers, corn and carrots, corn and peas and carrots, corn relish, corn salsa. Today I’ve got another batch husked and ready.<\/p>\n

\"Janann-and-Joyce\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We were surprised a couple days ago. Will’s step-mother, Joyce, and her friend Janann were traveling across country in Janann’s RV and stopped for a visit. Will hadn’t seen Joyce in years and I had only talked to her on the phone. Not only did they visit us, which was wonderful, but they pitched right in with chores and canning! Now that’s company we LOVE!<\/p>\n

But we couldn’t work them to death, so on their way East, we took a day off and took them for a quick tour of the Echo Trail, which runs roughly east and west along some beautiful wild lakes, through the Superior National Forest. We’d hoped for moose or bear viewings, but only saw a chipmunk! But we had a nice picnic lunch and great time, although all too short.<\/p>\n

\"Echo-Trail\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They went on East and we returned home.<\/p>\n

\"Frosted-tomatoes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The garden is droopy but oh-so-productive yet! We got a whole truckload of Hopi Pale Grey squash — mature, huge ones, too. And there’s probably another truckload of tomatoes. Mostly green ones as we were late this year, but they’ll ripen indoors in tubs. Of course we’re saving seeds and canning like mad as they ripen. We were blessed with a wonderful garden; I think the best I’ve ever had. Now we’re hustling to save as much of it as we can. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The FREEZE. Last week we not only had a frost, which we prepared for by covering all crops we could with plastic tarps, but it FROZE. At temperatures down to 27 degrees, plastic is not enough and all our frost-sensitive crops’ vines and stalks froze to death. I couldn’t sleep at night, knowing it was […]<\/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\/3522"}],"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=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}