Wednesday, March 21, 2018

giveaway


It's been a while since I've done a giveaway here on Comptonia, but something came in the mail today that seems like a perfect Thing To Share.




I've mentioned the Sow True Seed company before. I like this company a lot, both their mission and their catalog, and I'm grateful to Tipper from The Blind Pig and The Acorn blog for sending me their way. Sow True Seed is a big part of the annual adventure in sweat and emotion I call "gardening."

This year, in response to a rather challenging winter which is ongoing, I have already ordered my seeds, including lettuce and candy roaster squash and little short-season melons.

These squash seeds are not actually part of my order, but I have a couple of packets to share. If you think you would like to win a packet of either variety, just leave a comment on this blogpost. Any comment will do, but if you include a gardening tip it will count as a second entry - we all need all the gardening tips we can get, don't we?

Please feel free to share this in any way and with anyone you think might be interested. I don't mind folks just dropping in to Comptonia to enter a giveaway. I'll draw two winners at midnight on March 30th and post the names on March 31st.

Seeds! Just a little something to help turn the page on the month of March.

And...ahem, coughcough...not to make a fuss about it but... you happen to know the person who painted the watercolors for the seed packets.
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19 comments:

  1. the packets are lovely, my best tip is to plant when the garden is in shadow, so neither the gardener nor seedlings get fried

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  2. I wish I had gardening tips. I have a black thumb, but I'm determined to try again this year. I guess my tip is ... keep trying!

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    1. Attitude is a critical component of gardening, isn't it? I'm counting this as a tip :)

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  3. Love your artwork! Hope to actually have a garden this year. Guess my tip would be to start early with a weed control plan.

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  4. Please don't enter my name in your giveaway (no garden here, alas), but wanted to say how much I love your paintings on the seed packets.

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  5. I am super impressed - your paintings are glorious! I'm one of those people who buys Cook's Illustrated issues for the back covers, so I think these are beautiful. Hm, tips....Well, as far as squash go, try not to crowd your plants OR plant too few of them, as aphid infestations are much more likely with either of those options.

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    1. Interesting tip, thanks! My candy roasters become a thigh-high sea of leaves until they reach the fence, when they become a glorious 6-foot wall of vegetation. Maybe they are creating their own perfect spacing?

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  6. What talent! Quinn, this is so cool to know the person who does the artwork. I'd love to try these seeds so enter me in your drawing. Let's see, a garden tip...if you live in an area with a long enough growing season, plant cucumbers after you pull out your green peas. The peas fix nitrogen in the soil for the cukes, and you can train the vines on the same trellis you use for your peas.

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  7. Lovely watercolors...which I adore. Very Nicely Done, Quinn! I purchased three 4x4' raised beds and am planning a smallish garden and an orchard. I'm ordering from Isons in GA and heritage apples from Tom Brown in NC. He's a wonderful man; look at his website www.applesearch.org and has the MOST wonderful apples. I especially want Grimes Golden, Summer Rambo and Wolf River. Grimes Golden is a pollinator so it does two jobs. SouthernExposure.com, down the road a piece, is a co-op and has lovely heirlom organic seeds.
    A gardening tip...tomatoes will grow and prosper even if laid in a shallow trench with their little heads propped up with a stone. The first year I lived at the last farm, it was desperately hard ground, drought, so I scraped out a shallow trench, laid the tomato plants to bed, covered them with dirt and a bit of manure then propped their little heads up with a stone and carried many 5 gallon buckets of water to drench the plants. Then I said, "God says for you to grow so get to it!" Dave laughed but, later that summer, I was the only person who had bushels of tomatoes. Blight struck the neighbor's but my little bit of garden prospered.
    As Tara says, "Garden and be well."

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    1. I bet that's a really good way to plant tomatoes that have gotten very leggy waiting to be put in the garden! Thanks for that tip :)

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  8. as the others said..i love the packets artwork..but want to try container planting of a few vegetables...in a wheelchair its hard to garden...id love to be in the giveaway..i love all the hints and gardening advice..its so wonderful to share our knowledge with people.

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    1. Hi Lynn - thank you for your comment! I'm sorry this drawing took place on 31 March, but two more packets of these seeds will be given away on The Blind Pig and The Acorn blog soon...I will mention it in a post when Tipper does the giveaway so you can enter there! And I hear you about the challenge of gardening with physical restrictions...if I was a wealthy person I would have ALL waist-high beds. As it is, I'm hoping to build ONE this year.

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    2. Whoops! I just discovered Tipper is giving away the seeds on her blog today! Get right over there and leave a comment to be entered in the drawing - good luck :)

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