{"id":9970,"date":"2023-06-27T13:12:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9970"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:12:52","slug":"we-finally-got-a-little-rain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/06\/27\/we-finally-got-a-little-rain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We finally got a little rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were very dry \u2014 some seeds planted two weeks ago haven’t even sprouted in gardens where watering is very difficult, and we aren’t doing it yet. So, you can imagine how elated we were when over an inch and half of rain was forecast and headed our way. Well, we did get rain. But, phooey! We only got about half an inch, total, over four days. It sure helped but we really can use four times that, easily. Maybe later this week? The good news is that the carrots I planted in the Main Garden are coming up. I figured them for a loss as Will had moved the furrower on the Earthway seeder down, instead of up, like I asked him to. Carrots are small seeds. Thus, they only should be planted about \u00bd inch deep, at the most. These were planted about 2 inches or better. I don’t know why, but they’re coming up nicely. How they found the sun, I’ll never know!<\/p>\n

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Will preparing to cut down the first pine. See how it leans toward the apple and fence?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of our best apple trees in the orchard is having a really hard time; part of the top is dying off. The cause? Several big (now) trees, just over the fence from it. They not only shade the tree but also suck up nutrients and moisture the poor tree needs. So, today, Will decided to cut them down. Bad news: the trees lean toward the orchard, tree, and fence. Will worked a rope over the biggest branch of the biggest pine and I backed the ATV so he could fasten a rope to it. He notched it on “my” side, while I put a strain on the rope. Then, he went to the back side and cut the trunk while I pulled with the four-wheeler. The tree came down nicely. Yes, I was safely out of reach! He repeated the process with the second tree. And now the poor Norland apple will survive and, hopefully, put on new growth.<\/p>\n

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The biggest tree, down and Will is cutting off the branches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The apple tree already looks better without the big pine sucking up all the sunshine, nutrients, and moisture. The second pine is also gone too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been watching the pollinators around our gardens. And, we have a bunch, from bumblebees to smaller flies and mason bees. Around all of our gardens there are flowering plants, from dogbane to clover. Not only do the bees love them but so do the hundreds of butterflies. We have a lot of monarchs this year, which makes us really happy. I hope we see caterpillars!<\/p>\n

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The clover and flowers around our garden attract pollinators and also lots of butterflies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

We were very dry \u2014 some seeds planted two weeks ago haven’t even sprouted in gardens where watering is very difficult, and we aren’t doing it yet. So, you can imagine how elated we were when over an inch and half of rain was forecast and headed our way. Well, we did get rain. But, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9974,"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\/9970"}],"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=9970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9975,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions\/9975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}