After a long winter for many people, it’s finally time to get gardening. That’s why Seasonal Wisdom is so delighted to host this giveaway of fun prizes, which will help increase your creativity and success in the garden. But hurry! This giveaway ends midnight, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Congratulations to Daniel B. of Charlotte, North Carolina for winning this random drawing.
A busy spring has kept Seasonal Wisdom’s attention on other projects. But we’re eager to get back to supplying you with helpful gardening, food and seasonal lifestyle information and resources. Meanwhile, here’s a fun giveaway to thank you for being so patient – and get your garden ready for summer.
The Art of Gardening
One of the many benefits of gardening is that it increases your appreciation of nature’s beauty and gives a wonderful sense of accomplishment. There is a real art to gardening, and even a beginning gardener can feel artistic designing flower beds, planting heirloom vegetables or setting up a pretty birdhouse in the backyard.
So, this giveaway is providing a few cool tools to help you create the garden of your dreams.
The Prizes
One lucky winner will be selected randomly to receive a prize package with one of each of these items:
Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Garden (Valued at $12.70)
This is the 10th anniversary edition of Fran Sorin’s highly acclaimed and empowering book, which demonstrates how the seven stages of the creative process can be applied to your own garden and life.
Yes, you’ll find plenty of practical gardening tips on everything from selecting fragrant plants to attracting butterflies to growing a container garden or native plants. But you’ll also find much more than the same-old garden tips.
As an ordained interfaith minister, soul tending coach and CBS Radio news contributor, Fran focuses much of this charming book on how to use gardening for your own enhanced well-being. I particularly like Fran’s gentle reminders that gardening can teach us valuable lessons, such as finding patience, seeking support, being kind to ourselves and appreciating personal accomplishments. This is one unique gardening book you won’t want to miss.
Hand-crafted Wooden Garden Dibber from Stumpdust (Valued at $10)
Using local and recycled materials, these handmade garden dibbers are based on a traditional English design. The beautifully crafted garden dibbers come from the Pacific Northwest, and they are ideal for planting seeds, setting bulbs or even transplanting.
Each dibber is marked in one-inch increments, which helps you measure. There’s a real art to producing these wooden garden dibbers by hand. They are so pretty it’s hard to believe they are so practical too.
Three-Pack of Authentic Haven Brand Manure Teas (Valued at $12.95)
These highly effective manure teas include cow, horse and alfalfa teas – all guaranteed to provide valuable nutrients and microorganisms to your soil. They are handmade by Annie Haven, a rancher who comes from a family that has long farmed and ranched in Southern California.
If you can brew a cup of chamomile tea, you can make these manure teas. They work well for roses, shrubs, vegetables and other plants around your garden. Best of all, these manure teas come from horses, cows and alfalfa raised at the ranch. That means these manure teas are free of antibiotics, growth hormones or pesticides. So, you can rest assured you are enhancing and conditioning soil with an environmentally sustainable product.
How to Enter
It’s easy to enter this giveaway, and there are several ways to participate. So, be creative!
Please enter using this Rafflecopter device below. It helps me to select a random winner.
Disclosure: Each prize was provided at no charge to Seasonal Wisdom. However, I was not paid to run this promotion, and my opinions are strictly my own.
Good luck everyone! Don’t forget to enter before midnight on May 12, 2015.
Please note this giveaway is only available to U.S. residents. PLEASE check your spam folders, in case you win!
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I don’t know that it makes me feel creative, but it definitely makes me feel accomplished.
Interesting, Fee. You actually probably exercise a lot of creativity in the garden. The book Digging Deep really shows how. Good luck! Thanks for entering.
Each stem, each petal & each leaf is a color & texture to be used as paint & paint brush to color strokes of inspiration in a garden. Each season inspires the artist in all of us to wake up & participate in nature.
Great giveway!
I get some of my best ideas while gardening. The solitude while tending to my flowers and veggies gives me the perfect opportunity to ponder what I have done and what I will do.
yes gardening is creative, you are creating how your landscape (or stage) will look, it is a combination of color, texture, size, etc. to bring specific plants (or actors) center stage at each season (or act).
It makes me creative by making me think what colors of flowers and what kind would look good all put together in a flower pot.
Gardening reminds me to treat and respect myself as much as I respect nature as it grounds me to be kind, creative and generous.
I feel creative when I come up with a solution to a garden problem, or a way to do something that I want without spending lots of extra money.
It usually makes me more calmer as I work in it.
yes, I think it makes me feel somewhat creative. I just love the choices it allows me to make and the appreciation and miracle of the blooms and veggies that follow the seed or small plant.
What wonderful gifts! I adore Fran and her book and I have Annie’s products too…I’m saving them to use at just the perfect time…(am I the only one who does that, buys something and then saves it!?) …more would be wonderful! And the dibblers look perfect for planting this time of year. If I win I’ll be sharing with a friend who is buying her first home and looking forward to enhancing her own garden haven.
Ilike tone creative icompanioplanting n my garden.
What a fun contest for spring! Sorin’s book is excellent; I read it years ago.
The dibber looks and sounds interesting, never heard of it, but that doesn’t mean much…lol In gardening years I am still a babe, about 6 years or so…have a Master Gardner sister, so she tries to encourage me as best she can…thank you for this interesting blog…
I plan my garden rotating the annual fruits and vegetables. My creative side is for my perennial gardens. My edible landscape is organized by color, season, shade and ph. Yellow, white, purple and wildlife food plantings give a diverse and natural look.
Gatdening makes my daughter creative, she likes to draw pictures of the plants and the foods that they will grow into.
Yes, it does. I love how my mind is free to wander as I work in the garden, often coming up with creative ideas or solutions to problems when I’m out there. I’ve not heard of this book before and would be really interested to read it.
Gardening does make me feel creative. I use my creativity when planning where to garden, what to grow, etc. It is a way to keep my brain active, but still de-stress at the same time.
I can’t remember if I’ve already entered or not. LOL! I just get so excited about manure tea.
Yes, gardening makes me feel creative!
There’s creativity in the design of gardens, as well as the creativity in deciding how to plant. Also, I paint my indoor planters so there’s creativity in that for me, as well. 
i always feel creative in my garden! I even “talk” to my plants…whether they be flowers or vegetables!
it does make me feel creative as I can blend different flowers to create designs and colors .
You can change the feel of a space by a simple change of color.
Beautiful flowers would love to plant them!
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