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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>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>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>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>Still Life with Heirloom Vegetables</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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My mid-summer garden is filled with heirloom fruits and vegetables including some adorable round baby squash, long purple eggplant, tomatillos, 7 different kinds of sweet and hot peppers, cucumbers, herbs, and 11 varieties of tomatoes. Not shown are the trombetta squash that are just now starting to take off.
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		<title>Show What You Grow at Denver County Fair</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybunny ready for the Denver County Fair?
The first-ever Denver County Fair is just a few weeks away! The fun begins on July 28 and ends July 31 at the National Western Complex.
If you&#8217;ve wanted to win a blue ribbon for your gardening efforts, the fair is your chance to show what you grow.
WesternGardeners.com is sponsoring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Doesn&#8217;t Stop Plant a Row Gardening</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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Saturday was a cold day for one of the Plant a Row for the Hungry kickoff events, but that didn&#8217;t dampen gardening spirits. Volunteers, Elizabeth Staton and Cynthia Pasquale, kept busy by handing out free garden starter kits to more than 100 gardeners.
The kits included free vegetable and herb seeds from Colorado seed companies BBB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plant a Row Colorado Gardening Gets Going</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jodi Torpey</dc:creator>
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I want to send a special &#8220;Thank You!&#8221; to all the Plant a Row for the Hungry volunteers in the Denver Metro area who helped at the kickoff events on Saturday. That includes dedicated volunteers who helped hand out the free garden starter kits and gardeners who volunteered to help plant extra produce in their [...]]]></description>
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