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Online gardening resources

daisy A perennial favorite: Prairienet's Garden Gate. No ads, lots of links.
daisy You'll find a wonderful gardening resource deep in the heart of Texas.
daisy Olympia, Washington's GardenNet is worth a visit.
daisy The Organic Alliance provides a good organic growing starting point.
daisy An interesting organic grower's home page: Noah's Ark.
daisy"Cyndi's Catalog of Gardening Catalogs" is a one-stop catalog resource.
daisy Gardens Alive! is an excellent supplier of environmentally-responsible products.
daisy Rodale's Organic Gardening Site complements the print magazine.
daisy The National Gardening Association: many ads but good information, too.

 
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Recipes

greendot Visit the Recipe Archive, where you'll find recipes for just about everything.

greendot VegetarianRecipe.com for vegetarian recipes (as you might expect).

greendot Tomato recipes, a bushel of them, from Texas A&M.

greendot Tomato Pepper Salad:

All ingredients except Kraft Zesty Italian dressing are ideally fresh from the garden:

Three or four large tomatoes, peeled and cut into pieces.

One green bell pepper, washed and diced.

A handful of bunching onions, washed and sliced into small pieces.

Kraft Zesty Italian dressing - not a lot, maybe one half cup.

Mix ingredients in a bowl or plastic container, cover, refrigerate for at least 1/2 hour, and enjoy!
 
Serves two. Use more ingredients to serve more people.

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corn cam linkHeart of the Corn Belt

For transplanted Iowans, here are some links to the Hawkeye State.

greendot The Sioux City Journal for news about Northwest Iowa

greendot The Des Moines Register

greendot The Iowa State Extension site for crop and weather reports

greendot The University of Iowa 

greendotI love these sites: The Iowa Highways Page and Iowa Birds & Birding.

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Heirloom Seeds

If you're interested in heirloom seeds, here are two organizations to contact:

    Landis Valley Museum
    Heirloom Seed Project
    2451 Kissel Hill Road
    Lancaster, PA 17601

    Seed Savers Exchange
    3076 North Winn Road
    Decorah, IA 52101

You can order a variety of seeds from the Landis Valley catalog, for which there is a modest charge. Order seeds early (some sell-out quickly). Seed Savers charges an annual (modest) membership fee; seeds are exchanged among members.

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Favorites

    daisyKim English, webmistress, and her kitty cam

    daisyNational Historic Route 66 Photo Collection Gas Station along Route 66 in Texas

    daisy Jean's High Wire

    daisyLibrary of Congress' American Memory Collection

    Farm along U.S. 6, Iowa
    Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs
    Division, FSA-OWI Collection
    [LC-USF33-003501-M4 DLC]

    daisy Dorothy Surrenders

    daisy The New York Review of Books

    daisy Lifehacker

    daisy Psych News

    daisyThe Monterey Bay Aquarium's live webcams

    Monterey BayMonterey BayMonterey Bay

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"The poetry of earth is never dead..." 
On the Grasshopper and Cricket, John Keats

roses

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    Local Weather: Elkins Park, PA

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