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We're Digging It

  • How to get children interested in gardening
    Rosa Salter Rodriguez has a great story in today's Journal Gazette about getting little ones involved -- and hooked -- on gardening.
  • Small-fruit seminar offered
    Ricky Kemery, Purdue Horticulture Extension educator for Allen County and a Journal Gazette garden columnist, is offering a seminar on growing small fruit.The session is 10 a.m.
  • Might have pears this summer
    My pear trees are blossoming for the first time since I planted them two years ago. I found two small trees that were sort of flat to begin with and have been training and pruning them grow espalier on the backside of my home.
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Nathan Kistler

In your veggie garden: 2

Jaclyn L. Kistler
Nathan Kistler

Nathan Kistler, 9, is holding the largest zucchini we have ever grown in our small garden. He later played the zucchini like a guitar. It is now in the freezer so that we can make zucchini bread all winter.

Our Aboite Township garden gets full sun and water every day.

What's in your garden?

Pick your favorite produce and pose with it. Send your favorite shot to garden@jg.net and put "Veggies" in the subject line. Photos should be in jpeg format.

Please include your name, the name of the posing person or pet, type of produce, where you live, a phone number and a brief description of what you do to make that tomato all plump and delicious.

Photos will be posted on The Journal Gazette's gardening blog, "We're Digging It."

Journey through gardening season with Rosa Salter Rodriguez (feature writer) rsalter@jg.net, Anne Gregory (Web editor and writer) agregory@jg.net, Frank Noonan (copy editor) fnoonan@jg.net and Cathie Rowand (photographer) crowand@jg.net.

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