{"id":9987,"date":"2023-07-06T17:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9987"},"modified":"2023-07-06T17:32:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:32:02","slug":"time-to-tuck-in-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/07\/06\/time-to-tuck-in-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to tuck in tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not into bed. Around this time of the year, we have to walk through the hundreds of tomatoes, planted this year in the Wolf Garden, and tuck the branches of the plants back into their cages so they grow upright, not sprawl outside the lower wires of the cages. We don’t do much pruning on our tomatoes but do tuck wayward branches into the cages, at least once during July. This keeps tomatoes from flopping onto the ground, where they are prey to insects and mold. Air around the tomatoes helps them stay healthy. So far, I’ve done 325 feet of rows. Whew, that gets my bad back after a while!<\/p>\n

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My job today is tucking stray tomato branches back and up into their cages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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As you can see, I’ve got lots of plants to tuck!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While I’m doing that, Will is cultivating between the bean and onion rows with the tiller. Later, we walk the rows, pulling weeds growing between the plants. As we have had so little rain, the beans are not as lusty as they usually are. But, as we weed, we also pray they’ll still make a good crop. This morning, I dusted the cabbages, broccoli, and cauliflower with pyrethrin dust as Will saw several cabbage moths around them while he was tilling. We’re sure they were laying eggs and we want to beat those soon-to-hatch cabbage worms. While I was dusting, I saw the first broccoli I’d planted have eating sized heads! Wow, I know what’s for dinner tonight.<\/p>\n

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Will is busy cultivating and pulling weeds \u2014 It’s a never-ending job!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got an email that my cherry pitter from Ebay is due for delivery today. It can’t come too soon for me. I want to get some of those billion cherries pitted and canned up before the birds re-discover them and I’m left with none. It can happen. We’re not the only ones who love cherries!<\/p>\n

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I hope my cherry pitter gets here soon!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

No, not into bed. Around this time of the year, we have to walk through the hundreds of tomatoes, planted this year in the Wolf Garden, and tuck the branches of the plants back into their cages so they grow upright, not sprawl outside the lower wires of the cages. We don’t do much pruning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987"}],"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=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9992,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions\/9992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}