{"id":4119,"date":"2014-07-10T13:22:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2014-07-10T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:22:41","slug":"in-between-rains-weve-been-working-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/07\/10\/in-between-rains-weve-been-working-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"In between rains we&#8217;ve been working in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rain, rain, rain, UGH! I&#8217;ve had enough, already. But, hey, it&#8217;s been good for the garden. We now have thigh high sweet corn, squash and cucumbers that are starting to run, and very nice potatoes, carrots, and onions, not to mention huge tomato plants that are starting to set tomatoes already. The peppers are so-so, but we haven&#8217;t (still) gotten the plastic on our new hoop house. So much to do, so little time between rainstorms!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/will-squash.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/will-squash.gif\" alt=\"will-squash\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been weeding our squash for the last time and mulching them heavily with partially rotted manure. Will also mulched both sides of our sweet corn rows in the garden. I&#8217;m afraid to look at it tomorrow. It will probably be seven feet tall! Corn and squash are both heavy feeders and really benefit from plenty of manure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mulched-corn.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mulched-corn.gif\" alt=\"mulched-corn\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been milking our heifer, Mamba, and aside from two short rear teats, it&#8217;s been going fine. (We never got around to teaching her to lead or stand tied, so I just feed her a bucket of grain and milk.) I saved the first milk this morning. It&#8217;s going to be so nice to drink plenty of ice cold raw milk again and start making butter and cheese!<\/p>\n<p>I saw the surgeon yesterday and she put the hurry up on my surgery so I could get it over with. Monday morning I&#8217;ll be in the hospital getting my gallbladder out &#8212; laparoscopically. I read the patient information sheet and was relieved to read that my gallbladder would be disposed of &#8220;in a respectful manner.&#8221; Oh please! I mentioned that statement to the surgeon and she did a double-take. Then she read it and we both laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m sure I won&#8217;t post on Monday and maybe not until Wednesday so don&#8217;t worry. I&#8217;m in good hands and am as strong as a horse. (Okay, maybe a Shetland pony\u2026) &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain, rain, rain, UGH! I&#8217;ve had enough, already. But, hey, it&#8217;s been good for the garden. We now have thigh high sweet corn, squash and cucumbers that are starting to run, and very nice potatoes, carrots, and onions, not to mention huge tomato plants that are starting to set tomatoes already. The peppers are so-so, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119"}],"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=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}