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		<title>Harvest Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a cool summer, and everything was late, oh so late. But finally the harvesting has begun. This is why I garden! Cucumbers are finally coming into their own. These were grown in an Earthbox &#8211; this is the first year for me growing cucumbers in an earthbox, and clearly, they are thriving. Any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Give Up, Never Surrender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peppers seem to thrive in containers. As cold as the spring was, and as late as summer was in arriving, the peppers are still thriving this year! I raised 90 pepper plants, sweet and hot, from seed, and they were doing great up until a purchased plant brought aphids to the entire batch. By the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silvery Fir continues to surprise!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Silvery Fir Tree tomato, in the small hanging basket, has been almost the only tomato up until now to produce any ripe fruit this year! Other plants are JUST now starting to ripen fruit, but what an amazingly late year it has been. Meanwhile, nothing stops this intrepid little plant. Such a small container, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garlic Harvest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garlic has been harvested, cured and cleaned. Below is a photo of the result. Not enough garlic planted this year, I can clearly see that now! And no really long storing varieties. There will be tears and gnashing of teeth when we run out and have to buy them! I will have to do better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silvery Fir Tree Tomato</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past couple of years I have grown the Tumbling Tom tomato in a hanging basket. It produced well enough, and since it&#8217;s a very early producer I grew it again. It&#8217;s not a very exciting tomato though. This year, I decided to try a Silvery Fir Tree in my hanging basket. So far, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a difference from last year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just looking through photos of the garden from last year, and found this photo: Wow! This year I have only a few green tomatoes as yet on my many plants. Granted, they went in the ground two weeks later this year&#8230; but it seems we are still way behind this year. My cucumbers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fennel in Earthbox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I harvested the first fennel from one of my earthboxes. Last year I grew fennel for the first time ever, in containers, not in earthboxes, but I let it go to far and it bolted and flowered before I got to them, so I just let them be for the bees to enjoy, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earthbox garlic harvest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything is behind this year it seems. Spring was cold and rainy. Summer never seemed to want to arrive. Crops were late or failed to germinate. I fell behind in even posting anything to my blog, for a variety of reasons. But: Here I am again: This year was my first season growing garlic in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boelstoddard.com/earthbox-garlic-harvest/</link>
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		<title>Snakefly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday George found this very interesting looking insect in the garden. It turns out it is a snakefly &#8211; I got an ID from Davesgarden.com, which is a great site for all things gardening. It&#8217;s a beneficial insect, predates on many garden pests, like aphids and others. I had never seen one before today! Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.boelstoddard.com/snakefly/</link>
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		<title>Such a cold and rainy spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things are so late this year. Usually I have most everything planted and done this time of year. I did get part of my tomato plants (11) in the ground yesterday (+4 in earthboxes), but that&#8217;s just about 3 weeks later than usual. And I was hoping to get a little time to be in [...]]]></description>
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