Maybe I should buy a lottery ticket. Not only did I win that great book,
Carrots Love Tomatoes, from
Rowangarth Farm when Fiona had a drawing for Valentine's Day, but I also won
The Urban Homestead from
Jimmy Cracked Corn's giveaway celebrating Urban Homesteaders Day of Action! Thank you, Jimmy Cracked Corn!
The Urban Homestead
Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen
Three of my five gardening books have been won in giveaways by fellow garden bloggers, and all within the past year. At this rate, someday I'll have my very own gardening library!
The Urban Homestead
Three of my five gardening books have been won in giveaways by fellow garden bloggers, and all within the past year. At this rate, someday I'll have my very own gardening library!
The book seems to be at home already. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteAw shucks Granny, I never win anything, maybe because I don't play :o(
ReplyDeleteJimmycrackedcorn, I will enjoy! Thank you.
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Ginny, that's what I say every time someone wins the lottery. I'll never win, 'cause I never buy a ticket!
How lucky! In any case, you deserve it, for all the gardening work that you do!
ReplyDeleteBoy you certainly have been lucky lately...two great books!! Hopefully your luck will stick with you and you will sell your property in Arizona!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats Granny. I always laugh at the term Urban Homestead though (and nothing to do with the brouhaha from earlier this month). Homesteading to me is always being self sufficient on the land you own. And really on a small plot you just can't. You have to buy inputs. I'm OK with that though. I get to ride the bus anywhere I want to go.
ReplyDeleteOoooh, watch out, maybe the new owner of the book will be sued by the Dervaes family for trademark infringement on that urban homestead phrase LOL! Seriously, that's so cool, let us know how it is!
ReplyDeleteCrockett's Victory Garden is hands-down my favorite gardening book of all time! I love that it is in your library. I snagged it from my mom years ago. I love his leeks! Anyone who has leeks like that is a winner in my book. Never watch his show on PBS. I guess that was before my time ;)
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Granny!
ReplyDeleteHow do you like Crockett's Victory Garden? I've been using it lots this year to help me figure out what to do when. I'm hoping this is the year I get -- and stay -- on schedule!
Thanks, Random! Now I need to find time to sit and read ;-)
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Oh, Robin, I hope so.
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I agree, Daphne. I'm a wannabe...kind of. I do like quite a few of the luxuries to which I've become accustomed!
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Erin, let 'em come and get me! I dare them! They haven't seen old Granny get her dander up ;-)
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Mermaid and Fiona. Crockett's Victory Garden is by far the best garden book ever written. I've had my copy since 1977, and there is hardly a day goes by that I don't pick it up and read something. I even carry it to AZ and back each year! Of course, back then they used a lot of pesticides, but I just ignore those portions of the book. The other 99% is pure gold. I mention the book or quote passages often in my blog (just do a blog search for Crockett's). I did a report on it in 2008, here:
http://annieskitchengarden.blogspot.com/2008/08/august-11-2008-crocketts-victory-garden.html
My planting calendar (see my sidebar) comes from the schedule in this book.
I'd give anything if that PBS series returned with reruns! Too bad there are no DVDs of the old shows.
I have Carrots Love Tomatoes as well as Roses Love Garlic. I find companion planting fascinating, and it seems to work as well. I agree about the old Victory Garden series as well, they were great. My favorite lately though was The $64 Tomato, histerically funny about what we gardeners go through and how obsessed we can be. Enjoy your books Granny!
ReplyDeleteI'm headed for the recliner right now, Linda! Book in hand :-)
ReplyDeleteOh how I wish they would bring those old VG shows back! I am always searching the PBS sight hoping they may dust them off and put them on DVD for us gardeners. I have the larger VG book that has lots of landscaping advice as in it as well, and it is a beauty.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the win, and yes, run out and buy some lotto tickets girl - you are on fire! ;)
Loved seeing you have Crockett's Victory Garden on your shelf. I have it too. When we planted our first garden in 1979 we had that book as our source. I still go back to it because of the month to month orientation. It's one of the best.
ReplyDeleteKelly, at one time there was a group on GardenWeb trying to get the VG reproduced, but I have no idea how far they got, if at all.
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Marcia, I have notes down the sides of almost every page, dates scribbled in the margins on the monthly guides. The Victory Garden zone is the same gardening zone as mine, so I follow their schedule exactly. It's a good thing the pages are such a high quality paper, as the book has held up well for over thirty years of almost daily use! It is honestly one of my most prized possessions. I should have it listed in my will!
Yay Annie's Granny... some stellar books you have :D
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