{"id":6358,"date":"2017-11-06T17:07:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=6358"},"modified":"2017-11-06T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T22:10:01","slug":"we-have-plenty-of-snow-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/11\/06\/we-have-plenty-of-snow-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"We have plenty of snow on the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter came early this year and stayed! So far we have about a foot of snow on the ground and it shows no sign of melting. Temps are headed into the single numbers this week and we are shocked at how cold it got so quickly! But we keep on keeping on. I’m still canning like mad. I’ve done more enchilada and tomato sauce as well as another case of salsa. (You can find these recipes in my Growing and Canning Your Own Food<\/a> book.) Last night, David’s girlfriend, Ashley, made a big batch of salsa using mostly yellow and golden tomatoes. We really love the appearance and taste of it, too. I canned up six and a half pints and I’m sure we’ll be doing more. We love our salsa!<\/p>\n

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Here’s some of Ashley’s yellow tomato salsa, ready to can up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been using a lot of G. Chalmers large paste tomatoes in our canning this year. It’s turned out to be a very nice tomato even with its pleated, pear-shape.<\/p>\n

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Aren’t the G. Chalmers paste tomatoes cute? And they’re meaty too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year, we grew a nice crop of New Mexico Big Jim chili peppers for the first time since I left New Mexico. They’re big, beautiful and meaty, having a medium-hot flavor that really sparks up a big batch of chili, which we all love, especially with some cornmeal from our home ground corn. (Can’t get those flavors in the store!)<\/p>\n

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Have you ever grown New Mexico Big Jim chili peppers? They’re pretty tasty if you like spicy food.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re seeing a lot of deer, right up in the yard this year. I think it’s because they know we’re in for a hard winter. They’re stocking up on dry bean vines, immature beans, tomatoes, spent cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower leaves, and cornstalks. Last night (it’s deer hunting season now) we had seven in the yard while deer hunters all around us hunkered down in freezing rain on their deer stands. David went to hunt down at his brother Bill’s and saw only does and fawns and one young, small buck. Oh well, there’s another week of season.<\/p>\n

I’ve been sorting out our tomatoes and Will built another shelf on which to organize the varieties. There are so many it took two days to get everything under control! We’re already starting to plan our next year’s gardens and thinking of how to improve them. Will got half of the north garden covered in rotted manure and then the snow came. Hopefully, he can get the other half done too as soon as he gets the tractor’s rear tire fixed. The tire blew out and he had to order a new tube; already had a good used replacement tire but the tractor’s wheel was rusted out badly so he had to get a wheel too. Eeek! But that’s how it goes on the homestead, isn’t it? — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winter came early this year and stayed! So far we have about a foot of snow on the ground and it shows no sign of melting. Temps are headed into the single numbers this week and we are shocked at how cold it got so quickly! But we keep on keeping on. I’m still canning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358"}],"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=6358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6365,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358\/revisions\/6365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}