{"id":9608,"date":"2022-09-28T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9608"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:52:09","slug":"it-finally-froze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2022\/09\/28\/it-finally-froze\/","title":{"rendered":"It finally froze!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been expecting a frost for over a week now and have been daily preparing, picking, and praying about that. We did well until the night before last, when we did get a frost. Then, last night, it dove down to 25 degrees F. Even covered crops froze, all but some peppers, covered by a sleeping bag. We worked our butts off for two days, especially after hearing of the cold front coming, along with clear nighttime skies. That’s a recipe for freezing up here in the northern tier. We hauled in hundreds of squash and melons, using our Kubota tractor to pick into its bucket, then Will would drive it out to the car, to unload for the \u00bd-mile trip back to the house. What a lifesaver that was! We harvested over 50 nice Hopi Pale Grey and 25 beautiful, rare, Native Gete Okosomin squash. Some are sitting in our living room, where others are stacked in the greenhouse.<\/p>\n

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Will, loading Hopi Pale Grey squash into the car to take home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sarge loves squash, especially these Gete Okosomin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last night, with the temps at 29, Will went out to light the propane heater in the greenhouse. No go! He worked for hours then finally quit. Thank God, the tomatoes and squash out there didn’t freeze. This morning, he went out and had it going in 15 minutes. Seems like a mason bee had plugged the orifice with mud, which set up like concrete. And, after we set up bee houses for them too. Bad bee!<\/p>\n

I picked a bunch of Nelson’s Golden Giant tomatoes, a great heirloom favorite we think looks like our beloved Bill Bean slicer (only yellow, of course!) and we had bacon and tomato sandwiches for dinner. The juice ran down our chins.<\/p>\n

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Aren’t these one- and two-pound Nelson’s Golden Giant tomatoes beautiful?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sarge and Hondo were tired out from all our running back and forth in gardens and crashed on the couch to rest up. Only some dry beans, corn, potatoes, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, and broccoli to go. Oops! I forgot the beets and hundreds more tomatoes as well. Then I have to start canning it all up! Wow, what a harvest. And we’re so grateful!<\/p>\n

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Hondo and Sarge were tired out from all the harvesting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been expecting a frost for over a week now and have been daily preparing, picking, and praying about that. We did well until the night before last, when we did get a frost. Then, last night, it dove down to 25 degrees F. Even covered crops froze, all but some peppers, covered by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608"}],"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=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9613,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions\/9613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}