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	<title>Gardening by Mistake</title>
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	<description>My gardening misadventures in the Heartland.</description>
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		<title>Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like two of the four viola pedatifida that literally vanished overnight are trying to make a comeback. Yay! Four was a pretty pitiful showing as it was, and two is even more so, but I&#8217;m very happy to have them anyway. Now I&#8217;ll be able to see if they make it through the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heartlandgarden.artfulx.com/?p=1165</link>
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		<title>Late summer assessment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been spending a lot of time weeding the tall grass prairie that took over my garden. (That is, if a tall grass prairie was made of invasive, non-native grasses). I did a great job of staying on top of the weeds until about mid-July. Then we had unbelievable heat and humidity and I hid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heartlandgarden.artfulx.com/?p=1157</link>
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		<title>Lake Shawnee, part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m slow getting this last batch of pics up, but better late than never. It was so hot the day we were there that this guy couldn&#8217;t be bothered even when the flash went off in his face.]]></description>
		<link>http://heartlandgarden.artfulx.com/?p=1138</link>
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		<title>Bird Central</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After having left the feeders empty all summer, I put food out about 2 weeks ago. Although the birds have visited the feeders since then, today it seems the entire neighborhood has stopped by. In the past hour I&#8217;ve had a feisty Carolina wren, a house wren, a male house finch and two of his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heartlandgarden.artfulx.com/?p=1130</link>
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		<title>Worm tea or leachate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got to clear up something that drives me absolutely nuts. Many people refer to &#8220;worm tea&#8221; but they are actually talking about leachate. The two are not the same thing and are not interchangeable. So what&#8217;s the difference? Worm &#8220;tea&#8221; is better called &#8220;vermicompost tea&#8221; because we&#8217;re brewing the vermicompost and not the worms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heartlandgarden.artfulx.com/?p=1090</link>
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		<title>Worm Bin Harvesting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s so hot outside (heat index of 115) that I&#8217;m not even worrying about getting out there. Yes, knowing the weeds are there is driving me crazy, but not so crazy that I can&#8217;t wait until it&#8217;s not 100 degrees outside. In the meantime, I&#8217;m harvesting my worm bins.  This is a good time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heartlandgarden.artfulx.com/?p=1122</link>
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		<title>Lake Shawnee, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More pictures from our recent visit to Lake Shawnee.]]></description>
		<link>http://heartlandgarden.artfulx.com/?p=1100</link>
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		<title>Pureed food and the worm bin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The question is: is it okay to add pureed food to the worm bin? The answer is: yes, but&#8230; Pureeing the food before adding it to the worm bin is a double-edged sword. The benefit of doing this is that it helps the food decompose more quickly, becoming worm-ready more quickly. Pureeing the food opens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heartlandgarden.artfulx.com/?p=1095</link>
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		<title>Fruit Flies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am experiencing a fruit fly infestation. Don&#8217;t think, though, that this is something that will happen to everyone who has a worm bin. It happens to me when I get careless. It can be avoided. My son put a the remains of a banana into one bin and didn&#8217;t get all of it covered. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://heartlandgarden.artfulx.com/?p=1092</link>
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		<title>Gardens at Lake Shawnee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, our family spent some time at the gardens of Lake Shawnee in Topeka, Kansas. What a gem! As I understand it, these gardens were done entirely by volunteers. They did a fantastic job! Enjoy!]]></description>
		<link>http://heartlandgarden.artfulx.com/?p=1065</link>
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