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	<title>Cherish Our Earth</title>
	<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk</link>
	<description>My weblog of what I grow and how I grow it</description>
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		<title>My Citrus Trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have many different varieties of Citrus trees growing in my greenhouse including Tropical Mandarin Orange Citrus Tree’s, Tropical Lime Citrus Tree’s, Tropical Lemon Cheena, Tropical Calamansi Calamondin Philippine Lime and Tropical Lime Lemon Cocoracha.
They are all around 18 months old and for their first winter they were in a greenhouse that never dropped below [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk/2009/08/my-citrus-trees/</link>
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		<title>My Hydrangea&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Around April 2008 I bought from eBay 20 Hydrangea King George and 20 Hydrangea Lanarth plug plants, the plants were very small (2 inches) but looked very healthy, they were also very well rooted. My plan for the Hydrangea&#8217;s is to have 8 really nice healthy bushes, from this I will take many cuttings. Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk/2009/08/my-hydrangeas/</link>
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		<title>How To Germinate Monkey Puzzle Seeds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monkey Puzzle Seed Germination.
I have germinated 100&#8217;s of Monkey Puzzle seeds and have a very high success rate, the reason being is I buy fresh seeds and use a tried and tested method, here are some hints and tips and details about the method I use to germinate my Monkey Puzzle Seeds.
SeedsWhen buying seeds there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk/2008/08/how-to-germinate-monkey-puzzle-seeds/</link>
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		<title>My TAI8515 1-Wire Weather Station</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to monitor the temperature, humidity and light levels inside my greenhouse, in the future I plan to automate the opening and closing of my doors based on the inside temperature but for now I just want to monitor the situation.
I soon realised that the easist was of doing this was with a TAI8515 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk/2008/07/my-tai8515-1-wire-weather-station/</link>
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		<title>My Heated Propagator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much to the delight of my better half, I have a small heated propogator on the kitchen windowsill. I have different seeds in here at different times, at the moment it is full of Cactus seeds. I am currently propogating the following seeds: -
Ferocacus
Carnegia Gigantea Saguaro
Cereus
Oreocereus
Coryphantha
Melocactus
Rebutia
Haageocereus
Here is a picture with the lid on: -

and here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk/2008/06/my-heated-propagator/</link>
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		<title>In the Growbox &#8211; Cactus Germination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I finaly got round to taking some pics of inside my cactus germination growbox today. I&#8217;m not very good with the camera so forgive the quality of the images. My dad is going to come round soon and photograph everything in detail so until that happens you will have to put up with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk/2008/06/in-the-growbox-cactus-germination/</link>
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		<title>My New Growbox &#8211; Cactus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having recently bought 1000&#8217;s of Cactus seeds on eBay I realised that I needed somewhere to germinate them. Having researched the topic of Cacti germination on the internet I knew that I had to build a germination box.
The box is 4ft x 2ft x 2ft and has around 2 inches of heated sand on which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk/2008/06/my-new-growbox-cactus/</link>
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		<title>How to Grow an Olive Tree in a Container</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Olive trees add Mediterranean flair to any abode. You don&#8217;t need to live in Southern Europe or California to enjoy the leathery, gray-green leaves of an olive tree. Neither do you need to own a garden for olive trees can be grown on balconies or indoors quite easily.
Most nurseries offer potted olive trees for sale. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk/2008/06/how-to-grow-an-olive-tree-in-a-container/</link>
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		<title>My Fig Tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is one of my favorite trees, A Fig Tree. This one is around 5 years old and has been kept in a pot in my greenhouse since it was very young. I would love to see how this would develop if it had the opportunity to spread it&#8217;s roots in the ground. I may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk/2008/06/my-fig-tree/</link>
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		<title>Monkey Puzzle Seedlings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last September I bought around 150 Monkey Puzzle seeds. These were pretty easy to germinate, all I did was:-
1 &#8211; soak them in water for 24 hours
2 &#8211; Planted them about 1 cm deep in John Innes number 2 soil in 7 cm pots
3 &#8211; watered them occasionally
Around 140 of them have germinated and are growing very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cherishourearth.co.uk/2008/06/monkey-puzzle-seedlings/</link>
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