I want to thank you all for giving me such sound advice about starting my little garden. You all obviously know a great deal about gardening - far more than I do. What I would give to walk around your vegetable patch, selecting things for a fresh summer salad! Without further ado, the winner of Marjorie Hariss' Ecological Gardening is Sharon. I just loved her response. She said "The time to get started on a new garden is NOW. In fact it could have been two months ago.Even if your available space is covered in mud or gray snow, its never too early to start imagining the taste of luscious tomatoes or other vegetables, perhaps even exotic varieties, or gorgeous showcase flowers grown through your own diligence and elbow grease. Head down to your library or book store to consult the best Canadian magazines and books on the topic. Decide on the type of garden you want: small space, container, intense, ‘lasagna’ gardening using old newspapers or is it to be a ‘forty acres and independence’ type of garden?? Research, consult other gardeners,the gardening store and then decide what work needs to be done to make it happen (and who can help you with it!) Envision the spectacular results, enjoy the preparatory work but the absolute first step is to DREAM (in technicolour) of your own garden. Good luck."
Congratulations Sharon, I hope you enjoy your book. It looks so good and has lots of useful information. Please leave a message to tell us all what you think of it.
You have all provided me with so much inspiration. And like Sharon says, I better get started NOW! I dream of tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, spinach ... I could go on forever.
I have more great news for my Green Living Blog subscribers. I have more amazing stuff to give away. I'm just so excited about spring and Earth Day that I thought this is a fun way to celebrate.
I have a great T-Fal cookware prize. Next Friday, I'll be announcing the winner of a:
Get cooking!
• 26 cm T-Fal professional fry pan; and
• 32 cm T-Fal professional fry pan
We here at CanadianLiving.com are big fans of T-Fal as their cookware products are PFOA free (PFOA is perfluorooctanoic acid, a synthetic chemical), lead free, cadmium free and recyclable. Music to our ears!
We also love to cook, so this is the perfect prize.
All you have to do is subscribe to receive the Green Living Blog to your e-mail inbox and leave a message here telling us how you stay "green" in the kitchen. You're answer can range from cooking to cleaning to what sort of cookware you use - whatever. Just let us know how you 've gone eco-friendly in the kitchen.
I look forward to reading all your answers - they're always so so good and it's super hard to pick a winner.
Keep checking back next week as I still have loads of eco-themed books to give away. How exciting!
