Lexus going sugarcane green

Toyota's Lexus CT200h small luxury hybrid will be the first car outfitted with a sugarcane-based product called bio-PET, also referred to as Ecological Plastic.  The product's initial use will be in the luggage compartment liner.  However, the material may also be used in the manufacture of other interior plastic-based parts of the car, including seats and carpet.  Check out the the story at crispgreen.com.

Sweet potatoes harvested and fall garden planted

With almost no work, except for the digging at the end, we harvested a wheelbarrow load of sweet potatoes this year...getting an even bigger harvest than last year.  We don't even know what to do with them, except to give a good portion of them away .














This past weekend we planted our annual fall-winter garden which includes carrots, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower*, cabbage*, loose-leaf lettuce*, head lettuce*, beets, swiss chard, bush beans, spinach, and onions*.  Starred (*) veggies were transplanted.  The bush beans are experimental for us this year as a winter crop.  The rest are veggies that I know first-hand will thrive in southern Louisiana's fall and winter.  I would like to think that this will be the last garden crop I will plant in Louisiana, but I'm not betting very heavily on it.