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		<title>Announcing My New Blog</title>
		<link>http://zippysgarden.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/announcing-my-new-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve either been to this blog in the past, or you&#8217;re just newly arrived, you&#8217;ll note that I haven&#8217;t posted a dadgum thing on this blog in over a year. Yes, I&#8217;m still alive, and yes, my garden is still alive (even in this hot, dry Texas summer), I&#8217;ve just been, well, kinda busy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zippysgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3796259&amp;post=238&amp;subd=zippysgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evening Blessing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zippythepoet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often the life of a gardner consists of a regimen of never-ending chores &#8212; water the plants, look out for pests, kill or repel insect pests and diseases (non-toxic-chemically, of course), set up trellises, construct cat (and other varmint) fences to keep the critters from either using your veggie beds as a litter box or a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zippysgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3796259&amp;post=215&amp;subd=zippysgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Attack of the Squash Vine Borer 3</title>
		<link>http://zippysgarden.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/attack-of-the-squash-vine-borer-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 03:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight whilst meandering out in my garden, I came fact-to-face with my nemesis, the beast that every year since I have gardened has laid its wicked spawn that killed my beloved butternut squash three times. I have never laid eyes upon this evil vermin, only its slimy, icky, destructive progeny. Tonight I saw it, and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zippysgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3796259&amp;post=203&amp;subd=zippysgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beans and Squash</title>
		<link>http://zippysgarden.wordpress.com/2010/05/15/beans-and-squash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 03:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again this year I am trying to grow beans and squash. The first year, as an experiment, I planted some black-eyed peas in a container. They came up and produced a few pods, but not much. Last year I didn&#8217;t have much success with the Kentucky Wonder beans and bush/soup beans that I planted, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zippysgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3796259&amp;post=191&amp;subd=zippysgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Must Be Stopped!!!!</title>
		<link>http://zippysgarden.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/i-must-be-stopped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 18:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, when I went to my fave gardening shop in the whole universe, Natural Gardener, I was so proud of myself for showing great restraint in only buying compost, seaweed extract, bean innoculant and . . . seeds for a hummingbird garden. Didn&#8217;t buy a plant one, even though they were bursting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zippysgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3796259&amp;post=168&amp;subd=zippysgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Texas Spring Has Sprung!</title>
		<link>http://zippysgarden.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/spring-has-sprung/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Container Gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And yes, I am woefully behind in posting! My apologies, I&#8217;ve been kinda busy. Not to fear, however; yours truly has been feverishly (well, OK, maybe not that feverishly) working on her spring garden! However, without much work and a lot of spring rain, relatively cool temperatures (for Texas) and sun, my flower garden has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zippysgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3796259&amp;post=144&amp;subd=zippysgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OK, I Guess I&#8217;d Better Do a Little Posting</title>
		<link>http://zippysgarden.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/ok-i-guess-id-better-do-a-little-posting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zippythepoet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Square Foot Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cilantro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall gardening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egads &#8212; has it really been 3 months since I last posted?! My friend Ms. E enquired if there would be another Zippy post with the advent of my fall gardenings, and I kinda hemmed and hawed about that. Then I just got a comment on a post from last fall, and I thought, ya know, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zippysgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3796259&amp;post=137&amp;subd=zippysgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Ya Can’t Take the Heat, Stay Out of the Garden???</title>
		<link>http://zippysgarden.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/if-ya-can%e2%80%99t-take-the-heat-stay-out-of-the-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zippythepoet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Ms. E posted a comment (see here) and asks how well everything in the garden (including yers truly) is handling the stress of this ungodly Texas summer us folks down here in the buckle of the Bible Belt are enduring. Well, as my old boss Betty used to say, “It’s hotter than the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zippysgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3796259&amp;post=130&amp;subd=zippysgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Quicky Spring Update</title>
		<link>http://zippysgarden.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/a-quicky-spring-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s late and I need to get to bed, but since we are well into spring, and I haven&#8217;t posted anything except replies to comments, I figure I better give y&#8217;all a little update. My friend, Lazy Gardener, was a little concerned that I&#8217;d given up on gardening, but as I told her in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zippysgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3796259&amp;post=122&amp;subd=zippysgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year, and I Finally Gots the Greens!</title>
		<link>http://zippysgarden.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/happy-new-year-and-i-finally-gots-the-greens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zippythepoet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, my greens are not a fig newton of my imagination &#8212; they really do exist! I just finally got around to showing them to you. The greens in the pix above are just my mustard greens on the left, and my bok choy on the right &#8212; the photo doesn&#8217;t show you my kale [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zippysgarden.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3796259&amp;post=115&amp;subd=zippysgarden&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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