Comments on A Growing Tradition: Random Happenings Around These Parts

Congratulations! Go you! How'd you find out ab...

2010-02-04T20:04:37.440-05:00

Congratulations! Go you! How'd you find out about it to enter the contest?

Sweet! Congratulations on the win. I haven't...

2010-02-04T19:44:20.901-05:00

Sweet! Congratulations on the win. I haven't seen a Kindle in person.

Congratulations! That's so wonderful that you...

2010-02-02T22:42:25.272-05:00

Congratulations! That's so wonderful that you won something you can use. :)

I have to thank you to alerting me to the seeds for a song over at WinterSown. Very cool!

Oh wow, what a cool prize ! Congrats on your win, ...

2010-02-02T12:13:45.017-05:00

Oh wow, what a cool prize ! Congrats on your win, Thomas. Very well deserved !

Love wintersown.org. They sent me seeds last year....

2010-02-02T11:37:49.421-05:00

Love wintersown.org. They sent me seeds last year.

I ordered Food Rules the other day on Amazon along with 3 of Pollan's other books. I just loved the Food Inc. movie.

I'm not totally there yet, but definitly think more about what I eat and hope to get there one day.

Andrea

Well, I never... the first gardening Kindle! You ...

2010-02-01T21:33:09.780-05:00

Well, I never... the first gardening Kindle! You are an amazing writer and your blog rules. I don't even garden and I always check out your new posts! Pollan is great I hope you enjoy the story too.

take care, S

Got to love garden goodies and way to go winning t...

2010-02-01T19:22:43.656-05:00

Got to love garden goodies and way to go winning the Kindle! If they have it you should check out Heirloom Vegetable Gardening by William Woys Weaver. It is out of print but it is available on cd so it may be on the Kindle. It is a really good book, I borrowed it from the library last year, excellent read.

Congrats Thomas!

2010-02-01T18:17:46.886-05:00

Congrats Thomas!

Congratulations, nice prize. You have a lot of di...

2010-02-01T14:38:59.823-05:00

Congratulations, nice prize.
You have a lot of digging to do this year, how many tomato beds are you planting?

Oh Thomas, congratulations! mazel tov, as my peopl...

2010-02-01T12:52:07.626-05:00

Oh Thomas, congratulations! mazel tov, as my people say *g*. That is such a nice prize for such a nice and talented guy! I haven't wanted to get a Kindle for exactly the same reason...love the feel and smell of real books...but there would be two pluses: one, i've completely run out of shelf space, and you can put about a gazillion books on one Kindle, and the other, which i hadn't thought about before, is that it enables someone like my father with poor vision to possibly have more books available to him...you can make the fonts larger and increase or decrease the brightness of the screen, without degrading the page image.

Thomas, I just know you are going to be a famous g...

2010-02-01T12:26:00.454-05:00

Thomas, I just know you are going to be a famous gardener some day. You are the most dedicated person I know! Congratulations on the prizes! I'll bet you get all kinds of offers to try products now. LOL, I've received free seeds and a bottle of bug spray.

Oh-oh, you got seeds from Wintersown. That's how I got started with my tomato passion...you might just as well go buy an extra acre of garden space right now, 'cause you're going to get hooked. It looks like my entire garden will be taken up with lettuce, tomatoes and beans this year ;-)

Absolutely fantastic. Couldn't happen to a be...

2010-02-01T11:39:25.774-05:00

Absolutely fantastic. Couldn't happen to a better person.

Congratulations Thomas! That is amazing!! You must...

2010-02-01T10:28:34.944-05:00

Congratulations Thomas! That is amazing!! You must be so proud...that is really cool. I, too, love real books. But if I was gifted a Kindle, I wouldn't refuse it! Enjoy!

wintersown.org (Trudi) is awesome! I got some in t...

2010-02-01T10:00:17.706-05:00

wintersown.org (Trudi) is awesome! I got some in the other day, too....

Congratulations Thomas!! What a very cool prize. ...

2010-02-01T09:07:47.172-05:00

Congratulations Thomas!! What a very cool prize.

Like Erin, I too had that seed mag in my paws, but I also put it back. It was the soil blocker part that caught me eye.

I love the pH meter, very helpful in the garden. I didn't know about the SASE tomatoes from WinterSown, I promptly did a double order w/donation- thanks for posting about it Thomas!!

I got a kindle out of self defense. I never buy bo...

2010-02-01T08:45:57.494-05:00

I got a kindle out of self defense. I never buy books. My husband buys them all and I read them (well a few gardening books or cookbooks maybe, but fiction I don't buy). He even knows what I like and buys them for me. So when he decided to switch to a kindle I had to get one too. I wasn't in love with the idea, but I'm a total convert too. I can't go back. When a friend handed me a paperback, I read the first couple of chapters then got it for my kindle instead. The one caveat. I got a gardening book on the kindle (that was not a picture book, but just reference) and hated it. You can't flip to the charts and graphs. Reference books and the kindle don't go together.

I got seeds from wintersown too. I got more than I asked for and now I don't know where to put all the tomato plants. I love all the weird varieties they have. It is fun to try.

I just finished devouring Urban Farm this weekend....

2010-02-01T08:07:50.299-05:00

I just finished devouring Urban Farm this weekend. It was too cold to do anything outside.

Congrats on the win! The kindle is something I am not sure I would like. If I could see it in person, it would be easier, but I don't know anyone IRL that has one.

Congratulations! That is a great accomplishment!...

2010-02-01T07:41:20.758-05:00

Congratulations! That is a great accomplishment!

I have been curious about the Kindle but had no real urgency to find out more as I can barely work reading an occassional magazine into my daily life - let alone a book. I tend to do most of my reading for pleasure during vacations.

I saw the 'Starting from Seed' magazine th...

2010-02-01T07:23:16.611-05:00

I saw the 'Starting from Seed' magazine the other day as I was standing in line at Borders for coffee - I was proud of myself for passing it up but I will admit I was itching to grab it and flip through it! Congrats on the writing submissions. Interesting to hear your take on the Kindle thing, I too am sort of unwilling to give up the feel of a real book in my hands or on my bookshelf, but hubby really wants one of these for his ship's deployment. I can definitely see the use for it there!

I used to buy so many garden magazines and read th...

2010-02-01T03:46:57.373-05:00

I used to buy so many garden magazines and read them cover to cover. Then, after a year and half I have concluded that, as season is repeating every year, they are repeating their articles. Just little different written and different pictures, but it was all the same story all over again...
So I decided that I will never buy another gardening magazine until I find one that is actually bringing some new ideas, and not saying every spring "its time to start your tomato seeds".
So, I’m still looking for that kind of gardening magazine...