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Many tomatoes are grown hydroponically. Hydroponic tomatoes can taste as good as tomatoes grown in rich soil outdoors. The benefits of growing hydroponically include being able to control and extend fruit production, as well as being able to augment the supply of natural sugars and other components that plants use to produce especially tasty tomatoes.
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Nothing really beats a summer birthday, well, except celebrating everyone in the family who has a summer birthday all at the same time. Topped of with a beautiful Napa day in the garden, more than my share of strawberry margaritas, bbq turkey, coleslaw and grilled veggies. The following are a collection of pics of the day as it unfolded. I know I enjoyed it, and I think everyone else did too.
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Train rides are a lot of fun and I've been using a train to commute to Santa Clara lately and I am in love love love with the landscape on the ride down. There are some beautiful brown grass California hills on one side of the trip down, and lots of water of the San Francisco Bay to be seen on the other. Here are a few shots that I have taken from the train complete with great glare of the lights
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One saturday earlier this month, Lia and I went to Bolinas to see a garden new to us but hardly new. Over the years, Sally would fill out her garden but when most of us would concede to the limitations of our lot, she just annexed adjacent lots. Sally's is now a very large garden of about an acre. Sally is a well known water colorist whose garden is her subject matter.
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Here's a new way to help people understand your garden layout, with the help of google earth. The cover image shows my lot taken from above and facing North. The white roofs belong (from front to back) to the greenhouse, birdroom and the covered area that includes the garden bed and begonia wall. Just to the right of these you might be able to make out the green shadecloth over t
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