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		<title>Crispy Hosta Leaves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last month I felt like I was gardening in a blast furnace. Our daily temperatures hovered in the high 90’s and even reached above a 100 several times. The plants, as well as myself, felt the pain.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suzybalesgarden.com/blog2/?p=225</link>
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		<title>Rabbits in the Vegetable Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picking flowers from your own garden is the best way to get to know your plants. Often I make discoveries. A few weeks ago, I found a rabbit’s nest among the chamomile in the vegetable garden. The mother had dug a shallow bowl in the soft earth, delivered her young and then covered them up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scale Insects on Garden Foliage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Picking flowers and foliage from my garden for indoor arrangements lets me examine plants closer than I normally would. For example the gold-leaved dogwood along the driveway looks beautiful to all who drive by, but once I cut some of its foliage to use in a floral foam wreath, I discovered the back of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suzybalesgarden.com/blog2/?p=216</link>
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		<title>Nature Deficit Disorder is Rampant among our Young</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Children across the country are spending less time outdoors getting to know their natural surroundings and more time on computers, televisions and cell phones. They are alienated from nature.
The cure for Nature Deficit Disorder starts by leaving no child inside. Take a child for a visit to a botanical garden near you. For both of you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suzybalesgarden.com/blog2/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Gusty Winds and Downpours</title>
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Several weeks after the worst snowfall of the century we were hit with three days of gale force winds and heavy downpours. 51.4 inches of rain has fallen on my clay soil since October. The normal rainfall for the year is less, 49.69 inches. Our soil can’t absorb it and streams are forming along the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suzybalesgarden.com/blog2/?p=156</link>
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		<title>Yikes, Voles!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With teeth like a rabbit, a dark brown fir body and a tail like a rat, voles dine on bulbs and roots of plants. Digging tunnels under garden beds, they are the devil to dislodge. Now, while the beds are bare is good time to check for their tunnels and to set mousetraps.]]></description>
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		<title>The Northwest Flower &amp; Garden Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, our slumped economy has shut down flower shows across the country. The Northwest Flower &#38; Garden Show set in Seattle was in danger of closing last year. Luckily for us, it was bought and produced this year by the family owned, O’Loughlin Trade Shows, Inc.
I was privileged to be one of the speakers at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suzybalesgarden.com/blog2/?p=131</link>
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		<title>Porcupine Damage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We discovered that a family of porcupines is living under one of our cabins in the Adirondacks. Unfortunately, they  chose  a pair of white birch on the path to the front door as their dinner plate. Bark and wood  is part of their diet and what keeps them going in winter. If only they would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suzybalesgarden.com/blog2/?p=127</link>
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		<title>Swarms of Birds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last few days, swarms of birds have covered our lawn and driveway gorging themselves on grubs and seeds. They know my gardens are safe&#8211;chemical and pesticide free. I don&#8217;t even use chemical fertilizers, only compost. I think this is why I rarely find a Japanese beetle among my summer flowers. the birds have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suzybalesgarden.com/blog2/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Tomato Cages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proctecting tomato plants from animals.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.suzybalesgarden.com/blog2/?p=100</link>
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