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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:14:22 -0500, EarthNSky wrote: 
> 
> sanrico AT highdesert.com wrote:
> > Mornin', Bev - 2:53 a.m. here in the middle of the great Mojave. You 
> > continue to amaze! Sandy
> 
> Morning, Sandy..
> What will be amazing is if only half the stuff I planted provides food.
>   It's a big tomato year, here, as I am totally out of canned tomato
> products with the exception of about 4 jars of pizza sauce, two jars of
> V8, maybe a dozen pints of mild salsa, and one quart of tomatillo salsa.
> The other night, I had to improvise and make spaghetti with pizza sauce.
>   It wsn't that great, but it was edible.

Looking back over the years at some of the goofy - but sometimes successful -
substitutions I've had to devise. Making salsa once, ran out of the number of
chiles needed and tried to sneak in a few shots of Tabasco. Yuk. 

  My tomatillo salsa was such a
> hit with the family and neighbors that next year I plan to make as much
> as I can.  I should have tomatillos out the ying yang....
> Some of those slicing types, like all those Bloody butcher tomatoes, I
> am going to try to pawn off on the local feed store in the Spring.  If
> Roger (the owner) will allow me to sell on consignment, I'll be able to
> afford all new seed for 2008, and maybe some ducks, too.  I know I'm
> taking a gamble, but what the heck...I think the seed packet cost me
> maybe $1.50..lol..

As you said, you gotta take a chance. Ducks are so cool. I'm waiting on the
McMurray catalog, and the 'big' one...um...starts with an S - Strom-something.
You know the one. 

> Anyway, we'll see what comes up in a week or so.  I have this huge excel
> spreadsheet with all my varieties and info on it.. I cropped it down to
> 4 columns and deleted a few rows of stuff I didn't plant(like the
> carrots) to post here.  I have columns for the following: Crop, Variety,
> Source, Year, Date, Moon, ~# seeds sown, # Pots/flats,        Max Days 2 
> Germ,
> Comments, Transplanted Date, In ground date, #  plants to grow

Spreadsheets are one of mankind's greatest inventions, I think. I keep a 
master
shopping list on one, with everything categorized. Sometimes I pull it up 
when I
draw a blank in the menu department, and just looking at all those ingredients
invariably provides the needed inspiration.

> I wanted to take good notes so that I will know what to do with the
> seeds I have left and make better decisions about what to order next year.

An admirable plan. Keep us posted, eh?
Sandy
> 
> Bev
> 
> -- 
> Bevanron of EarthNSky Farm   Sleep well tonight, for somewhere in the
> ocean's depths, MY son is protecting YOUR freedom.
> 
> 
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