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	<description>We like to grow heirloom tomatoes, heirloom peppers, strawberries, mushrooms, herbs and honey.  We love to experiment and try new things</description>
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		<title>Our Open Air Suspension Greenhouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some images of our Open Air Suspension Greenhouse being assembled in September 2011 for growing Basil in an EzGro Vertical Garden. We have been doing a lot of work on it. The sides are up now and it is fenced in. Next we need to do the front and back and start getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.midsummernightmeadows.com/greenhouse-technology/our-open-air-suspension-greenhouse/</link>
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		<title>The Basil Plant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Basil (Ocimum basilicum) is a member of the mint family. There are several types of basil. The most common culinary type is sweet basil. Specialty types include Thai, purple, lemon and small-leaved bush types. Basil seed is not always true to type. Try to obtain high quality seed that is uniform with a high germination [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.midsummernightmeadows.com/herbs/the-basil-plant/</link>
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		<title>Growing Colorful Bell Peppers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that all baby peppers start out green, then change color as they mature? In fact, when you’re growing bell peppers, some stay green until they mature to yellow or red, while others may turn white, lilac or purple before maturing to red, yellow or orange. You can eat peppers at whatever stage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.midsummernightmeadows.com/heirlooms/bell-peppers/growing-colorful-bell-peppers/</link>
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		<title>Our Local Honey is Ready</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring 2011 Honey is Here! Our bees have been very generous and the wildflower honey is bottled and available. It is Bastrop county Honey, our hives are in Red Rock.  So contact us to get your honey.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.midsummernightmeadows.com/honey/our-local-honey-is-ready/</link>
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		<title>The Strawberry Plant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strawberry growth will start from the crown. Strawberry crowns are perennial (live year after year) but their roots are annual. Each year the strawberry plant sends out new roots from the crown. This means that after a few years the roots get higher and higher up on the crown. This is why older plants need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.midsummernightmeadows.com/strawberrys/the-strawberry-plant/</link>
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		<title>What is Aluminet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aluminet can be used to protect crops such as ornamentals, flowers, foliage, fern, tree, and vegetable seedlings. An excellent cloth for crops that are highly susceptible to heat stall during warm weather. Aluminet is a special knitted screen made from metallized HDPE (High Density Polyethylene). The fibers are produced from mono-oriented HDPE giving the fiber [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.midsummernightmeadows.com/greenhouse-technology/what-is-aluminet/</link>
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		<title>The Benefits of Aluminet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The benefits of Aluminet are multiple. ALUMINET (an aluminized shade cloth) is more expensive than black shade cloth. What are the benefits of this shade cloth, and do the benefits justify the increase in price? ALUMINET reduces heat load in the greenhouse. Because of the highly reflective nature of Aluminet, radiation is reflected away from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.midsummernightmeadows.com/greenhouse-technology/the-benefits-of-aluminet/</link>
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		<title>How to Assemble a Suspension Type Open Air Greenhouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pole layout: Use poles of 10.49 ft, planted to a minimum depth of 23.62 inches. Plant two rows of poles 164.04 ft apart. Each row consists of 18 poles at center-to-center intervals of 9.84 ft. Prepare 19.68 x 19.68 ft poles by fitting 0.47 inches drawbolts through drilled holes at what will be 16.40 ft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.midsummernightmeadows.com/greenhouse-technology/how-to-assemble-a-suspension-type-open-air-greenhouse/</link>
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		<title>Rotate Your Crop Families: The Nine Main Groups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can simplify your rotations by sorting your crops into these major plant families: Onion family: onions, garlic, leeks and shallots Carrot family: carrots, celery, parsley and parsnips Sunflower family: lettuce, sunflowers and a few other leafy greens Cabbage family: cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale and many other leafy greens, as well as rutabagas and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.midsummernightmeadows.com/growing-organic/rotate-your-crop-families-the-nine-main-groups/</link>
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		<title>Perlite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perlite is an amorphous volcanic glass that has a relatively high water content, typically formed by the hydration of obsidian. It occurs naturally and has the unusual property of greatly expanding when heated sufficiently. It is an industrial mineral and a commercial product useful for its light weight after processing. When it reaches temperatures of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.midsummernightmeadows.com/growing-organic/perlite/</link>
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