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		<title>Organic Flower Farmer is Living Her Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Ziegler profile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered who grows the beautiful cut-flower bouquets you see on display at farmer’s markets? Here’s a glimpse into one flower farmer’s life—Lisa Ziegler of The Gardener’s Workshop in Virginia. 
Lisa Ziegler is living her dream as an organic flower farmer, popular guest speaker and owner of an online business called The Gardener&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrot Pants Wins Weird Veggie Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all the gardeners who entered the 2010 Weird Veggie and Funny Fruit Contest sponsored by WesternGardeners.com. The results are in! Gardener Geri Koncilja judged the contest entries and made her selection: 
First Place goes to&#8230;. Carrot Pants grown by MJ Blanchette.


About the winner, Geri wrote, &#8220;Pants in the ground, pants in the ground, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roasted Tomatoes Preserve Gardening Flavor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Preparing & Preserving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Preserving vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slow-roasted tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomato recipes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to preserve the garden-fresh taste of tomatoes is by slow roasting them. I&#8217;ve written about the benefits of slow-roasting tomatoes before, but now that tomato season is at its peak, it&#8217;s time for a simple step-by-step to get started:

Any variety of tomato can be roasted and varieties can be mixed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Fall Gardening with Brown-Eyed Susan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Planting Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainable Landscaping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xeriscaping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brown-eyed Susan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cottage Garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Native flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perennial flowers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brown-eyed Susan is a native biennial plant that acts like a perennial because of its prolific self-sowing.

I&#8217;ve been talking about my vegetable garden a lot lately, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t appreciate the flowers in my cottage garden. One of my all-time favorites is the Brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba) because it brightens up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Recipe for Pickled Jalapeno Peppers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vegetable Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why buy a jar of pickled jalapenos at the grocery store when you can make a home-made batch with peppers plucked from plants on your patio?
Pickled jalapenos are a favorite food around here and I usually have a store-bought jar at the ready to add to panini sandwiches, to top a pizza or to sprinkle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening is Just a Bowl of Cherry Tomatoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vegetable Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth about tomatoes is evident when tastefully arranged in a 1930s vintage glass bowl. &#8220;Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit.&#8221;
It&#8217;s the first of September and now that tomatoes are being eaten at every meal, it&#8217;s easy to say gardening here is just a bowl of cherry tomatoes.
The frustrations of a cold spring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chile Pepper Harvest is Gardening Reward</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organic gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preparing & Preserving]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pepper plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pepper varieties]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The hard work of sowing and growing is over around here and now it&#8217;s time to enjoy the chile pepper harvest.
One of my favorite parts of summer is when it&#8217;s almost over. That&#8217;s when gardening gets a lot more enjoyable because the hard work is done and the harvest has begun.
These days I&#8217;m having fun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lemon Queen Gardening Causes a Big Buzz</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Attracting bees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking for a way to attract more bees to your garden, plant a patch of Lemon Queen sunflowers and join The Great Sunflower Project. 
In May I planted a packet of Lemon Queen sunflower seeds so I could be one of the citizen scientists counting bees for the The Great Sunflower Project. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sneak Peek of New DBG Greenhouse Complex</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the Better Denver Bond Campaign&#8211;and Denver voters&#8211;the new Denver Botanic Gardens Greenhouse Complex is almost ready for its debut. This morning, the Gardens hosted members of the media to a sneak peek of the shiny new facility. 
The Denver Botanic Gardens Greenhouse Complex opens to visitors on September 4, but if you&#8217;re a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plant a Row for the Hungry Harvest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to start harvesting and donating your Plant a Row for the Hungry produce to a food bank, soup kitchen or food pantry near you. 
This morning I spent time picking and packing 7 pounds of home-grown organic tomatoes and French yellow beans to drop off at The Friends of Saint Andrew in Aurora.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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