<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414505450356893387</id><updated>2026-04-13T12:55:27.417-07:00</updated><category term="Cucumbers"/><category term="Carosello"/><category term="Cucumber"/><category term="Tomatoes"/><category term="Melons"/><category term="Tucson"/><category term="Garden Plots"/><category term="Insects"/><category term="Sweet Potato"/><category term="Plant Breeding"/><category term="Saving Seeds"/><category term="Beans"/><category term="Seed Suppliers"/><category term="Squash"/><category term="Cucumis melo"/><category term="Carrots"/><category term="Disease"/><category term="Greenhouse"/><category term="Specialty Cucumber"/><category term="Seeds"/><category term="Compost"/><category term="Books"/><category term="Fairfield"/><category term="Garden Visits"/><category term="Lettuce"/><category term="Cucumber Shop"/><category term="CucumberShop"/><category term="Cover Crops"/><category term="Flowers"/><category term="Armenian Cucumber"/><category term="Parthenocarpic"/><category term="Peas"/><category term="Pests"/><category term="Spinach"/><category term="Fava"/><category term="Kale"/><category term="Onion"/><category term="Beets"/><category term="California"/><category term="Green Manure"/><category term="Peppers"/><category term="Planning"/><category term="Winter Garden"/><category term="At the Market"/><category term="Cucumis anguria"/><category term="Experiments"/><category term="Microbes"/><category term="Mustard Greens"/><category term="Radishes"/><category term="Snake Melons"/><category term="Transplants"/><category term="Videos"/><category term="Artichoke"/><category term="Bananas"/><category term="Containers"/><category term="Italy"/><category term="Meloncella"/><category term="Seedlings"/><category term="Soil blocks"/><category term="Summer"/><category term="rare"/><category term="Cucamelon"/><category term="Fun"/><category term="Potatoes"/><category term="Selection"/><category term="Spiders"/><category term="Tar Kakdi"/><category term="business"/><category term="Beit Alpha"/><category term="Biofumigation"/><category term="Blogs"/><category term="Chard"/><category term="Chickens"/><category term="Corn"/><category term="Dry Farming"/><category term="Family"/><category term="Garlic"/><category term="Gherkins"/><category term="Giuseppe"/><category term="Harvests"/><category term="Leeks"/><category term="Lemon Grass"/><category term="Onions"/><category term="Pickling"/><category term="Planting Guides"/><category term="Pumpkins"/><category term="Reptiles"/><category term="Russian"/><category term="Sunflowers"/><category term="Tortarello"/><category term="Water"/><category term="conomon"/><category term="Arizona"/><category term="Bacteria"/><category term="Cabbage"/><category term="Cats"/><category term="Children"/><category term="Collaboration"/><category term="Community Gardens"/><category term="Growers"/><category term="Herbicides"/><category term="Hydroponics"/><category term="Killing Plants"/><category term="Master Gardeners"/><category term="Mint"/><category term="Perennials"/><category term="Podcasts"/><category term="Soil health"/><category term="Tools"/><category term="Zucchini"/><category term="biofungicide"/><category term="bugs"/><category term="fertilizer"/><category term="slugs"/><category term="wildlife"/><title type="text">The Scientific Gardener</title><subtitle type="html">A Fairfield, CA Gardener applies research to organic gardening. 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I'll probably talk more about this later, but for now, here is why every gardener should consider how pillbugs may be destroying their seedlings.  </summary><link href="http://scientificgardener.blogspot.com/feeds/764382535988305338/comments/default" rel="replies" title="Post Comments" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://scientificgardener.blogspot.com/2025/10/pillbug-decimation.html#comment-form" rel="replies" title="0 Comments" type="text/html"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1414505450356893387/posts/default/764382535988305338" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1414505450356893387/posts/default/764382535988305338" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="http://scientificgardener.blogspot.com/2025/10/pillbug-decimation.html" rel="alternate" title="Pillbug Decimation" type="text/html"/><author><name>Jay</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12461600014446853297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image height="32" rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" src="//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhagdIayeA-cwogv9iF1cliIcCIR2C2VIL_5yIFz6-atbUiGwBxHKnbFlY35EaePKiTOavlMUm8YZzE_zPrlSMu9bI6XSHkA2Wt4Iq2PxW3j7BlM_nlEhaOjVsK07-X_A/s113/Jay_2014_Pic.bmp" width="26"/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaJB9v-USXJpCaFMotMx4Pi4mT09fddt43PQTQc7PMXjQK1ZWnvn7BA0DRkFW9EbzsHBforDx72qL4r0hUMwUhQ76trG8Cabj3Nx8AIynyFiRaqQUnZQBmNuFcFXZhDYxBRe1TwAeFsHMD1Fvei4dxVpa_Sid0r410Fb51q2TzZBcPWCEnxSYjfsW9D6hd/s72-w400-h300-c/495240155_1232236241646750_853776517525116754_n.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1414505450356893387.post-6584732787089674850</id><published>2025-10-17T00:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2025-10-17T00:00:00.112-07:00</updated><title type="text">Unique 404 Error Code</title><summary type="text">With my new blogger format, I’ll start off with a completely wonky image that I found many years ago. 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