Huerto8-Ch8- no ch7-29,30dec,17feb

Question 1

Unfortunately, I do not know how to draw, not by hand nor with a computer.

Answer 1

Desafortunadamente/por desgracia, no sé dibujar, ni a mano ni con computadora.

Question 2

Maybe we could find relevant “clip art” on-line, but I am not sure.

Answer 2

Tal vez podamos (podríamos?) encontrar "dibujos ya hechos" relevantes o sea "clip art" en línea, pero no estoy segura.
(pre-dee-SEH-nyoh)
ASKING LC
diseñar = to design 
la imagen

Question 3

a fertile and healthy soil…

Answer 3

un suelo fértil y saludable…
(fehr-teel)

sano=healthy, is a temporary state and uses ser or estar
saludable=is a quality and it seems uses only ser (according to one reference)

Question 4

to twine oneself around-to get tangled up

Jackie is tangled-up with a disgusting guy.

Answer 4

enredarse

Jackie se enreda con un tipo asqueroso.

the bindweed - la enredadera

Question 5

Vetch wraps itself around the taller plants, helping them as a support.

Answer 5

La veza se enreda alrededor de las plantas más altas ayudándolas como un soporte.

Question 6

they fix nitrogen

Answer 6

fijan el nitrógeno

fijar=to fix/set/establish/focus

Question 7

phytase

phytates

Answer 7

phytase=la fitasa
phytates=los fitatos
bran contains phytates, can prevent absorption of minerals (iron, zinc, calcium)
phytic acid found in tubers, legumes, grains, stores phosphorous in plant seeds

Question 8

N, P, K

Answer 8

el nitrógeno (growth), el fosforo (use & storage of energy) , el potasio (disease resistance)

Question 9

double digging
double dug
single dug

Answer 9

doble excavación
excavado double
excavado sencillo (sencillo is simple, rather than easy)
(think excavated double)
ex means to pull something out of something but doesn´t make much sense with cavar - to dig
simple=simple or easy

Question 10

the purple/common vetch

Answer 10

la veza morada o común
(see more purple in Ada County)

think fetch the vase a

Question 11

to soak/steep
to sift
the sifted compost

Answer 11

• remojar (re prefix means to repeat, like in English, redo, but also to emphasize)
• cerner (think getting Saurah near to sift - not happening)
• but Saurah needs a dad=sifted, cernida!
• la composta cernida
• (ado-ido makes an adj of a verb, and is usually then its in ENG past tense ED, sifted, la manzana cocida the cooked apple)

Question 12

interplanted

Answer 12

interplantado

intercalar = to alternate-intersperse I think it is used as intercropping

Question 13

to cut back

to pasture/to graze

Answer 13

• podarse-recortar
• pastorearse - the book uses this as like to cut back but they call it grazing
• grazing=pastoreo
• pastorear=to pasture/to graze

Question 14

crunchy/rustling/creaky

Answer 14

crujiente

think of french crudites eaten by crude he gente

Question 15

the panicles

Answer 15

las panoja, las panículas

Question 16

the comfrey

the clover

the sunflower

Answer 16

la consuelda (think con salary-suelda)

el trébol (think three balls)

el girasol

Question 17

to rehearse/try-out/test
Try out the combinations.
a field trial

Answer 17

ensayar
Ensaye las combinaciones.
un ensayo de campo

Question 18

calorie crops

Answer 18

cultivos calóricos

Question 19

Soak the seeds overnight-(Put the seeds to soak overnight.)

Answer 19

Poner las semillas en remojo durante la noche.
Remoja las semillas durante la noche.
(Poner en remojo = leave to soak)
remojar=to soak/to steep, think of getting wet (mojar) again and again

Question 20

You will never…

You will never learn if you don´t keep studying.

Answer 20

Nunca te vas a + infinitive

Nunca te vas a aprender si no sigues estudiando.

Question 21

to crouch/bend down

Answer 21

agacharse

’ think of you making a chair in front of the stove - haga char
- I got char when I am crouching down

agachar=to lower/bend/bow

Question 22

My knees creak when I bend down to tend to the fire.

Answer 22

Las rodillas crujen cuando me agacho para atender el fuego.

crujir = to creak/crackle/crunch (the crew hears the creak, see a crew of people listening to your knees creak and laughing!)