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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>Safe Seed Question from a Beginning Gardener</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday I heard from a beginning gardener with a question about how to find non-GMO vegetable seeds for her first gardening efforts. 
Her Question
&#8220;You&#8217;ve been on my mind the past few days with all the talk about Monsanto and GMO seed.
Do you have a resource for buying seeds?
I&#8217;m going to start my  own [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetable Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomatoes]]></category>

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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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		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Guide to Rocky Mountain Vegetable Growing]]></category>

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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 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Preparing & Preserving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Grow Tabasco Sauce, Step 1, included information on growing Tabasco pepper plants from seed. Step 2 is an illustrated guide for using the fresh peppers to make your own Tabasco sauce.

After the Tabasco peppers have ripened to the perfect color of red, pick them from the plant, wash, and carefully remove the stems [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Preparing & Preserving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetable Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Container garden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pepper plants]]></category>
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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>Heirloom Gardening Seed Catalog Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Organic gardening]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baker Creek Seed Catalog review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In keeping in the spirit of The Heirloom Life Gardener book giveaway, here&#8217;s a short review of the Baker Creek Seed Company catalog for fans of heirloom gardening.
I had the chance to meet Jere Gettle, founder of Baker Creek Seed Company, at a garden writers trade show in Raleigh several years ago. I was delighted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gardening Means Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Cherrie LiFonti for winning The Heirloom Life Gardener in last week&#8217;s special book giveaway*.
I thought asking gardeners what gardening means to them was as a good way to share my review copy of a new gardening book. It turns out the giveaway resulted in much more.
I learned just how much gardening really means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win a Copy of The Heirloom Life Gardener</title>
		<link>http://www.westerngardeners.com/win-a-copy-of-the-heirloom-life-gardener.html</link>
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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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