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		<title>Spring 2013 Gardening Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m long overdue for an update on my gardening projects, which, unlike my posts on the subject, have not been on a year-long hiatus.  In my last updates back in 2011, I had been making attempts at turning our back yard into something more than a clear-cut suburban plot of crappy dirt and dead Bermuda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Garden: Irrigation &amp; Lima Beans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m going to try to make these posts more concise as I tend to be pretty wordy .&#160; Suffice it to say this time that the 4&#215;12’ vegetable garden I began tilling back in July is planted and the first plants have already risen from the ground!&#160; Here what I’ve done since the last update:
Finished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Garden: 1st Tilling, Grass/Weed Destruction Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teri and I both have some form of agriculture or home food production in our background.&#160; Her father owns farmland near Waco, my mom grew up on an Iowa farm, and my dad’s father maintained a substantial garden as a hobby.&#160; When I was younger, my family also operated a garden in our back yard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Garden: Irrigation Phase 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At about the time I had the trees, berries and grapes planted, I did a bunch of reading to figure out how much I should water everything.  I came up with the following document as a guide: Water Schedule.pdf.
Although very helpful, it got really old having to water all 4 plants separately using one soaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Garden: Berries &amp; Grapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After planting trees, we next added some berries and grapes.&#160; Teri’s favorite fruit are berries, including blackberries which generally grow well in Texas.&#160; A specific variety of blackberry is the dewberry, which she grew up eating in pies.&#160; And one of my favorite fruits is grapes.&#160; So that became step 2 of our backyard improvement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Garden: Introduction &amp; Tree Planting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my last post, my wife and I have plans for growing a good amount of food in our Austin, TX backyard.  One of the things that bothers me most about new suburban neighborhoods is the general lack of mature trees and the “barren wasteland” look of the backyards.  So one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aquaponics Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a year ago, while I was still a bachelor living in an apartment, I decided I wanted to have a small garden so I’d have fresh ingredients available for cooking, particularly herbs.  After considering a number of conventional ways of growing herbs in an apartment, I ended up reading about Aquaponics.  Fascinated, I built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apartment Aquaponics Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may have seen from other recent blog postings, I&#8217;ve recently been checking out epicurious.com.  I happened to check their blog a couple weeks ago when they had a brief posting about aquaponics. Aquaponics refers to the growing of plants in water (hydroponics), together with fish (aquaculture) in a closed system, where the fishes&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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