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January 03, 2009 09:53 PM EST
(featured date: January 12, 2009)
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The snow may be falling, the temperatures dropping and the winds howling, but there's a solid tradition in town that keeps Twin Cities folks warm. The St. Agnes Baking Company, owned by . . .
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December 17, 2008 08:06 PM EST
(featured date: December 22, 2008)
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Second Monday in December, 2008
Last night brought four inches of straight-falling snow that draped lawns, pines, and off-streets in heavy fleece, and left a pudding of salt and slush on . . .
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November 09, 2008 09:18 AM EST
(featured date: November 14, 2008)
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The forecast for tomorrow is 19. Not bad at all for central Minnesota, as I remember about 3 feet of snow on Halloween in 1993. A bit of a late start this year.
Last year wasn't bad at all as far . . .
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October 16, 2008 06:55 PM EDT
(featured date: October 24, 2008)
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As part of his "Art As Treasure" tour that has visited half a dozen cities around the US, William Hessian has placed 35 miniature artworks, colorful images of octopi, around Minneapolis . . .
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October 11, 2008 10:40 PM EDT
(featured date: October 16, 2008)
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Common wisdom has it that Autumn is the time to bend our backs, gather and put by Summer's harvest, and prepare the family for the long dark nights, barren branches, and icy coffin of winter storms. . . .
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October 08, 2008 10:57 AM EDT
(featured date: October 13, 2008)
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When I was growing up in central Ohio, school began right after Labor Day. This was advantageous compared to today's August start, and not just because of the longer summer break. The extra time also . . .
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September 24, 2008 11:49 AM EDT
(featured date: September 24, 2008)
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Do you do any canning?
If you don't, would you like to? If you do, would you share recipes and tips? Do you have a garden chock-full of harvesty goodness just waiting to be preserved?
I've . . .
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September 13, 2008 05:59 PM EDT
(featured date: September 18, 2008)
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It's been pouring all afternoon, rain so heavy it drops vertical lines from heaven to earth. Ground level is saturated and steamy, and the roads hiss and plash from cars rolling home from the . . .
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August 31, 2008 10:29 PM EDT
(featured date: September 08, 2008)
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I just came in with a handful of cherry tomatoes, warm off the vine. My hand is still fragrant with the sharp musk of broken vine. Violet Butterfly Weeds wave a sultry hello in the hot . . .
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August 31, 2008 01:29 PM EDT
(featured date: September 05, 2008)
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Now I love sandwiches, but the classic Bacon Lettuce Tomato stack takes 1st place in my heart. Thanks to an embarassingly successful set of tomato plants this year, we've had BLTs at least every . . .
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August 23, 2008 11:51 AM EDT
(featured date: August 24, 2008)
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Hello group. This is my first post so I'm kind of just feeling my way around right now.
I decided to grow primarily heirloom tomotoes this year after a few years of . . .
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July 31, 2008 10:03 AM EDT
(featured date: August 11, 2008)
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Our tomatoes are promising, the basil is flowering (oops!), and the grapes are actually going to produce this year - at least the one grape plant that didn't have to recover from last winter. I promise, . . .
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July 07, 2008 06:44 PM EDT
(featured date: July 24, 2008)
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I was out walking around the yard today and noticed not only is one of my Hydrangeas blooming but two are. These bushes are about 3-4 years old and last year was the first year they flowered. Both were . . .
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July 09, 2008 09:15 AM EDT
(featured date: July 22, 2008)
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This is just another typical summer day. The kids are out and about and I have a few minutes to spare. I decide to take a walk and see what is blooming in my gardens today......
This is what I find.... . . .
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July 11, 2008 01:39 PM EDT
(featured date: July 14, 2008)
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I am still on my mission to use hundreds of homegrown cherry tomatoes. So, this week I made a batch of "sun dried" tomatoes or what we call "Mater-Chips."
We do this every . . .
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June 29, 2008 04:03 PM EDT
(featured date: July 02, 2008)
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My local Garden Club held it's annual garden walk last week. There were six gardens featured. All were different and beautiful in their own right. There was one in particular . . .
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June 30, 2008 09:13 AM EDT
(featured date: June 30, 2008)
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As you may already know, I'm on a mission to find way to use an over abundance of Cherry Tomatoes.
Someone switched the tags on the tomato plants at the nursery and we now have 2 cherry and one . . .
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June 07, 2008 09:20 PM EDT
(featured date: June 11, 2008)
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When we moved into our new house four years ago, I knew I would have lots of gardens to move. The owner had been elderly and the gardens were overgrown and out of control. Well each year I weeded and tried . . .
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June 05, 2008 12:54 PM EDT
(featured date: June 06, 2008)
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We planted late this year, but our tomatoes, basil, and some right-now-unnamed annuals are doing well. The birch tree is happy (but could be happier...the apple trees are bogarting some sun) and the grapes . . .
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May 24, 2008 05:56 PM EDT
(featured date: May 28, 2008)
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Today I went out and photographed some more wonderful, gorgeous flowers that were in bloom! I need help to ID these. I know my smart Gather friends will be able to help me out! You always . . .
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