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	<title>Puttering In The Garden</title>
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	<description>A Blog About Gardening in a San Francisco Bay Area Yard</description>
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		<title>Leaf Drop on Citrus</title>
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A few weeks ago, I gave our citrus bushes their first application of fertilizer for the season. I have read repeatedly how important it is to fertilize citrus with nitrogen especially in late winter to stimule them to grow and bloom in the spring.  I have been using a 16-16-16 all-purpose chemical fertilizer on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.putteringinthegarden.com/2010/03/07/leaf-drop-on-citrus/</link>
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		<title>Apricot in Bloom</title>
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Our 8 year old Blenheim apricot tree just finished its bloom. I took this picture of it last weekend. It started blooming about 2 weeks ago. It was a beautiful but brief bloom. The rain we had here on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week knocked off most of the remaining petals. Our peach, nectarine, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.putteringinthegarden.com/2010/03/05/apricot-in-bloom/</link>
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		<title>Hyacinth Re-Bloom</title>
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In the fall of 2008, we planted hyacinth bulbs in our yard. Many of those bulbs are blooming for the second time this week. I was surprised to see them bloom a second time with only slightly less vigor than last year, because I have read that we don&#8217;t get enough winter chill in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.putteringinthegarden.com/2010/02/28/hyacinth-re-bloom/</link>
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		<title>Severe Pruning of Fruit Trees</title>
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I added a new Arctic Rose nectarine tree to my collection of backyard fruit trees a few weeks ago. The first picture above shows what the tree looked like after I brought it home from the nursery, and the second picture shows how it looked after I pruned it severely, cutting off most of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.putteringinthegarden.com/2010/02/20/severe-pruning-of-fruit-trees/</link>
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		<title>Winter Rainbow Carrots</title>
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Last spring, I planted rainbow carrot seeds in our vegetable garden. I planted a second crop of rainbow carrot seeds in our garden last September. This week, I harvested the remaining carrots from the spring crop. The first picture above shows some of the red, purple, white, and yellow carrots I harvested. The only color [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.putteringinthegarden.com/2010/01/24/winter-rainbow-carrots/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Still Blooming in Our Garden</title>
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As the daylight hours dwindle in autumn, so do the blooms in our garden. But a few of our plants are still managing to put on a nice show of flowers. Some of our rose bushes are producing their last bloom of the year, including our black magic roses as shown in the first picture. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.putteringinthegarden.com/2009/10/18/whats-still-blooming-in-our-garden/</link>
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		<title>How Economical Is a Vegetable Garden?</title>
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It may not be possible to produce 100% of one&#8217;s fruit and vegetable needs in a suburban backyard garden.  But after my second season of growing a vegetable garden, I have been thinking about exactly how much our vegetable garden has reduced our food bill. 
Below I have listed the approximate amount of produce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.putteringinthegarden.com/2009/10/11/how-economical-is-a-vegetable-garden/</link>
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