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			<title><![CDATA[Hang on to harvest season]]></title>
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			<author>(Dawn Needham)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[It's always tough to let go of gardening. I want to extend the season as much as possible, and my partner in gardening crime and I spend a lot of time planning garden interest as early as possible (what will bloom early in the spring?) and as late as possible (what will keep going and going in the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:02 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Asters provide fall color]]></title>
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			<author>(Marti Davenport)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[The roses, done. The phlox, a pleasant memory. The black-eyed Susans, fading away. But those hardy little asters are adding a wonderful splash of color to my garden right now.


I bought white ones a few years ago, transplanted some light-purple wild asters and this year added two new dark purple]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:13 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Geraniums for remembrance]]></title>
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			<author>(Dawn Needham)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Geraniums will always have a home in my garden.


As a new gardener, I resisted their charms. I thought they were cliche and oh-so-ordinary, totally boring.


Still, I was always drawn to them -- especially red ones. At the garden center, I'd pause by the geraniums and then move on. Finally,]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:23 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[An oasis of herbs]]></title>
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			<author>(Marti Davenport)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[I've already talked about my basil plants. But my little patio is also home to pots of rosemary, oregano, sage, garlic, dill and parsley. The rosemary and oregano are in their second year, having successfully wintered in my family room. The dill and parsley are from seed. The sage and garlic were]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:34 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Root stems for bushels of basil]]></title>
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			<author>(Marti Davenport)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[My patio is overflowing with pots of basil. It's all because I accidentally discovered that cut basil stems can be rooted.


I had run out of time to cook after cutting the stems. To keep the leaves fresh, I stuck the basil stems in a glass of water. Before I knew it a week or so had gone by, and]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:12 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Don't fall over, but it's time to think spring]]></title>
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			<author>(Dawn Needham)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[There's a lot of garden cleanup to do in the fall, and some gardeners find that depressing. But there's a remedy for that: Plant spring bulbs!


There's nothing like seeing the greening of the yard as the bulbs begin to peek out of the cold ground as the weather starts to warm. But to get to that]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:04 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[San Marzano season is here]]></title>
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			<author>(Dawn Needham)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Not only do the humans in our household adore San Marzano tomatoes, there's another fan: a deer! We've been losing the fruits of our labor and spotting deer tracks in our veggie garden.

We're trying some repellent now (our groundhog-busting predator urine apparently did not faze the deer) because]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:45 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Feeling overwhelmed? Tackle garden tasks one at a time]]></title>
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			<author>(Karen Auch)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Sometimes life happens in such a way that we are unable to even get out to the yard to look at it, much less do any maintenance.  It may be work schedules, vacation, health challenges or a myriad of other happenings that keep us from our yard work.  When this occurs, maintenance chores seem to]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 9:48 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Forecast: Chile weather ahead!]]></title>
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			<author>(Dawn Needham)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Salsa is one of my favorite things to make with our backyard harvest. We like to grow as many of the ingredients as possible.


Cilantro remains a frustrating mystery to me -- it always bolts and goes to seed before the rest of the ingredients are ripe. This year, I planted a second crop of seeds]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:17 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Battle lines drawn in the veggie garden]]></title>
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			<author>(Dawn Needham)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[I bragged earlier this season about my tomatillos, which are generally a bountiful harvest. I've had great luck with them over the years, and consequently, my freezers have been loaded with green gold. I saw no reason things would be different this year.

I was completely unprepared for the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:47 PM</pubDate>
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