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		<title>Seville Orange Marmalade &#8211; Seasonal Treats Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2010/03/seville-orange-marmalade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marmalade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ started making Seville orange marmalade seven years ago when my favorite food writer, Lucy Waverman, who has a Saturday column in Toronto&#8217;s Globe and Mail, wrote a column about marmalade-making.
It was my husband John, whose English background includes marmalade connoisseurship, who showed me that all marmalade is not created equally. When we got married, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It looks like the winter drought is over</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2010/02/winter-drought-is-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November we had no snow, in December there was hardly any snow. January brought a tiny bit of snow, and for most of February there was no snow.
But that all changed this week, and just when I had almost given up on winter, or at least the prospect of having a winter storm. Yesterday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say it ain&#8217;t so: Coffee more toxic than 2,4 D?</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2010/02/coffee-more-toxic-than-24-d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Controversies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caffeine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lawn weedkiller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toxicity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=1286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love coffee, and I look forward to the one or two cups I enjoy each day with anticipation and pleasure. So what does coffee have to do with the common lawn weedkiller 2,4 D?
Well, recently, Jeff Gillman, a professor of horticulture at the University of Minnesota and the author of The Truth about Garden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After a weatherless month: we get snow</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2010/02/after-a-weatherless-month-we-get-snow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2010/02/after-a-weatherless-month-we-get-snow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=1273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ust when I thought that winter was (for the first time ever) going to leave us without a snowstorm in January and February, the weather turns.
We are getting a snowstorm and there&#8217;s a chance of freezing rain tonight. This might be the beginning of the end of our winter drought. There is snow in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s this? A snow day &#8211; sort of?</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2010/02/snow-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2010/02/snow-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=1248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe this winter. We&#8217;re coming up on mid-February, and we have not had a real snowstorm yetI love snowstorms, and I miss having snow on the ground, and snowshoeing. Yesterday we got some snowy leftovers, courtesy of a real storm south of the border. Here though, I wouldn&#8217;t say it was more than [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not too late to make New Year&#8217;s resolutions</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2010/01/new-years-resolutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2010/01/new-years-resolutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My resolutions aren&#8217;t strictly about gardening, but they have a lot to do with my computer and what I do on the web.
Over the fall, I developed a very bad case of repetitive stress injury (RSI) from my computer work. I was (still am) in the process of converting my 200-plus page website to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy winter solstice</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2009/12/winter-solstice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2009/12/winter-solstice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[t&#8217;s winter solstice again, which brings the shortest day &#8211; and the longest night &#8211; of the year. The good news: after this, the days will start to get longer. And slowly we will get our light back. No snow here yet &#8211; maybe towards the end of the week, but it looks like a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Looking back: the 2009 garden season</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2009/12/wrapup-2009-garden-season/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2009/12/wrapup-2009-garden-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 growing season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[precipitation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=1198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we speed toward the winter solstice next week, it&#8217;s high time for a state of the season update. We have been spared winter’s excesses so far, but, hey, winter doesn’t officially begin until Monday. October was chilly and November was mild, with no snow here at all.
Environment Canada reported that we had temperatures above [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Chopping leaves beats raking them up</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2009/11/chopping-leaves-beats-raking-them-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2009/11/chopping-leaves-beats-raking-them-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country garden maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dandelions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall leaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mowing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=1176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[hen you have as many trees as we do, raking leaves is simply out of the question.
While some country folks just let the wind blow the leaves away, I find that they don’t all blow away, especially if they get wet. 
So to clear them up, I take my mower over the piles of leaves [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The urban myth that won’t go away: 80% of Canadians live in cities</title>
		<link>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2009/11/urban-myth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/2009/11/urban-myth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne Cunnington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Country living]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.countrygardenerblog.com/?p=1160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Toronto Globe and Mail columnist Roy MacGregor says the media, including his paper, are guilty of spreading the myth that 80% of Canadians live in cities: 
&#8220;StatsCan, which for reasons even many of its employees puzzle over, considers an &#8216;urban&#8217; centre a defined area with 1,000 or more population. That has the effect of deeming [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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