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	<title>Cultivating The Love Apple</title>
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		<title>Lots of Pictures, Not So Much Text.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have lots of garden pictures for you to go &#8220;Oooooh, pretty!&#8221; over, but not much time to talk about them.  Everything is growing well, I have lots more green tomatoes, and we have a new perennial bed in the front.  Here&#8217;s the pics:
New beds:

Various flowers from new bed:




My funky potato plants actually had some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patriotgoose.com/mike/index.php/2008/07/11/lots-of-pictures-not-so-much-text/</link>
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		<title>The Update I Meant To Do Weeks Ago.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi!  Errr, long time no post.  I keep meaning to do more updates, but it usually breaks down that I either have time to blog about gardening, or actually DO gardening.  And we all know which one wins that competition.
So, a quick update since we last talked.  May was cold.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patriotgoose.com/mike/index.php/2008/06/19/the-update-i-meant-to-do-weeks-ago/</link>
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		<title>My Pal Manure, aka Going Organic.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve decided to try going completely organic this year.   It&#8217;s not too big of a step since I&#8217;ve never used pesticides or herbicides.   But I have used chemical fertilizers in the past to give my plants a boost, as my soil is 90% sand and doesn&#8217;t have much nutrients (they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patriotgoose.com/mike/index.php/2008/05/05/my-pal-manure-aka-going-organic/</link>
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		<title>I Expect the Police to Show Up Soon.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an area in my basement where I start my seeds under florescent light.  I set it up last year because I wanted to heirloom tomatoes and most of the varieties are only available by seed.  No problem.  I put hung the two lights I had from chains, so they could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patriotgoose.com/mike/index.php/2008/04/23/i-expect-the-police-to-show-up-soon/</link>
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		<title>Garlic Update and New Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So most of the garlic I planted last fall is coming up and looks pretty good.  Here&#8217;s a picture from a few days ago.

Looks like I am indeed going to rolling in garlic in a few months.   Fortunately it keeps well if you dry it out correctly.  Unfortunately the extra garlic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patriotgoose.com/mike/index.php/2008/04/21/garlic-update-and-new-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Seed Savers and Tomato Politics.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love Seed Savers (http://www.seedsavers.org).   But I hate tomato politics.  First the love:
Seed Savers is an organization whose mission is to save the genetic diversity of plants.  They do this by collecting seeds of different plants, but more importantly, they encourage people to grow the plants.  Seeds locked in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patriotgoose.com/mike/index.php/2008/04/21/seed-savers-and-tomato-politics/</link>
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		<title>Holy growth, Batman!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was going to wait a few more weeks before re-potting my basement tomatoes, maybe up to 4 inch pots, and then after a few more weeks pot them up to the 6 inch pots that would be their final residence.  Today I went down and spotted something that made me pot them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patriotgoose.com/mike/index.php/2008/03/09/holy-growth-batman/</link>
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		<title>1 Month Birthday.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some pictures of my toms taken yesterday on March 1st.  That&#8217;s their 1 month birthday since they were planted.   Hmmm, but would that be their conception day and their actual birthday be when they were born (emerged) from the soil?  When does tomato life begin?   I don&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patriotgoose.com/mike/index.php/2008/03/02/1-month-birthday/</link>
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		<title>New and Shiny!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, check out my new look!  It was designed by my beautiful, intelligent, and creative wife. [kiss]  She normally charges big money for something this shiny, so I guess I&#8217;ll pay her off in tomatoes this summer.     It&#8217;s red and green!  And check out the huge honking tomato! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patriotgoose.com/mike/index.php/2008/02/27/new-and-shiny/</link>
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		<title>Yes, I KNOW it&#8217;s still winter&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proof here:

This is what my backyard looks like after the 16 inches of snow we got on Wednesday.  The winds blew that into a 4-ft high drift across the back sidewalk.  My back still hurts from digging through it.  I felt like a WW I trencher and considered putting in some machine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.patriotgoose.com/mike/index.php/2008/02/08/yes-i-know-its-still-winter/</link>
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