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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>Oh Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Loam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BuffaLoam is a 100% organic, all-natural plant food and soil amendment known as &#8220;America&#8217;s First Fertilizer.&#8221;

The Diamond Tail Ranch in north-central Colorado has found a way into gardener&#8217;s hearts by recycling tons of manure from its herd of 700 American bison.
BuffaLoam is a 100% organic, all natural plant food and soil amendment for indoor and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complete Guide to Composting Book Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why buy bags of compost to help your gardening efforts when you can turn ordinary kitchen and yard waste into black gold?
I had the chance to talk with Chris McLaughlin for an article on compost tea I wrote for The Denver Post earlier this season.
Something Chris said during the interview stuck with me and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetable Gardening Made Easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vegetable gardeners in the Rocky Mountain states will find gardening can be a little easier and a lot more enjoyable with a new book from Cool Springs Press.
If you garden anywhere in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah or Wyoming, you have to get your hands on a copy of Guide to Rocky Mountain Vegetable Growing by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening Season Ends with Fall Clean-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearing out all vegetable garden debris is the first step toward next summer&#8217;s healthy plants.
You think I&#8217;d be glad to pull up the dead summer squash foliage after the ups and downs of growing it this year.
Early on I complained about the fruit not setting and having to pollinate the squash by hand.
Then I complained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rose Cottage a Warm Welcome to Raleigh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You had to &#8220;tweet to meet&#8221; for Wednesday evening&#8217;s tweet up at Rose Cottage in Raleigh, N.C.
After a long day of travel to the annual Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, it was a welcome change of pace to stroll through Raleigh&#8217;s historic district to Rose Cottage.
On the way to the GWA twibe tweet up, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planting tips for the fall garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crops with tasty roots, shoots, and leaves are nature’s way of making sure we get plenty of fresh vegetables even when the weather turns cold.

If you&#8217;ve never grown a fall garden, now&#8217;s the time to start. Besides the joy of bypassing expensive veggies in the produce aisle, many cool-season vegetables are also good for your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The great garlic harvest is about to begin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you planted garlic in the fall, it should be ready to harvest right now. The mature scapes on hardneck varieties signal the bulbs are ready in my garden.
I haven&#8217;t had the best luck growing garlic in my garden, even though most gardeners says there&#8217;s nothing to it; just plant it and it will grow.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grounds for gardening success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best use for coffee grounds is as an addition to the compost pile.
The &#8220;Grounds for your Garden&#8221; program started by Starbucks in 1999 is a terrific example of win-win-win-win in business.
By giving away tons of used coffee grounds, the company has been able to recycle a product it would normally throw away, frugal gardeners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogger Leah Ingram: Lasagna Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 13:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leah Ingram is a lifestyle expert and seasoned spokesperson who appears frequently in the media to discuss shopping, gift buying, eco-friendly topics and frugal living.
Her forthcoming book &#8220;Suddenly Frugal,&#8221; will be published in the Fall. Leah is also the creator of the Suddenly Frugal blog and I&#8217;m delighted she&#8217;s guest blogging here today about building [...]]]></description>
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