Fearless Gardening book giveaway – bonus round!
Update 1/28: And the winner is Chris Watkins! Congratulations, Chris! I’ll email you today to arrange the book pickup, so please check your spam folder if you haven’t heard from me by tonight. Thanks for commenting, everyone!
Woot woot! I’ve been sent an extra copy of Fearless Gardening, a new book by Portland blogger and fearless gardener Loree Bohl of Danger Garden fame. And I’m going to give it away to a lucky local reader who is able to pick it up in person from an Austin location — i.e., no mailing available.
Just last week I hosted a U.S.-wide giveaway of Fearless Gardening. You can read all about the book in that post. This time my giveaway is open only to Austin-area readers! To be entered, leave a comment telling me what YOU think it means to be a fearless gardener in central Texas. (If you’re reading via email subscription, simply click through to my blog to leave your comment.)
I’ll draw a random comment number on Wednesday evening at 11:59 pm CST and announce the winner here on Thursday. Remember, you must be able to pick up the book here in Austin (no contact for covid safety).
Good luck to you! And I look forward to hearing your thoughts about what it means to be a fearless gardener in central Texas.
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Every Central Texas gardener is fearless for being willing to garden in the summer heat!
That’s for sure! 🙂
Oh, I think fearless gardening in Central Texas means ignoring the reality of August while tenderly and hopefully planting in March!
Being a fearless gardener in Texas is just being a gardener in Texas, no choice but to be fearless!
Fearless gardening in central Texas is all about the weather. Scorching hot to snow in January, you just have to go with the flow!
Fearless gardening in Central Texas means tossing “planting calendars” out the window and just going with your gut because who knows what the weather will bring tomorrow!
A fearless gardner in Texas does not let the Summer Death Star be a deterrent and just plows and weeds and plants through!
Fearless Austin gardening for me is being willing to experiment. We’ve got such a talented and knowledgeable group, it’s both intimidating AND an amazing resource.
Fearless Gardening in Austin means being willing to get out there in August and do what needs to be done!
Fearless gardening in Austin means being willing to suffer the occasional scratch or jab from all the scratchy, pointy things that tend to do well here.
Fearless gardening in central Texas means adapting to the climate, soil, and ecology when designing and tending our gardens, rather than attempting to force English garden plants, e.g., to thrive here.
Being a fearless gardener in central TX means planting bravely, mourning lost plants briefly, and keeping up with the weather forecast!
Being a fearless gardener in Central Texas means having faith that “life will not be contained” even when planted in rock, surrounded by hungry deer, baked in an oven, under a death star and watered only by an occasional unpredictable flood.
Fearless gardener out here means getting a pick axe and start digging in our limestone, hoping what you plant will find a crack to send roots!
I think fearless gardening means rolling with the punches, and in central Texas, there are many! I was rereading Scott Ogden’s gardening in difficult soils book, and it really struck me how different our planting palette is here now vs when the book was first published. Our climate zones & extremes have all shifted, and so have our gardens!
Not being afraid of the losses you may have from experimenting with different garden plants.