{"id":9963,"date":"2023-06-21T19:42:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T23:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9963"},"modified":"2023-06-21T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T23:42:20","slug":"hot-hot-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/06\/21\/hot-hot-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot, hot, hot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know high eighties and low nineties isn’t hot for some of you, but for us Northwoods folks, it’s plenty warm. Especially when we’re rushing to finish getting the gardens all in, cultivating what’s up, and mulching the whole works. Not much shade in those gardens, either! But, the good news is that today I finished planting the last of the beans, have all of our plants in the ground like tomatoes, melons, squash, and the cole crops and we might\u00a0<\/em> get some much-needed rain this weekend. We’re praying like crazy that it really does happen as it’s so very dry right now. I got eight half-pints of honeyberry jam made on Monday and it’s so <\/em>good!<\/p>\n

Last night, a deer came into the front yard and ate up most of my hostas. Will saw her, standing right in front of the solar spotlight we use for the flag at night. I think she burped hosta breath before Hondo chased her out of the yard. I’d been planning on taking out the old pallet fence, which is kind of falling down, around the yard, replacing it with 6-foot-high 2×4 welded wire and picket fence panels. But, like everything, it took too long, and the deer discovered how bad the fence really is. I’m going to spray them with Liquid Fence, but not having much confidence in that; used it before and not much luck.<\/p>\n

This morning, our friend, Heather, came over to help in the gardens. While I was planting those last beans, she and Will mulched the rest of the tomatoes and then hauled the tomato cages out to the tomatoes and started sliding them down over the steel T posts. We sure value such friends a whole lot. I sent her home early as it was so darned hot, along with a squash and two tomato plants she needed. (Well, maybe she needed\u2026)<\/p>\n

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The tomatoes are all mulched and the cages are ready.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our friend, Heather, helped Will put the cages on the tomatoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m still working on the container garden off the front of the house. David hauled a big tub off the back deck so I can plant a Sweet Aperitif red cherry tomato in it, along with a stake and cage. We want lots of handy tomatoes and other salad ingredients, right out the door. (Okay, I’m lazy!)<\/p>\n

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I’m having fun mixing old pots with new plants in my little container garden. (5 acres of garden is not enough!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More iris are blooming. This morning, a beautiful blue one opened and it smells just like grape jelly. Wow, how sweet!<\/p>\n

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Here’s our latest-opening iris and it smells like grape jelly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

I know high eighties and low nineties isn’t hot for some of you, but for us Northwoods folks, it’s plenty warm. Especially when we’re rushing to finish getting the gardens all in, cultivating what’s up, and mulching the whole works. Not much shade in those gardens, either! But, the good news is that today I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963"}],"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=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9968,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions\/9968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}