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	<title>Southwest Florida Gardening</title>
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	<description>Gardening Tips &#38; Tricks for the Sub-Tropic Gulf Coast</description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Spring!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope Mother Nature is gentle with me... I really, really need some fresh veggies!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ednakelly.com/its-spring/</link>
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		<title>Mango Tree</title>
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Dad and I planted a mango tree today.
It&#8217;s not very big, maybe 2 feet tall, but hopefully, it will do well. We put it by the gate in front of the kennel building. If it grows, it will provide some much needed shade from the morning sun.
It&#8217;s near the compost bin so it should be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ednakelly.com/mango-tree/</link>
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		<title>The Chicken Coop &#8211; that flew the coop</title>
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Remember the lovely canopy we installed on our chicken coop? Well, Sunday it  &#8220;flew the coop&#8221;.
It was a windy day with gusts nearly 30 mph and when I went out to gather eggs, I saw the canopy, belly up, legs sticking straight up into the air, lodged against the fence in our goat pasture.
My first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic Vinaigrette</title>
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Here&#8217;s a basic, simple vinaigrette that can be varied to suit your taste. It&#8217;s perfect for drizzling on those tender greens or even on grilled vegetables.
1/2 cup olive oil
1/3 cup vinegar
1 tablespoon Dijon-style mustard
1/4 cup sliced scallions, some of the green part included
1/2 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground pepper to taste
Whisk everything together thoroughly. Let sit for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ednakelly.com/basic-vinaigrette/</link>
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		<title>Planting A Raised Bed Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Planting a raised bed garden is a simple process. By now, you&#8217;ve built your garden framework, mixed your perfect soil and everything is ready for the fun part.
In his latest revision of &#8220;Square Foot Gardening&#8221;, Mel Bartholomew recommends actually building a grid and leaving it on your bed, rather than stretching string across to form [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ednakelly.com/planting-a-raised-bed-garden/</link>
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		<title>Roselle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roselle, or Hibiscus Sabdariffa, is a new plant in my garden this year. It&#8217;s edible, of course, and is an extremely attractive plant. The leaves are a nice shade of green but the stems are bright red. The flowers on my plants are a pale dusty pink.
Detailed, but fairly technical, information on roselle can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ednakelly.com/roselle/</link>
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		<title>Starfruit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things we planted when my sister and I moved to this little farm was a starfruit (carambola) tree. We bought it at Echo in Ft. Myers, my favorite nursery for tropical food plants, making sure to get the sweet variety.
It will soon be two years since we planted that little tree. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Build a Raised Bed Garden?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why build a raised bed garden? There are a number of reasons:

They are attractive
They are easier on your back (once you&#8217;ve built them)
They grow more plants in less space
They save on resources like water and fertilizer
They let you grow a garden on otherwise poor soil

We&#8217;ve already talked about some of these points. Let&#8217;s look at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ednakelly.com/why-build-a-raised-bed-garden/</link>
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		<title>New Chicken House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the little day-old chicks we got back in May aren&#8217;t so little these days. They out-grew their homemade brooder in short order and then out-grew the larger pen I made, still with a light bulb for heat on cool nights. Once they didn&#8217;t need the extra heat, I moved them to an 8 ft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ednakelly.com/new-chicken-house/</link>
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		<title>Plant Spacing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the back of every seed packet, you&#8217;ll find the recommended plant spacing. It will be something like &#8220;space 12 inches, rows 3 feet apart&#8221;. You may wonder if that implies that plants are larger in one direction than the other, based on that recommendation for plant spacing.
Truth is, in the example above, the plants [...]]]></description>
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