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The Sacramento Bee hosts a network of high-quality news providers and bloggers in the Sacramento region. Here is a sampling of the best of the current Home & Garden blogs. Check out the full postings: sacramentoconnect.com.

• MEMORIAL DAY REMEMBRANCE- Historic City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway, Sacramento Amid the cemetery's gardens, remember veterans with patriotic readings, music, speakers and a tour of grave-sites.

The hardest part of straw bale gardening may be finding the straw. Author and straw bale gardener Joel Karsten picks a tomato from one of his bales. The green T-post at front left is connected to another, a few bales away, via wires to which growing, rising vegetable plants can be tied and steadied. A family pet shares space with straw bales placed right atop a concrete slab of a former parking space.