{"id":3631,"date":"2013-11-07T17:12:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T22:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2013-11-07T17:12:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T22:12:26","slug":"its-not-snowing-yet-so-will-and-i-are-doing-garden-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/11\/07\/its-not-snowing-yet-so-will-and-i-are-doing-garden-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s not snowing yet so Will and I are doing garden cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s cold and cloudy so we’re trying to get the garden finished up and put to bed for winter. Will pulled the tomato cages and dumped the old vines into a couple of piles to burn while I carried the cages over by the fence to stack for winter. Then he and David pulled the steel T-post stakes (which worked wonderfully as the cages didn’t tip over!). We ended up with two large piles of tomato and potato vines. We burn these vines so they don’t harbor insect and disease to infect the garden next year. We don’t want more potato bugs, blight, or septoria leaf spot!<\/p>\n

Once finished, Will brought out the propane tank and the weed burner. He grinned to me and said “Pyro, this is for you!” Pyro being the nickname of a sweet lady who attended two of our seminars and was introduced to the weed burner first hand. It gives out a jet plane-like roar that is quite startling if you aren’t expecting it!<\/p>\n

\"Burning-vines\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Even though it’s been raining, the dead vines burned down very well, leaving only beneficial ash on the garden. We’ve just got to haul away the tarps and plastic we covered plants with before frosts and dig another row of glads and the garden is clean. Whew!<\/p>\n

\"Canning-cabbage\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This afternoon I’m back to shredding more cabbage for Amish coleslaw. I use it a lot for so many different things. I canned up quarts and quarts of plain cabbage chunks and the kraut is doing well. What a cabbage crop this year!<\/p>\n

My cold is much better and Will is slowly losing his. I hate fall colds! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s cold and cloudy so we’re trying to get the garden finished up and put to bed for winter. Will pulled the tomato cages and dumped the old vines into a couple of piles to burn while I carried the cages over by the fence to stack for winter. Then he and David pulled the […]<\/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\/3631"}],"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=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}