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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.

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A Gardening Blog
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Posted by Sue Kidd @ 11:10:32 am

Former TNT photographer Bruce Kellman, who retired earlier this year, tipped us off to a tour of private railway gardens, an event hosted by the Puget Sound Garden Railway Society.

The tour is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 16 and 17. The tour is a self-guided wander about of a dozen private railway gardens from Tacoma to Everett. Cost is $10 and a map and details can be found if you click right here.

In Pierce County, the homes of Dave Kiesig, in Orting, and Carol and Pete Comley, in Bonney Lake, will be open for garden train voyeurs.

According to Kellman, the "Kiesig layout has a fabulous look with many tracks and lots of buildings and miniature plants. The Comleys run miniature steam engines, some fueled by real coal."

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