{"id":4978,"date":"2015-09-14T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2015-09-14T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T22:38:08","slug":"you-never-saw-so-many-tomatoes-in-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/09\/14\/you-never-saw-so-many-tomatoes-in-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"You never saw so many tomatoes in your life!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEven we are amazed and, I’ll admit, somewhat daunted. (In our garden we planted 108 tomato plants.) A few days ago, frost was predicted and we went into hyperdrive. And, because of our little seed business, we had to not only pick ripe tomatoes but also keep them separate and labeled. Whew! Will figured he picked more than 400 pounds and in two days, I’m sure I also picked that many. And there are tons of tomatoes in various stages of ripening still on the vines.
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\nYep, we did get a frost, but the temp was only 31 degrees so it didn’t hurt us much. It did burn about half of the leaves on the squash and pumpkins and just a very few top tomato leaves but we felt so blessed to have missed severe freezing! I did get up at 4 AM to start our irrigation pump on the overhead sprinklers. We’ve found that watering in the early morning seems to save plants that otherwise would freeze (if the temp is not too low).
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\nWe had a visit yesterday by our oldest son Bill and our grandkids, my sister Sue, and nephew Sean, and a neighbor Ervin, from our old neighborhood, down on the farm near Sturgeon Lake. We were real surprised to see Ervin pile out of Bill’s truck! Our families were very close; his kids and mine were good friends and the two families hayed together for years. What a fun day! We picked some tomatoes and the grandkids helped pull carrots for Bill to take home to can. (I did get a little carried away with the carrots this year; two 50′ rows and boy are they productive! Bill got 2 five-gallon buckets full and we only picked about ten feet of row.) We got a big kick out of 3-year-old Ava, and Mason, her “big” brother pulling carrots. They would have gladly pulled the whole two rows.<\/p>\n

Luckily, our temperatures have warmed up and there is no frost in the forecast for at least a week. That’ll give us more time to pull tomatoes, finish ripening some crops and let me seed more tomatoes on the front porch. (Boy, do we ever use our front porch!) — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even we are amazed and, I’ll admit, somewhat daunted. (In our garden we planted 108 tomato plants.) A few days ago, frost was predicted and we went into hyperdrive. And, because of our little seed business, we had to not only pick ripe tomatoes but also keep them separate and labeled. Whew! Will figured he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978"}],"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=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}