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		<title>Carrots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The carrots are ready! Just in time for my kitchen remodel, too. Fortunately, I should be able leave these in the ground until it freezes and they will keep on growing, and be just fine. I think carrot soup (in a crock pot) would be an easy meal to make without a kitchen &#8211; though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eggplant: Another Summer Favorite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We grew three varieties this summer &#8211; Rosa Blanca (pink), Snowy White, and Black. This weekend, I think I&#8217;ll make some pita bread and baba ganouj.]]></description>
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		<title>Cantaloupe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve never successfully grown melon before, so it was really neat to walk out to the garden last weekend and see a whole bunch of these small, ripe fruits. I brought in about 15 fruits that had fallen off the vines. They are much smaller than the cantaloupe you typically find at a grocery store [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dehydrated Prize of the Trials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Prize of the Trials Cherry Tomato is probably my favorite tomato to grow&#8230; and to eat. Even our terribly blighted tomato plants have been producing these like crazy this summer. They are perfect little sweet orange tomatoes, and we&#8217;ve never had a problem with blossom end rot or cracks. They are quite a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jimmy Nardello&#8217;s Heirloom Peppers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am 90% certain that most of the peppers pictured above are Jimmy Nardello&#8217;s Sweet Italian Frying Pepper. If I&#8217;m wrong, someone please correct me! I decided not to label my peppers this year because I figured by the looks of them, I&#8217;d know which was which when they were ready. Silly me. I know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vegarden.com/2010/jimmy-nardellos-heirloom-peppers/</link>
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		<title>Sweet Refrigerator Pickles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know that summer is in full swing when the cucumbers are ready! Sweet Refrigerator Pickles 4 wide mouth pint mason jars 1 head of dill per pint 3-4 slicing cucumbers 1 large onion 2 banana peppers (or hot peppers) 4 cloves garlic 2 cups white vinegar 1 cup sugar 2 tsp mustard seeds 1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vegarden.com/2010/sweet-refrigerator-pickles/</link>
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		<title>Luffa (sponge gourd) Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ordered three varieties of luffa (sponge gourds) this year. The one above, Rama F1 (hybrid), is supposed to be edible. Maybe we&#8217;ll try that next year. I wanted to grow them on our deck in pots, to see if they would vine out and cover the railing. They did a pretty good job, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vegarden.com/2010/luffah-update/</link>
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		<title>New Compost Bin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I was getting kind of sick of our composting system (piling up compost behind the garden and blocking it off with skids so that Puck won&#8217;t eat it), and so I built this. It is made out of untreated 1&#215;4 and 1&#215;6 pine boards. Chris treated it with linseed oil after it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vegarden.com/2010/new-compost-bin/</link>
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		<title>Melons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had some extra garden space this spring, and decided to pick up some cantaloupe, honeydew, and watermelon seeds when I was out running errands one afternoon. We tried a couple of melon plants last year, but they didn&#8217;t produce any sizable fruit. These are doing really well, and are quite healthy. They don&#8217;t appear [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vegarden.com/2010/melons/</link>
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		<title>Mid-Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been incredibly busy with work, and the garden seems to change faster than I have time to spend in it! We have cauliflower, broccoli, turnips, potatoes, beans &#8230; and by the time 5:00 roles around, all I want to do is crack open a cold beer and not think about making dinner. I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
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