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Posted by admin to Apple, California, Crunch, Its, Kearneysville, Local, Lovers,, Maine, Maryland, Poland, Steve Miller, Tennessee, Time, U.S. Department of Agriculture, United Kingdom, Virginia, Washington, DC, West Virginia, for on 2007-11-21, 21:00:00

It was a good apple year in England, California and especially Maine, where a sunny spring favored bee activity. Poland's yield, on the other hand, was down because of cold spring weather. An Easter freeze also marred the harvest in much of the U.S. Southeast, especially Tennessee, where the crop was pitiful.

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Posted by admin to Apple, California, Crunch, Its, Kearneysville, Local, Lovers,, Maine, Maryland, Poland, Steve Miller, Tennessee, Time, U.S. Department of Agriculture, United Kingdom, Virginia, Washington, DC, West Virginia, for on 2007-11-21, 21:00:00

It was a good apple year in England, California and especially Maine, where a sunny spring favored bee activity. Poland's yield, on the other hand, was down because of cold spring weather. An Easter freeze also marred the harvest in much of the U.S. Southeast, especially Tennessee, where the crop was pitiful.

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Posted by admin to Dinner, Into, Its, Way, Worming on 2007-07-04, 20:00:00

Vermicelli, a type of thin Italian spaghetti, has managed to retain its popularity both in Italy and beyond despite its name, which translates as "little worms." The recent success of the rope-shaped strozzapreti has, if anything, been enhanced by the curious name "priest-stranglers." And trofie, my latest pasta favorite, won my heart despite a close resemblance to a common garden pest.

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Posted by admin to Better, Broccoli, Even, Its, but on 2006-10-18, 20:00:00

Something funny was going on in the broccoli patch. From 10 feet away it was business as usual: row upon row of beautiful, vase-shaped plants, their wide, blue-green leaves reveling in the cool, sunny fall weather. But on closer inspection, three rows were different. Instead of forming tight, firm mounds of tiny green buds -- the classic head of broccoli -- those plants were making more-open heads composed of little round, leafy balls. Both the central heads and the many side shoots showed the same pattern.

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Posted by admin to Freshness, Its, Loses, organic on 2006-06-21, 20:00:00

The term "organic" gardening has never been clear to everybody, and recent efforts to define it have only made things worse.