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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune and the ringleader for the Home&Garden section. She is a decent vegetable gardener, but occasionally a tragic mess at growing other stuff. She’ll blog about gardening events, gadgets, her weird obsession with guerrilla gardening and all her assorted garden disasters. E-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com.

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 01:53:55 pm

I just got back from several days in the concrete jungle: New York City. I heart NY but it sure felt great to look down from the plane and see the green Pacific Northwest.

Of course, I didn't realize that the greenery I was gazing upon from the 757 had doubled in size while I was gone.

I know there were high temps here while I was gone. I didn't think they would have such an effect on my ornamental garden.

My Chilean fire tree is on fire like I've never seen it and this lupine...well, I didn't even know I had a pink lupine.

Everything else grew, sprouted and bloomed as if a crop duster loaded with fertilizer had hovered over my place for an hour.

There were, however, some downsides: Many of my veggies just up and disappeared including pumpkins and carrots. Time to resow.

Also, as my neighbors no doubt can attest, the weedlot that is my front yard is now waist high. Time to fire up the week whacker...

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