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		<title>Blackberries in the Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being in California I never thought I could grow blackberries, but I was wrong! I came so close to ripping this out because it went a couple of years without producing anything and I ordered a thornless but this one has thorns. I&#8217;m so glad I wanted! Now it is producing delicious fruit.]]></description>
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		<title>Purple Artichokes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently planted some seeds for purple artichokes, and they have spouted. They are still very small put I&#8217;m hoping to get some that eventually look like these. Someone told me they get huge so I&#8217;m growing them in a pot so I can give them plenty of room. Has anyone ever grown them? Photo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cauliflower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my most beautiful vegetable garden creation yet! I started this in my raised bed and I&#8217;ve recently put netting over this bed to keep the cabbage butterflies out. So far everything is propering.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cottagewoodhill.com/?p=360</link>
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		<title>Lovely Bread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a pic of some freshly baked bread out of the oven. Got the recipe from the New York Times. It&#8217;s touted as a no-knead bread&#8230;just needs to sit on the counter for many hours. It&#8217;s definitely worth the wait!]]></description>
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		<title>Fresh figs from my volunteer tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flickr photo by Living in Monrovia I&#8217;m so excited my volunteer fig tree is producing its first crop. And they are beauties. We also got our first muskmelon today so I&#8217;m going to try eating them together&#8230;YUM.]]></description>
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		<title>My Volunteer is a Pumpkin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flickr photo by Living in Monrovia What I thought originally was a zucchini plant turned out to be pumpkin. I think at one point I put a whole pumpkin in my compost and after moving the composter to a new location, this is what happened! Okay by me&#8230;I was having a hard time deciding what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pomegranate Flower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flickr photo by Living in Monrovia I&#8217;ve had my Pomegranate bush/tree for 3 years now and it has yet to produce fruit. It does, however, put out some pretty flowers.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cottagewoodhill.com/?p=346</link>
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		<title>&quot;Ultra&quot; Dwarf D&#039;Anjou Pear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I occasionally buy plants from Home Depot, and couldn&#8217;t pass this one up. This &#8220;Ultra&#8221; Dwarf D&#8217;Anjou pear tree was only $18 and will do well in a container. I didn&#8217;t even know they came in &#8220;ultra&#8221; dwarf. I already have a larger pear tree, but you can&#8217;t have too many pears in my book. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cottagewoodhill.com/?p=265</link>
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		<title>Protect Your Bees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flickr photo by Melissa A I just finished watching a poignant PBS video (watched the whole thing online!), Silence of the Bees, about honey bees disappearing around the world. Although I had heard about this problem, called Colony Collapse Disorder, I didn&#8217;t realize the severity of it, and hardly ever thought about how most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cottagewoodhill.com/?p=250</link>
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		<title>Where does your manure come from?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always keeping my eye out for information about the safety of the food chain and the dangers of industrial farming practices, and today ran across a story on the change.org website about fertilizer—particularly manure. Sure, we all know that milk without antibiotics is better for us (so we don&#8217;t build up resistance in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cottagewoodhill.com/?p=237</link>
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