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	<title>Rivenrock Gardens Cactus Blog... go to www.rivenrock.com for edible cactus &#187; Gardening</title>
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		<title>Morning Walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>hay time</title>
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 In most places hay is stored to be used through the winter to keep livestock alive.   But here winter brings us much green grass and plenty... but we are dry and most plant life is dead or dormant in the summertime. So local people take advantage of winter rains to grow grasses... we harvest them in the spring when they go dry, and then we can store them to feed them to livestock in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Lady Cactus wearing flowers in their hair</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   We're not in San Jose, but these old lady cactus wear flowers in their hair.  
I picked these little plants up at a plant sale in 1998.
   In that twelve years they have gotten to nearly six feet tall.

  They have bits of the oak tree blossoms in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tilling time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An abundance of humus is usually characterised by a dark soil, with excellent friability (workable, breaks apart easily, has air/water pore spaces). These same characteristics enable easy penetration by roots, and a flourishing soil micro-fauna/flora environment.... this is the true key to building soil. You need to get those little critters that are in the soil to high numbers.... they will secret enzymes that help plant growth, and further break down the natural soil particles, freeing the good minerals for the plant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persimmons, peppers and cactus</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Fresh foods are good... everything has its season... persimmons are best kept on the tree through frosts... then they have to get really gross and mushy... then they are the sweetest... but you're not likely to find them sold that-a-way... they won't last in transit while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerusalem Artichokes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dicus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Jerusalem Artichokes are actually a type of sunflower. They can survive and produce a little even in barren soils that a lot of other plants don't survive in at all.... for this reason they are considered a 'famine food' that may pull a people through hard times while they wait for their crops to grow back, or foreign armies to leave. [...]]]></description>
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