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		<title>What&#8217;s Under the Snow?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This point in winter, just after the Solstice and during the general holiday season, always seems to me to be the most contemplative time during the year.  At least in terms of my life as a gardener. Oh, yeah.  I&#8217;m still digesting the experience of last year, thinking about what I want to do in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joelruss.inthekoots.com/2011/12/29/whats-under-the-snow/</link>
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		<title>Gardening Now &#8211; a gardener&#8217;s experience of early winter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is &#8220;gardening&#8221; in the literal sense of the word, and in the metaphoric. In the literal sense, for me right now it consists of harvesting the last of the lettuce and kale from our sun-heated greenhouse.  There&#8217;s no supplementary heat in there, and considering that our nighttime temps have gone below -12, it amazes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joelruss.inthekoots.com/2011/12/16/gardening-now-a-gardeners-view-of-early-winter/</link>
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		<title>DIY Sustainable-Tech Genius</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My gardening involvements at present consist of managing and harvesting lettuce and other leafies from our sun-heated greenhouse.  On the mental-work side, there&#8217;s planning for next year&#8217;s planting, and also researching information about how Kootenay food gardeners can succeed in the face of challenges like solanaceous blights and clubroot!  (These pursuits are ongoing, and I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joelruss.inthekoots.com/2011/11/18/diy-sustainable-tech-genius/</link>
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		<title>Increasing Soil Fertility, for Next Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As everyone realizes, growing plants on soil means that the plants will draw out nutrients from that soil.  Some soils start out in fertile condition, offering a high level of essential nutrients &#8211; and some don&#8217;t.  But in any case over time, there will be a draw-down of nutrients &#8211; mainly nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joelruss.inthekoots.com/2011/10/18/increasing-soil-fertility-for-next-year/</link>
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		<title>Early Start on Fall Garden Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve harvested garlic, onions, pears, apples, squash, hot peppers, and a few other things in the last ten days.  I&#8217;m now getting a jump on some of the autumn work, since I will be away for some of the early part of the season.  We&#8217;ve got fall leafies growing in the greenhouse.  I put in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joelruss.inthekoots.com/2011/09/29/early-start-on-fall-garden-work/</link>
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		<title>Another seed-starting experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a small way, I&#8217;ve resumed my informal experiments with volcanic-rock dust or powder as a soil amendment for plant starting.  I reported on some results with the powder in the spring (see my post of April 26).  In that case, I was starting several kinds of plants using a bagged potting soil we bought.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joelruss.inthekoots.com/2011/08/20/another-seed-starting-experiment/</link>
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		<title>An Effective (&amp; Homemade) Weeding Tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a handy little garden tool that can be made in a home shop. I designed it as an alternative to the common three-fingered small garden claw. Experienced gardeners know a number of tools and pieces of equipment can be valuable for dealing with garden weeds &#8211; examples being the rototiller and hoe for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joelruss.inthekoots.com/2011/08/12/an-effective-home-made-weeding-tool/</link>
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		<title>Coin of Two Sides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re growing a variety of corn &#8211; Hooker&#8217;s Sweet Corn &#8211; that is able to form ears even in a year like this one, with its cool nights, lots of overcast and rain late into the gardening season, high humidity, and a minimum of truly hot days.  The ears of corn are forming now on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joelruss.inthekoots.com/2011/08/05/coin-of-two-sides/</link>
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		<title>Standing Tall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have heard the expression &#8220;knee high by the first of July,&#8221; referring to a standard for gauging the progress of sweet corn here in Central Kootenay. In the past, usually having simply direct-seeded corn into our garden, we&#8217;ve rarely achieved quite that stature in our corn plants by July 1. Nevertheless, most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joelruss.inthekoots.com/2011/07/08/standing-tall/</link>
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		<title>Date on the Calendar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Slocan Valley Garden Tour has taken place for many years, and Lou and I have usually gone on it to enjoy seeing other people&#8217;s places. This year, organizers asked us if we&#8217;d put our place on the tour &#8211; and we decided to try it. Sunday June 19 was the designated date for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://joelruss.inthekoots.com/2011/06/26/date-on-a-calendar/</link>
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