Word #276, 277 and 278

We will be offline for a few days

so I am posting ahead....

Jerusalem Artichoke 

One of our neighbors gave us a

lot of starts for us to plant now

for next years harvest. This

plant produces a perfect protein

in it's tubers. Cannot wait to try them out!

 Greed

The price of gasoline is directly connected

to our lack of self-sufficency

 and oil companies greed.

Price-fixing anyone?

Harvesting

Gave my basil "hedges" a haircut and

made 3 big batches of pesto!

Word 273

Tearjerker

Homegrown onions are the best! Mine were small

this year-but no worries-I made a huge batch of

French Onion soup for the freezer.

Word #245

Heirloom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom_tomato

Word #238 and 239

Las nuevas palabras en español

Las cebollas

Las cebollas son muy delicioso

Los Chilies

Los chiles pueden ser muy piquante

http://www.free-translator.com/

Word #235

Brassica oleracea

Word #232

Sustenance

Tomatoes do not last long in our home.

From the garden to the house they have

been known to disappear. Garden candy! 

Word # 194 and 195

Irritation

Libation

It's been a week of irritations.

Pesky gray squirrels and chipmunks

have nibbled down to the ground all

my dill and cilantro. Grrrr.

On top of that my lap top's hard drive

went T.U. and finally and most importantly

our well pump is beginning to fail.

Today is Friday the 13th- I think I'll just stay home

and have a Sierra Nevada Torpedo.....

Cheers everyone and have a good weekend.

Word #182

Irrigation

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Word #158

Germination

Word #155

Bagged

I am trying potatoes in bags this year-

Word #153

Eggplants

I made some small poly tunnels to protect the baby

plants from the fierce sun. The kale in the back of the

photo used the tunnel first-now that they are acclimated

I got some eggplant starts and they are settling in under

the tunnel that I moved from the kale.

The little guys in front are my butternut squash that

I started from seeds plus some more eggplant that I

also started from seeds.

Interesting gardening here....