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	<title>Garden Prattles &#124; In a Vermont Garden, a Gardening and Composting Blog &#187; Garden Planning</title>
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		<title>Minty Compost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, it is hot!  My garden is, well, out there, and I am in here and that is fine with me.  Up north here we are not used to this kind of heat and it shuts me down.  I was up early this morning picking black raspberries for breakfast and came into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Procession Has Begun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blossoms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delphiniums]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, the tulips and daffodils bloomed and I battled weeds in early spring.  Now my perennials are doing what I feared they would not.  Gaining ground with amazing growth, they are taking over any bare soil and filling in beyond my expectations.  I always stick that new perennial a little too close to its more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ducklings!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 10:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt about it, ducklings are cute.  The entire family is  taken with them and we are all wondering at the fact that they were  originally purchased for eating and hoping that they will grow up to be  ugly and mean.  This is a new venture for us.  My husband [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minor Spring Setback?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fruit blossoms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peppers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tomatoes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Snow!  I have lived in the North long enough that it doesn&#8217;t surprise me when it makes a spring appearance.  There is that fresh new snow smell and the little puffs look quite exquisite balanced on my red tulips.  At least that is how I felt yesterday, but it is still snowing a day later.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germination!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eggplant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glacier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peppers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seeding]]></category>
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Germination!


Most of my seeds are nestled in their warm burrows now and some have dared to sprout!  The beginning of a whole new season.  One week ago, March 20th, I seeded my tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, celery, parsley, basil and a few flowers.   With such a short tomato season, I am desperate to prolong it if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeds!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theresa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have just completed my order.  It is late, but the seeds should arrive just in time to start my onions.  It is so much fun ordering seeds.  In fact with catalogues piled around me and my seed spreadsheet laid out, I declared as if I had found a brand new pastime, “This is so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Provider vs. the Gold of Bacau</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harvesting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[beans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past eight years, excluding last summer, I have grown Provider bush beans.  They were my prolific, full proof, canning, freezing, fresh eating green bean.  Last year I turned my back on them.  Completely disregarding any common sense I have, I planted six different varieties of string beans, everything from the french bean, Fin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Interlude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garden Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week my 4 year old son asked me numerous times if we could dig in the garden.  In his young mind, without a glance out the window, he was completely prepared to shove his kid sized spade into the soft garden earth and let go of the fact that there was two feet of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isn&#8217;t it Early?</title>
		<link>http://www.gardenprattles.com/isnt-it-early/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seed catalogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We returned from an out of town, Thanksgiving trip a few nights ago to the notorious stack of mail on the dining room table.  I was shocked to find it peppered with seed catalogs!  I had already received two catalogs earlier in the month.  It is early, isn&#8217;t it?  In past years, I came back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to Put it All</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garden Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organizing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been pulling armloads and cart loads of stuff out of the garden these past couple weeks.  It is an exercise in patience, as with freezing temperatures perhaps days away, I know composting will have to wait.  And so the question is where to put all of this compost stuff until it can be [...]]]></description>
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