{"id":9993,"date":"2023-07-11T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T20:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2023-07-11T16:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T20:47:51","slug":"my-cherry-pitter-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/07\/11\/my-cherry-pitter-came\/","title":{"rendered":"My cherry pitter came"},"content":{"rendered":"

And just in time, too, as the birds were enjoying way too many of our pie cherries. You could just look under the trees and see lots of pieces of nice, red cherries lying on the ground. But I just didn’t want to pit each one of thousands, one at a time, with my little, hand-operated, plunger-style pitter, knowing my antique pitter was coming, which I’d bought on Ebay. Yesterday, it was hanging in a bag, in a box, on our gate. Yea!<\/p>\n

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Here’s my new cherry pitter, in action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, friends came over and helped weed in the Main Garden. Then, after lunch, they took buckets and, with Will, everyone went out and picked our three pie cherry bushes\/trees. (First, I had Will pick a bowl full, to try out the new cherry pitter. We all gathered around and watched the pitter in action. You just turn the handle and the pits (mostly) come out the front chute while the kind of flattened cherries drop into a bowl, below. Yes, it did miss a few smaller pits. But it was easy to spot them when they fell as they were sort of yellow. I also felt each layer of cherries to make sure there weren’t any pits we’d missed. All in all, it is a joy to use and way faster than doing one at a time. We ended up with three ice cream pails full so this afternoon, I’ll be pitting the works. Tomorrow, after refrigerating the big bowl full, I’ll can them all up in pints to use in baking \u2014 pies especially. Wow, that’s so very nice!<\/p>\n

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Friends came today to help weed and pick cherries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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That pitter will see plenty of action this afternoon!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The garden continues to look good. Our Arnie’s Golden Butternut squash is fantastic, already setting lots of baby squash. And, in the same small plot, the new super-sweet, open-pollinated sweet corn we’re trialing for the first time, Damaun, is already waist high, even on Will, who is taller than I am. I can’t wait to try it!<\/p>\n

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We’re really happy at the growth of this new sweet corn, Damaun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The lettuce I planted in old stock tanks is fabulous! I also trialed a new red lettuce from Fedco, Hyper-red, and it looks gorgeous! The Paris Island romaine lettuce, in the other tank, is wonderful too. Salads, here I come! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And just in time, too, as the birds were enjoying way too many of our pie cherries. You could just look under the trees and see lots of pieces of nice, red cherries lying on the ground. But I just didn’t want to pit each one of thousands, one at a time, with my little, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9996,"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\/9993"}],"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=9993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9998,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9993\/revisions\/9998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}