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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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A Gardening Blog
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 06:01:02 am

If you're like me, this record-setting rain we're having is upsetting my seasonal clock. I feel confused, like what our ancestors must have felt like during a solar eclipse.

Thank goodness for zinnias.

Last year I sowed some zinnia seeds in my garden. That was the last I saw of them. I tried again this year. After poking their heads up they were eaten, broken, zapped by aliens...I don't know.

Knowing they would like the heat and I could keep a close eye on them I sowed some more in a pot at my back door.

Success! Finally, I have some zinnias. These are called California giants. They seem to like pots.

Now, if only my tomatoes would ripen.
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