<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Cracked Window &#187; Gardening</title>
	<atom:link href="http://michaelbales.com/category/gardening/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://michaelbales.com</link>
	<description>what passes as light</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:05:55 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Abuzz About Backyard Bees</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/abuzz-about-backyard-bees/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/abuzz-about-backyard-bees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Alexander Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honeybees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top-bar hives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will Dart]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=4052</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That stranger the sun came out briefly today, and hundreds of honeybees from our backyard hive streamed out to greet a world festooned with spring blossoms. They seemed to take as much delight as I do when the clouds break and the temperature rises. Of course for them this weather change is like a factory [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://michaelbales.com/abuzz-about-backyard-bees/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>No One Chooses</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/no-one-chooses/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/no-one-chooses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Bales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lake Sybelia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoria lily]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=3796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly a decade ago, a sudden medical problem made me afraid I was going to die on the spot. What had I done to deserve the infamy of croaking in Costco? ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://michaelbales.com/no-one-chooses/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Attack of the Aphids</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/attack-of-the-aphids/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/attack-of-the-aphids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aphids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broccoli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ladybugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegetable gardening]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=3158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For two weeks the broccoli heads stood like princes of the garden, waiting for a kitchen coronation. The wait was too long. Hordes of aphids stormed the cedar-plank box from which the broccoli grew and blanketed anything green. The heads looked cloaked in a lumpy white soot. Ruined. The only consolation to a lost crop [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://michaelbales.com/attack-of-the-aphids/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Dueling Gardens</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/dueling-gardens/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/dueling-gardens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegetable gardening]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=3054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m afflicted with vegetable garden envy. Sure, we have many things growing and gracing the dinner table. Way too much lettuce in fact. But our urban bounty has come to harvest slowly because no part of the yard has day-long sun. And there&#8217;s one raised bed in which everything seems frozen in time despite the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://michaelbales.com/dueling-gardens/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Moved and Alive</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/moved-and-alive/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/moved-and-alive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[japanese laceleaf maple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Street View]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=2735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In February on a rare sunny day, I helped friends dig up and move a Japanese laceleaf maple from their backyard to their front. No chance the tree was going to survive the unavoidable mugging at our hands. Now comes word of how wrong I was. Tiny leaves are born.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://michaelbales.com/moved-and-alive/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Tree Project Karma</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/tree-project-karma/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/tree-project-karma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese maple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sabin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=2003</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe aches and pains from transplanting a tree explain why I keep thinking about the Japanese maple. But the real reason, I&#8217;m afraid, is irrational emotional attachment for something not even in my yard. The tree belongs to friends in Portland&#8217;s Sabin neighborhood. I spent several hours Saturday helping them extricate it from a tight [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://michaelbales.com/tree-project-karma/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Indomitable Will of Plants</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/indomitable-will-of-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/indomitable-will-of-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perennials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even with the onslaught of winter, some flowers refuse to yield to nature. They won&#8217;t give in despite the overwhelming forces aligned against them. Yes, I&#8217;m granting powers to plants &#8212; thinking, free will, emotions &#8212; that to our knowledge don&#8217;t exist. Nevertheless, I admire their determination whether it&#8217;s real or not. I&#8217;ll gladly accept [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://michaelbales.com/indomitable-will-of-plants/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Man vs. Squirrel</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/man-vs-squirrel/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/man-vs-squirrel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[squirrels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sunflowers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A squirrel is mocking me. We had a peace pact for a few years. But the critter has had an attitude ever since I removed its nest from the eaves above the front porch. Or maybe it&#8217;s because I inadvertently dig up nuts the squirrel has socked away around the yard. In a benevolent gesture [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://michaelbales.com/man-vs-squirrel/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Gardening Van Gogh</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/gardening-van-gogh/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/gardening-van-gogh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dahlias]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have this thing for gardening. Just me and plants and dirt. Creative yet mindless. Mixing and matching. Trial and error. Nobody telling me how to do it. My three-year-old son draws better than me, but the yard is a canvas on which I can paint something of merit. I say &#8220;I&#8221; as if it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://michaelbales.com/gardening-van-gogh/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Pot Room Confinement</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/pot-room-confinement/</link>
		<comments>http://michaelbales.com/pot-room-confinement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pot growing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelbales.com/?p=1087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every spring I start filling up the front porch with potted plants. The porch extends the width of our 1920s Craftsman house, so there are long wide ledges begging for greenery. The back deck next to the small goldfish pond gets a few plants too. I gravitate toward the tropical and cold-sensitive, mostly begonias because [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://michaelbales.com/pot-room-confinement/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

