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		<title>Update from the Garden &#8211; February 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The garden this year is going to be huge; we&#8217;ve done some clearing and are looking forward to a good gardening year. I know it will be a lot of hard work, but I&#8217;m looking forward to it. I hope we don&#8217;t have a drought as we typically do. We are on well water, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Spring 2010 &#8211; Sprouting Seed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good Friday was April 2 this year, and typically in the south you get your garden in by then. I don&#8217;t worry about Good Friday being a &#8220;deadline.&#8221; I study the weather, expected rain, and current temperatures. We plant differently each year. This year, we chose to start planting the Monday after Easter, which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loose Leaf Lettuce Varieties &#8211; Growing Your Own Greens</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lettuce Varieties If you want to grow lettuce, you first need to decide what types of lettuce varieties you want to plant. Crisphead lettuce forms into a round head and the lettuce is all bunched up together; these are your typical Iceberg types of lettuce such as those at your local grocery and are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Canning Supplies and Equipment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home canning supplies, tools and equipment are available to make your job easier. First of all, purchase jars that are designed for high heat. The most popular manufacturers of home canning jars are Mason, Ball, and Kerr. Canning jars are purchased in cases or boxes and usually contain metal lids, screw bands, and jar labels. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving Peppers Homegrown on the Ranch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people think of preserving peppers, most often they think of freezing them or drying them. Those are fine ways to preserve peppers, but here at the ranch we tend to go a little further with our pepper preservation by making hot pepper vinegar, salsa, piccalilli, chow-chow, hot chili sauce, hot pepper sauce, spicy homemade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest Begins &#8211; Summer 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late June. Harvesting plenty of zipper peas, okra, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant. We&#8217;ve got Sweet 100 tomato plants almost reaching up to the second story and summer is far from over. Lots of melon blooms on the cantaloupe vines. We were fortunate with lots of rain up until now. Every day is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epsom Salt as a Fertilizer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the idea of organic gardening. I try as hard as possible to only garden organically. I love using organic fertilizer in my vegetable and flower gardens. I am no saint, and occasionally I find it necessary for some reason or other to use other products, but primarily I believe in using organic fertilizers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daisy Mae My Mule</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daisy Mae and I have been together a long time. Daisy Mae is &#8220;My Mule.&#8221; LB&#8217;s daddy used a real mule to plow. But times have changed, so I use Daisy Mae. Daisy Mae is the most reliable &#8220;mule&#8221; I ever used. She is a Yard Machine. Sometimes I get really tuckered out after a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomato Leaf Curl</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If using a FeedReader you can Print This Post Here. I have one tomato variety, an heirloom known as Mountain Pride, that produces some really nice tomatoes that are crack resistant, disease resistant, and determinate so this is one variety that works well for container gardening. I noticed it was the only variety in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tomato Blossom Abort and Horn Worms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If using a FeedReader you can Print This Post Here. I noticed something on my tomatoes in the blossom clusters. I have seen this before, yet never had the time to find the cause. I tried to Google a cause and a remedy, but I could not seem to come across the right keywords or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Upstarts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 21:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the end of May here in the Deep South. I just did one of my many daily &#8220;tours&#8221; through the garden(s), and I saw: Lots of green tomatoes on the tomato vines. I saw miniature Ichiban eggplant on my container eggplant. My larger eggplant variety has several blooms on it and has grown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Compost Bin A NECESSITY</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 17:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, I was reading an article in a gardening magazine. This is funny. I was flipping through the pages, and there was a full page ad for some plastic garbage bag company, I don&#8217;t know, GLAD or something like that. Now the kicker is this. The garbage bag was stretched out ready to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Homegrown Tomato</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live in the South. We grow tomatoes. We grow them indoors, outdoors, on our patios, in our greenhouses, we grow them. Lots of varieties. We love them. I love them. Everybody grows at least ONE tomato plant here. Even my neighbor that rarely goes outside or gardens, even she plants one lone solitary tomato [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Potato Barrel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 13:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LB found a neat garden supply store that has these wonderful white plastic 50 gallon drum style barrels for only $15 each. They are great for growing potatoes and aging compost. I love growing potatoes in a barrel. If you want to cut right to the chase then click here to see a bullet list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Corn Seed Thieves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 00:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love animals. All kinds (except snakes). I wish I liked good snakes, but I just can&#8217;t, I&#8217;ve tried. Normally I just don&#8217;t fool with corn. It ain&#8217;t worth it. I have grown it, but we have lots of birds and squirrels. This year, I said what the heck, let&#8217;s do it again. I hesitate [...]]]></description>
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