{"id":9944,"date":"2023-06-06T18:13:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9944"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:13:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:13:28","slug":"we-finally-were-blessed-by-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/06\/06\/we-finally-were-blessed-by-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"We finally were blessed by rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a week of exceptionally hot, sunny weather, we were tremendously happy to see rain clouds building up after we came in from the garden. Our friend, Dara, had started four flats of our beautiful, but longer season, Navajo Robin’s Egg Blue corn and she came at eight o’clock in the morning so we could start planting it before the heat of the day arrived. Yep, the mosquitoes were out in force, but we sprayed up and planted. She had a doctor’s appointment at 11, so after planting two rows, she had to go. So, Will and I went ahead and planted the remaining two flats. She’d told us there was a good chance of rain for us, so after a brief rest, we set about planting tomatoes. We had just finished for the day when the rain started briefly, with a few big drops. Then it cut loose with a good, pounding rain. Thank God! We ended up with nearly a third of an inch. And, after it’s been so dry, that was so very nice.<\/p>\n

Today, we went out and finished planting the tomatoes, all 5\u00bd hundred-foot rows. Today, it’s cooled down into the low sixties, and we have more energy. I’m so thankful my knees are well enough for me to work. Yep, they still hurt. But I can work. On Thursday, I’m getting cortisone shots in both of them and that should get me through planting season.<\/p>\n

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Will ran trenches in the Wolf Garden with a plow, then dug deeper, every 6 feet so I can follow with the tomatoes and name stakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After planting the tomatoes, he carefully tucks the soil in around them and shoves the dirt to cover the trench between the plants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our beautiful yard flowers are stunning us with their blooms. Our three-year-old water lily, which I leave in the pond all winter, has started blooming and wow, is it gorgeous! I’m walking by it, on my way to go out in the Main Garden to plant some pole beans and Seneca Sunrise sweet corn and it jazzes me up to see it blooming.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t our water lily gorgeous?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

After a week of exceptionally hot, sunny weather, we were tremendously happy to see rain clouds building up after we came in from the garden. Our friend, Dara, had started four flats of our beautiful, but longer season, Navajo Robin’s Egg Blue corn and she came at eight o’clock in the morning so we could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944"}],"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=9944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9948,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions\/9948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}