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2012 Gift Guide: Fiskars 7936 PowerGear Pruner

Fiskars 7936 PowerGear Pruner As I have headed back into the garden recently, I remembered how much I like my Fiskars PowerGear Pruner. These have lasted for a long time with just a little sharpening every now and then. When I do the big rose pruning job at the end of each year, these are [...]

2012 Gift Guide: Garden Hod harvest carrier

Garden Hod harvest carrier A great little carrying basket for your harvest trips through your garden. Dirt falls right through and you can even hose off vegetables outside for a neater trip inside. Comes in a variety of sizes to match your garden needs. More 2012 Gift Guide Items: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield [...]

2012 Gift Guide: Wells Lamont Wet and Muddy Latex Coated Gardening Glove

Wells Lamont Wet and Muddy Latex Coated Gardening Glove It is always great to have a pair of these latex-coated gloves around for those wet tasks in the garden. I use them for mixing up potting soil, harvest compost and working in the garden after a recent rain. Sure, we all like to get our [...]

2012 Gift Guide: Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Susan Warren

Backyard Giants: The Passionate, Heartbreaking and Glorious Quest to Grow the Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Susan Warren There are some that say gardening contains all the drama of human life — happiness and sadness, triumph and defeat, jealousy, hatred, life and death. Of course, there are some elements of gardening that contain all this and [...]

2012 Gift Guide: Fields of Plenty: A farmer’s journey in search of real food and the people who grow it

Fields of Plenty: A farmer’s journey in search of real food and the people who grow it MIchael Ableman leaves his own farm in Canada in order to visit other organic farmers throughout the United States. He is on a search for “real food” among all the industrial agriculture that farming has become. The people [...]

2012 Gift Guide: Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It by Karen Solomon

You don’t have to be a proponent of survivalist training to understand the joys of preserving what food you are giving so you can enjoy it later, usually when the food would not be available otherwise. Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It runs the gamut of preserved foods. The title says it all and then you add [...]

2012 Gift Guide: Handy Farm Devices And How To Make Them (1909)

Handy Farm Devices And How To Make Them (1909) This is a great book for lost knowledge that can still be useful today. I love to try and re-use materials around my house and yard when they no longer provide their original purpose. There is information on gardening, tying knots, supporting fence posts and removing [...]

2012 Gift Guide: Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart

Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart How much thought do you give to those flowers you pass in the grocery store aisle? Do you know where your Valentine’s Day roses came from or how they got to you? For most of us, we don’t know, nor rather care, but thankfully author, Amy Stewart does. In Flower [...]

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2012 Gift Guide: The Curious Gardener

The Curious Gardener A good book takes time to read and progresses in a slow and orderly fashion, much like the garden itself. Such is the case with The Curious Gardener by Jürgen Dahl The Curious Gardener is a collection of Dahl’s previous 3 books, much of which were originally created as weekly gardening columns. [...]