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	<description>Gardening in the Rio Grande Valley</description>
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		<title>Alex&#8230;After Effects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Alex made landfall about 100 miles south of us, we didn&#8217;t escape unscathed, by any means. We got some wind and plenty of rain, but it poured on the Rio Grande and Falcon Lake watersheds. So now, we have this&#8230;




This is still well upstream to us, but it&#8217;s getting closer. They released some water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So Do Not Need This!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if I didn&#8217;t have enough to worry about, right? Now we&#8217;re gonna get hurricaned on. That can&#8217;t be good for gardens. Alex is gonna come along and kill the almost-ripe cantaloupes I have been babying along and salivating over for weeks. Mother Nature is a b*&#038;ch! No fair at all! 




Seriously, I have no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keep-It-Alive-Till-Harvest Mode</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had three weeks of temps in the mid-to-high nineties, with humidity to match, and heat advisories all the time. You can imagine what that does to a garden. I&#8217;m babying most things along until I can harvest whatever&#8217;s still surviving out there. Cukes and watermelon in the containers have just about had it. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted any pics in a while, so I guess it&#8217;s time for an update. Things are definitely going better than they did last year. We had a nice t-storm last night, and I think everything grew a foot overnight! More storms possibly tonight, too. Amazing what a little thunder, lightening, and rain can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Melting, Paul James, and One-Straw-Revolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yea, I&#8217;m going to whine about the weather again. We&#8217;ve been under a heat advisory all weekend. It&#8217;s been miserable. Except for going out early morning and in the evening to water, the garden is on it&#8217;s own. I ain&#8217;t even going out there if I can avoid it. I even changed my desktop to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you say kvas?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s been too long. I have been gardening &#8211; in the 90+ heat and humidity &#8211; which is why I haven&#8217;t been blogging. When I&#8217;m done for the day, all I want is a shower and a rest! Still house-hunting, too. We&#8217;ve seen some nice houses, just not &#8220;THE&#8221; house yet. 
Lots going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yesterday Veggies, Today Flowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And Gold Bond Powder. Yesterday I posted about critters eating my melon leaves and what to do about it. One gardener wrote that she puffed Gold Bond Medicated Powder (the cheap store brand) on her melon leaves, and the cucumber beetles (or whatever critter was chowing down) left her plants alone. Apparently they didn&#8217;t like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So The Veggies Are Growing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to update all week, but things have been blowing around too much. We&#8217;ve had 35-40 mph winds all week, with occasional gusts even higher. It&#8217;s hard to get decent pics in all that wind. The wind finally &#8220;calmed down&#8221; to 20-25 mph today, so took quick pics between gusts&#8230;
Pics and more 


Mouseover [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Ripe Tomato, Bean Flowers, and a UFO&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Woo hoo! I managed to save my first ripening tomato from marauding mockingbirds by the timely application of bird netting, and picked it yesterday. It&#8217;s not a real big tomato, but it&#8217;s the first this year, and it&#8217;s mine! 

Pics and more 

Mouseover the thumb to see the big picture.
Click for the really big pic.

The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blooming Blanketflowers, Growing Babies, and More Weird Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aside from the blooming blanketflowers, no earth-shaking developments today, unless you count the 4.0 earthquake in Alice, TX, the other day. From the Corpus Christi Caller-Times:
&#8220;ALICE, Texas (AP) &#8211; A small earthquake has rattled awake some residents in southeast Texas. A 4.0 magnitude earthquake hit an area near Alice, about 50 miles west of Corpus [...]]]></description>
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