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		<title>New EZ Plant Protectors for Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though my vegetable garden is covered with 15 inches of snow today, gardening season is just around the corner.
Gardeners who used plant protectors last gardening season outsmarted the rest of us who didn&#8217;t.
There was such a chilly start to last year&#8217;s vegetable gardening season, plant protectors helped gardeners in the long run.
If you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening with Miniature Peppers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My vegetable pick of the week: Red Mini Bell peppers.
One of my favorite vegetable plants in my container garden last summer was a crop of adorable mini bell peppers.
These miniature versions of red bell peppers made gardening (and eating) fun.
I selected mini bells to add to my other pepper selections because I haven&#8217;t had good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Tomatoes for Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked and gardeners answered. Here&#8217;s a list of their top tomato recommendations for planting this season.
Every year I plant a dozen or more new-to-me tomato varieties in my garden. But with hundreds of delicious tomato choices, I needed help narrowing my selections. So in November I asked gardeners on my VegetableGardener.com blog to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seed Sowing Made Simple</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last Saturday in January is designated as National Seed Swap Day. You can celebrate with these ideas for making seed sowing simpler this season.
Many beginning gardeners fret about starting their garden from seed. I know, because I worried about every seed I planted when I first started gardening, too.
But the basics of planting seed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Guide to Vegetable Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Bob Gough may have departed the gardening world last year, but he left gardeners with more than 17 books on horticulture including The Guide to Rocky Mountain Vegetable Growing.
I never had the opportunity to meet Dr. Bob Gough face-to-face, but I got to know him anyway. He was the author of the &#8220;Ask Dr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Grow Tabasco Sauce Step 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of a two-part blog post on how to plant, grow and bottle your own Tabasco sauce.
Well-known food writer Eugenia Bone once wrote there isn&#8217;t a condiment sitting in the refrigerator that can&#8217;t be homemade.
That idea stuck with me last season as I was deciding what to plant in my garden. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win a Copy of The Heirloom Life Gardener</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t put down my copy of The Heirloom Life Gardener, the fascinating story of how Jere Gettle started the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company. You can win a copy of the book that boldly states, &#8220;Anyone can start a garden.&#8221;
To enter the book giveaway, post a comment here on what gardening means to you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Small Tomato Gardening Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year I hedge my tomato-growing bets by planting both large and small tomatoes; heirloom and hybrids. 
This was a good year to plant different kinds of tomatoes in the garden because it&#8217;s been an odd gardening season.
Many gardeners I&#8217;ve heard from are wondering why their tomatoes aren&#8217;t producing like they should.
We owe most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plant a Strawberry Pot with Succulents</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I planted this succulent strawberry pot on a chilly day in April and here&#8217;s what it looks like today. I&#8217;m delighted at the results, especially the little tendrils growing down the sides of the pot.

If you&#8217;d like to plant one for your patio, here&#8217;s a link to a video how-to posted on my Lowe&#8217;s Garden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lemon Queen Sunflower Gardening for Bees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 13:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to plant your sunflower seeds and join the Great Sunflower Project for 2011.
The Great Sunflower Project is underway! Plant Lemon Queen Sunflowers this weekend and then mark your calendar for July 16. That&#8217;s the day of the Great Bee Count of 2011.
The Great Sunflower Project is my favorite citizen science effort. Every summer [...]]]></description>
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