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Garden game for PC or Mac grows on you
Alice Greenfingers is a game of dig, plant, water, wait, box, sell. The downloadable demo -- Windows or Mac -- gives you an hour to decide if it's worth $19.95. There's a full review at JayIsGames. Here's a snippet...
June 29, 2007 3:31 am
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Floral clock: The scarlet pimpernel closes at 2 p.m.
This seems another remnant of eras where people invented their own pastimes. The very idea of planting a garden whose flowers would tell the gardener -- and perhaps only the gardener knew the code -- that it was lunchtime or...
June 26, 2007 11:27 pm
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Walking tour of funky West End gardens Sunday
For all you gardeners and garden-lovers, there is a self-guided walking tour of West End gardens this Sunday from 11 to 1:30 p.m., sponsored by Urban Greens, which aims to provide affordable access to healthy, natural and sustainably produced foods...
June 26, 2007 1:06 am
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Updated: The garlic is 'scaping! (We made pesto)
Most supermarket garlic is softneck garlic, bred for keeping. This is Rocambole, mild hardneck "serpent" garlic that forms a bulb on the end of its curving flower stalk. But I don't want it to "flower" -- it will take...
June 24, 2007 9:28 am
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