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		<title>Tomato Report for Houston</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomatoes have been excellent in my Houston vegetable garden.  They always seem to be best in dry years when the amount of water can be controlled.  Merced was easily the best again. I think I still have 2 or 3 seed left for next year, but then that will be it for Merced.  The &#8220;Merced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houstonvegetablegarden.com/index.php/2011/05/22/tomato-report/</link>
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		<title>Back in Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have had a number of technical issues with the blog, primarily from spammer registering and overloading the system until it crashes.  Some changes have been made to hopefully stop this and keep the blog up.  You will no longer be asked to register to post but all posts will be moderated.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houstonvegetablegarden.com/index.php/2011/05/22/back-in-action/</link>
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		<title>Gearing up for the Houston Spring Vegetable Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it is time to get started on the spring Houston vegetable garden even though it will be a couple of months before much is planted outdoors. Tomato seed need to be started indoors under a grow light now. This year I will try a new variety, P324 B Florida 47 VFF from Stokes Seed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houstonvegetablegarden.com/index.php/2011/01/02/gearing-up-for-the-houston-spring-vegetable-garden/</link>
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		<title>Transplanting Fall Vegetables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some advice on transplanting to Houston vegetable gardeners:  I sow a lot of extras seed to make sure I get a good stand of whatever I am planting.  Seed are cheap on the scale of a backyard garden; so it make sense to err on the side of getting a well spaced stand.  Most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houstonvegetablegarden.com/index.php/2010/10/27/transplanting-fall-vegetables/</link>
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		<title>Fall Planting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first and second waves of fall plantings are complete.&#160; Beans were planted Labor Day weekend and are now about ready to produce.&#160; Lettuce, carrots, fennel, beets, turnips, Swiss chard. broccoli,bok choi and greens were planted the last week of September.&#160; The weather was mild and I got good stands.&#160; However, the hot weather of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houstonvegetablegarden.com/index.php/2010/10/21/fall-planting-2/</link>
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		<title>Fall Garden Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Only 110 heat index so better to be planning than doing.  The fall garden in Houston is basically a cool weather garden so one does not need to get started too early unless you want to plant corn or tomatoes.  I have had reasonable luck with corn, but poor results for fall tomatoes.  For both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houstonvegetablegarden.com/index.php/2010/08/17/houstonvegetablegardencom-%e2%80%ba-create-new-post-%e2%80%94-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>First Okra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally got a picking of okra in the Houston vegetable garden.&#160; I planted a combination of ZeeBest and Flower Bed, both locally produced seeds formerly available through Urban Harvest.&#160; Both produce nice okra on bush type plants.&#160; The seed were planted in April after the broccoli was finished.&#160; Germination was poor; probably because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houstonvegetablegarden.com/index.php/2010/07/26/first-okra/</link>
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		<title>Report on Earth Boxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in a previous post, my son bought several Earth Boxes for raising vegetables and herbs in Houston.&#160; His back yard has too much shade as well as 2 beagles.&#160; However he has a sunny driveway with areas not used by cars.&#160; He tried a number of vegetables and had good luck with most.&#160; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houstonvegetablegarden.com/index.php/2010/07/07/report-on-earth-boxes/</link>
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		<title>Peaches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I planted two peach trees about 10 years ago and never had a fruit until this year.&#160; One of the trees, a Mid Pride, set some fruit every year but the plum circulia ruined all of it.&#160; The other, a Red Baron, evidently never had enough chilling hours to produce.&#160; I planted a new Ujukitsu [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houstonvegetablegarden.com/index.php/2010/06/20/peaches/</link>
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		<title>Upside Down Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of innovative ideas have surfaced for space and sunlight deprived urban gardens.  The New York Times had an interesting article on raising tomatoes from a hanging basket, with the tomatoes growing from the bottom.  See:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/garden/20tomato.html?hpw A number of other ideas have also surfaced including Earth Boxes and similar self watering pots and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.houstonvegetablegarden.com/index.php/2010/05/22/upside-down-garden/</link>
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