Timely Gardening Tips for where you live

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December/January 2001
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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Gift ideas from
your garden:

• Bundles of fragrant dried tea or culinary herbs
• Hot pepper pickles, sauces or jellies
• Sun-dried tomatoes or fruit
• Homemade preserves or jams
• Dried flower bouquets
• Collections of home-saved seeds
• Garlic braids
• Dried fruit mixes
• Homemade anything: Your friends will love it!

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Incorporating these grasses, native wildflowers and other drought-adapted perennial plants into your landscape will preserve scarce water resources and make yard work much easier. In the low desert, gardeners can start thinking about starting eggplants, peppers and tomatoes indoors. Hot pepper fans may want to try the orange manzano or rocoto pepper from South America - a new variety especially adapted to the region. It's an ornamental plant with dark green, fuzzy leaves, blue flowers and orange, thick-fleshed, juicy-hot, apple-shaped fruit.

Our thanks to the following for their contributions to the Almanac: Roberta Bailey, FEDCO Seeds, Waterville, Maine; Cricket Rakita, Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Mineral, Virginia; Connie Dam-Byl, William Dam Seeds, Dundas, Ontario; Matt Barthel, Seed Savers Exchange, Decorah, Iowa; Bill McDorman, Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens, Halley, Idaho; Josh Kirschenbaum and Tom Johns, Territorial Seed Company, Cottage Grove, Oregon; Rose Marie Nichols McGee, Nichols Garden Nursery, Albany, Oregon; Craig and Sue Dremann, Redwood City Seed Co., Redwood City, California; Tracy K. Lee, Park Seed Company, Greenwood, South Carolina.

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