{"id":5534,"date":"2016-09-07T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2016-09-07T18:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T22:24:37","slug":"the-big-bill-bean-is-ripe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2016\/09\/07\/the-big-bill-bean-is-ripe\/","title":{"rendered":"The big Bill Bean is ripe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2016\/09\/07\/the-big-bill-bean-is-ripe\/jackiebillbean_0859\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JackieBillBean_0859.jpg\" alt=\"jackiebillbean_0859\" width=\"446\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JackieBillBean_0859.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JackieBillBean_0859-440x420.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/JackieBillBean_0859-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been wondering when you&#8217;d get a chance to see our biggest big Bill Bean tomato? We harvested it before the chickens could get a beak on it, and it&#8217;s a whopper \u2014 the biggest tomato I&#8217;ve ever seen. It measured 22 inches around. Now that&#8217;s a tomato!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2016\/09\/07\/the-big-bill-bean-is-ripe\/bigtomato_0860\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bigtomato_0860.jpg\" alt=\"bigtomato_0860\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bigtomato_0860.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Bigtomato_0860-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the other tomatoes are coming in gangbusters, too. We picked a nice big pair of Solar Flares yesterday and not only are they big, but gorgeous too! We can hardly eat one they&#8217;re so pretty (we did, anyway).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2016\/09\/07\/the-big-bill-bean-is-ripe\/solarflare_0856\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5537\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/SolarFlare_0856.jpg\" alt=\"solarflare_0856\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/SolarFlare_0856.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/SolarFlare_0856-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Haying is finally finished. And boy, what a finish. We ended up with three out of four tractors broken down and both big round balers with bearings gone out. Just ahead of a big rainstorm, too. Whew, are we glad that&#8217;s done!<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m getting packed for the big Lakeland, Florida <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfrelianceexpo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Self Reliance Expo<\/a> where I&#8217;ll be speaking on Friday and Saturday. Will I ever be canning when I get back! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve been wondering when you&#8217;d get a chance to see our biggest big Bill Bean tomato? We harvested it before the chickens could get a beak on it, and it&#8217;s a whopper \u2014 the biggest tomato I&#8217;ve ever seen. It measured 22 inches around. Now that&#8217;s a tomato! And the other tomatoes are coming in [&hellip;]<\/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\/5534"}],"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=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}