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Posted by Sunset, May 9, 2009 in Edibles , People , Pets , Sustainable gardening , Techniques

By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer

Let's start with this photo and sweet caption from Tall Clover Farm.

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2 bulldogs and tu-lips: Boz & Gracie channel their inner Vermeer

There's reason for some cautious optimism regarding the health of bees, I found out from Valerie Easton's blog Plant Talk.  Now if we can just turn the economy around.

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Gutter_gardensAnd you can grow lettuces in rain gutters.  Who knew?

I picked this up from Cindy McNatt's Dirt Dujour blog, and she picked it up from Fern's Life on the Balcony, and Fern found it on Juneau Empire

Good ideas get around.

More tricks for small veggie gardens

Comments

Thanks for the kind words and sharing the photo of Boz and Gracie in artful repose. Though, I fear once they get wind of their mugs being front and center on your fine blog, that their day rates for modeling will soar. cheers, tom

Posted by:tom | tall clover farm | July 08, 2009 at 10:57 AM
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