{"id":9939,"date":"2023-06-01T21:42:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T01:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9939"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:42:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T01:42:35","slug":"boy-is-it-hard-to-work-in-the-gardens-when-its-in-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/06\/01\/boy-is-it-hard-to-work-in-the-gardens-when-its-in-the-90s\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, is it hard to work in the gardens when it’s in the 90’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, you guys in the south think we’re sissies. But, we’re definitely not used to such high temperatures, especially at planting time. Not only is it hot but we have a record number of mosquitoes this year. We spray up, then sweat the bug repellent off. Ish! My sister sent a neat cure for household mosquitoes. You fill a spray bottle with alcohol then spray the buggers when they’re dancing on the screens. It dehydrates them and leaves no mess. Now if I just had a couple of gallons of alcohol\u2026<\/p>\n

Today, Will spent the day trying to run our furrows for the tomato plants and potatoes. Yesterday, I cut up the seed potatoes, planning on getting them in today. But you know how that goes\u2026 Yep, after two passes, he hit a big, buried boulder in the Wolf Garden and twisted it out of shape. That wouldn’t have been so bad, but he’d caught it on a rock in our driveway and bent it earlier this morning. After three hours, he got it untwisted, welded, and back in shape. Only to have it happen again. He finished the needed rows with a single bottom plow, instead, not having enough energy to fix the furrower again today.<\/p>\n

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These Lakota seedlings are now planted in the Sand Garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While he was doing that, I was planting sweet corn in the Sand Garden \u2014 Who Gets Kissed and Simonet, plus Burro Mountain Anasazi popcorn. They won’t cross as they are all very different in pollinating times. I’ll admit I had to do it in stages, with a rest in the house in between times. Then I set out Lakota squash plants on the north end of the corn and planted Olinka naked seeded pumpkin seeds next to them. (Olinkas are Cucurbita pepos, where Lakotas are C. maxima, so they don’t cross.)<\/p>\n

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I’ve got flats of Glass Gem popcorn and Navajo Robin’s Egg corn as both are long season corns and to get needed great mature seed, I plant both indoors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I was planting, I noticed a Monarch butterfly flitting around on the edge of the woods. That made me feel good! Best, yet, when I came home, I saw two more on the lilac bushes in the front yard! I’m hoping they’ll lay eggs on the Butterfly Weed in the flower bed again so we can watch the cute caterpillars. We had so much fun with them the year before last. But none hatched last year, and we didn’t even see any Monarchs. So, you can see why we’re happy they’re here today!<\/p>\n

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We’re hoping we get another batch of cute Monarch caterpillars this summer like these two years ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Okay, you guys in the south think we’re sissies. But, we’re definitely not used to such high temperatures, especially at planting time. Not only is it hot but we have a record number of mosquitoes this year. We spray up, then sweat the bug repellent off. Ish! My sister sent a neat cure for household […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939"}],"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=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9943,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions\/9943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}