{"id":4393,"date":"2014-10-29T15:18:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T19:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2014-10-29T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T19:18:17","slug":"q-and-a-leaving-montana-and-garlic-and-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/10\/29\/q-and-a-leaving-montana-and-garlic-and-onions\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Leaving Montana and garlic and onions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Leaving Montana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;m responding to your last entry in your blog regarding your trip to Montana. Sounded like you really loved Montana. Just curious why you left? I would have to agree with you it is a beautiful state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Melody<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Olympia, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I really, really LOVE Montana. But we left because land prices have gotten so high that we couldn&#8217;t afford to homestead on the scale we wanted to. Land is so much more affordable here in Minnesota and you can buy 40, 100, 120 acres of wild land here where the only wild land in such acreages are in remote &#8220;subdivisions&#8221; where you will have neighbors \u2026 and not always the best of neighbors. Here, we have 120 acres that we could afford and winged and four-footed neighbors. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garlic and onions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We are interested in onions and garlic and would like to see an article of in-depth information for dummies. Last year we planted garlic toes in late October. They sent leaves up and when the freeze came they died. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jim G.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Mount Vernon, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be happy to do an article on onions and garlic. They&#8217;re really easy if you do it right. Therein lies the key, as with many &#8220;difficult&#8221; garden crops such as carrots and parsnips. Planting in the fall is necessary for good garlic but, as you found out, planting too late doesn&#8217;t let the cloves send out strong roots and get established before freezing weather. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving Montana I&#8217;m responding to your last entry in your blog regarding your trip to Montana. Sounded like you really loved Montana. Just curious why you left? I would have to agree with you it is a beautiful state. Melody Olympia, Washington I really, really LOVE Montana. But we left because land prices have gotten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393"}],"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=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}