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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day Plant Market Special Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 16:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in the Denver area on Sunday, please join Plant a Row for the Hungry at a special Plant Market at Saint John&#8217;s Cathedral.
The Market will offer a beautiful variety of colorful annual bedding plants, fragrant herbs, strawberries, and three kinds of tomatoes grown by City Floral. Donations will benefit the Nursery Play Garden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Tips for Organic Lawn Care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to take the safe lawns pledge.
That lush green lawn that looks so natural is kept that way unnaturally because of a diet of synthetic chemical fertilizers and toxic herbicides.
This year, instead of taking care of the lawn in the conventional way, gardeners should challenge themselves to use fewer chemicals in their landscapes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Grow Tasty Tomatillos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s celebrate Cinco de Mayo with the lively taste of tomatillo!
While planting tomatoes this season, be sure to add a couple of tomatillo plants to your gardening efforts.
Classic Mexican dishes need the lively taste of tomatillo to roast, grill or simmer into a chile verde sauce or use raw in salsa, guacamole or gazpacho.
Tomatilllo (toh-mah-TEE-yoh) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening on the Cheap in Cheyenne</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 19:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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A big thank you to the Laramie County Master Gardeners in Cheyenne, Wyo., for the fabulous Western hospitality they showed us during our recent trip there. John and I had a wonderful time getting to know our new friends to the north&#8211;just 90 minutes from Denver.

The group invited me to visit on April 21 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands of Donated Seeds for Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to five different seed companies, the Plant a Row for the Hungry garden starter kits are full of potential.
The Plant a Row volunteers are getting ready for the campaign&#8217;s kickoff events in May. Thanks to our generous sponsors, the free garden starter kits will be full of gardening goodies this year.
We hope volunteer gardeners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Gardening Book Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrate Earth Day 2012 by entering to win Jane Shellenberger&#8217;s new book, Organic Gardener&#8217;s Companion: Growing Vegetables in the West. 
If you grow a vegetable garden in the West, you need this book! It&#8217;s a complete guide to growing an organic garden in the Rocky Mountain West.
Jane is the publisher and editor of Colorado Gardener, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lettuce Grow in Small Spaces</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was such a good response to my post about how to grow round baby carrots, I thought I&#8217;d share another garden baby for small-space gardening.
&#8216;Garden Babies&#8217; butterhead lettuce is a cool-season leafy green that&#8217;s easy to grow in a container. I admit I fell for this variety from Renee’s Garden Seeds simply because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Round Carrots are Fun to Grow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now&#8217;s the time to plant cool-season vegetables and round baby carrots are a top crop.
I’d never been interested in growing carrots before, until I planted round &#8216;Romeo&#8217; carrot seeds from Renee&#8217;s Garden a few seasons ago.
All I did was sprinkled the seeds on top of the soil of a large container, covered them with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Style Birdhouses for Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beautifully-designed Bodega Birdhouses are featured in the Spring 2012 issue of Leaf Magazine. The magazine says these birdhouses are part of a collection of &#8220;contemporary, environmentally responsible affordable items with high style&#8221; offered by online retailer aHa! Modern Living.
The birdhouses come in three styles, including Bungalow (shown here), Tower and Chalet. Each stoneware birdhouse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Plants for Gardening, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday&#8217;s Grow gardening section in the Denver Post featured an article I wrote about eight great new  plants for 2012. Speaking of new plants&#8230;here&#8217;s part 2 of New Plants for Gardening, an article I wrote for The Post in 2006. Please see the blog post from March 30 for Part 1.
Every year Welby Gardens [...]]]></description>
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