{"id":3747,"date":"2014-08-22T22:07:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T22:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2014-08-22T22:07:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T22:07:44","slug":"first-green-beans-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"First Green Beans of the year."},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we picked the first batch of Green Beans and Yellow Wax Beans. Also we picked another bowl of strawberries. Having fresh strawberries in late August is a really good reason not to replace the bed of ever-bearing strawberries with the June bearing variety. I will just freeze this batch of berries for winter.<\/p>\n

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We also picked a couple of tomatoes, some swiss chard, an onion, and a pepper, for a scramble breakfast tomorrow.<\/p><\/div>\n

On the stove I have a pot of gooseberries which are thawing out. I’m going to start making jam and see if I can’t clear out some space in the freezer.<\/p>\n

We need to move the jars of tomato sauce and chopped tomatoes, and jams I’ve already made, into the pantry.\u00a0 This weekend we need to do some re-organizing in the pantry because soon we’ll have a whole pile of potatoes, carrots and beets that are going to need a home.<\/p>\n

This time of year, the main problem is keeping up with things getting ripe. It’s so much trying!<\/p>\n

This morning we had a visitor of the black bear variety.\u00a0 Dan first saw him (this was a big bear, so most likely a male), walking down the path to the garden.\u00a0 He put his paw on our compost bin, and then walked all the way around the garden.\u00a0 Following his nose, obviously.\u00a0 He didn’t attempt to tear into the fencing, which makes us very happy.\u00a0 I walked around the garden, following his path, just to see what he’d done, if anything.\u00a0 All I could see was his very large footprints in the bark mulch.<\/p>\n

After his garden tour, he came back up the path to the house, so we went into the sun room to see what he would be doing.\u00a0 Mishkin hadn’t been fed yet, so he was following us around, complaining about that fact, but not paying attention to what was outside.\u00a0 Then, Mish saw the bear as it climbed on the porch next to the sun room door.\u00a0 He growled loudly, and raced over to the chair closest to the bear, telling that bear off in no uncertain terms.\u00a0\u00a0 And he was very fluffed, getting as large as possible.\u00a0 The bear was oblivious to his imminent demise. \u00a0 So we banged on the glass window in the door, and waved our arms around, and yelled at the bear to leave.\u00a0 That made an impression, and off he went down the hill at high speed.<\/p>\n

Mishkin was all full of himself, as he had chased the bear away.\u00a0 He’s been keeping an eye on the outside today, between naps, making sure that the bear he chased off hasn’t returned.\u00a0 Good tough cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we picked the first batch of Green Beans and Yellow Wax Beans. Also we picked another bowl of strawberries. Having fresh strawberries in late August is a really good reason not to replace the bed of ever-bearing strawberries with the June bearing variety. I will just freeze this batch of berries for winter. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}