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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>Looking for Your Top Tomato Recommendations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m already thinking about which tomatoes to plant in my garden next year and I need some help.
What are your favorite varieties?
I&#8217;m collecting suggestions on my VegetableGardener.com blog in three categories:
Best medium-to-large tomato
Best small or cherry-size tomato
Best tomato for flavor
I&#8217;ve already received some great recommendations, but could use a few more. Please let me know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carved Pumpkin or Orange Tomato?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organic gardening]]></category>
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Thanks to a packet of free organic tomato seeds from Lake Valley Seed Company, I was able to grow some wonderful orange tomatoes in my vegetable garden this year. The tomatoes were beautiful to behold on the vine and equally lovely in salads, sandwiches and salsas.
You can read all about how the heirloom tomato Amana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Tomato Gardening Roundup of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For 2011, I grew six different varieties of large tomatoes and here are the results for four of them. The other two, Amana orange (an organic beefsteak) and Aunt Ruby&#8217;s German green (large green beefsteak) aren&#8217;t quite ready to pick yet.
But until they are, here&#8217;s the big tomato round-up for 2011. (I posted the small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Apple Wins Weird Veggie Gardening Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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Congratulations to Carrie Fritz of New Prague, Minn., for taking the top prize in the 3rd Annual Weird Veggie and Funny Fruit contest sponsored by WesternGardeners.com. Her Love Apple is actually three tomatoes that grew into the shape of one perfect heart. &#8220;Love Apples&#8221; (La Pomme D&#8217;Amour) is an old French term for tomatoes.
Our contest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pepper Varieties Good for Any Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results are in for the 2011 pepper trials in my Rocky Mountain garden. Here are seven varieties I&#8217;d recommend for any kind of gardening. Just for fun, can you guess which is the hottest pepper of the bunch?

The Red Mini Bell peppers, grown from seed purchased from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, did especially well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Make a Pesto of Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got basil?

Large leaf Italian basil like this can be whirled into a delicious pesto in less than 15 minutes. I cut back this plant by about half. Then washed and dried the leaves to fill 2 cups (tightly packed).

For a nice, creamy pesto I grated about 3 ounces of Parmesan in my food processor and [...]]]></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>Sphinx Hummingbird Moth Dazzles at Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other evening I caught a glimpse of a sphinx moth darting from petunia to petunia in the patio garden.
John grabbed his camera and captured this wonderful shot of a white-lined sphinx moth enjoying some of the Wave petunias Ball Horticultural Company sent me earlier this season to trial in my garden.

I like the Wave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture Perfect Peppers and Canna Lilies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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Each spring, the experts with Denver Parks and Recreation tend this raised planter in my neighborhood park. However, this is the first year for such an interesting combination of plants. Mixing yellow and red Canna lilies with ornamental peppers is a brilliant idea.

Right now the peppers are ripening and turning the same shades of yellow [...]]]></description>
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