Comments on: Comment Contest With a Great Prize from Botanical Interests

By: Grow These Fruits & Veggies to Avoid the Pesticides on Store Bought Varieties

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:56:30 +0000

[...] Don’t forget to leave a comment and enter to win the Botanical Interests container gardening seeds gift box. [...]

By: MayneKitty

MayneKitty — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:21:40 +0000

I always order some of my seeds from Botanical Interests. They have a good selection and the shipping charges are reasonable.

By: kristi

kristi — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:54:17 +0000

Hi, I really like the new layout of your website. It’s so bright and clean. I think this is a great gift for a sibling of mine and her son who I gave the gardening bug to last Christmas. Happy Holidays!

By: Steven Hirschauer

Steven Hirschauer — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:15:18 +0000

Would love to win this set – have been trying to do as much green living as possible with renting…

By: Grow Your Own Birdhouse: A Great Container Garden Project to do with Kids!

Grow Your Own Birdhouse: A Great Container Garden Project to do with Kids! — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:57:13 +0000

[...] Don’t forget about the container gardening seeds collection contest! [...]

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:35:28 +0000

I would love this prize! We just moved to a house and cannot wait to start a small garden in the spring. I had not seen your beautifully updated site! Its looks great!

Lisa

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:59:11 +0000

I’ve been following your blog for about a year now and have really come away with lots of ideas for my patio next year! Thank you.

I also really like the new layout — tres chic.

By: Fern

Fern — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:09:28 +0000

Jane–Regarding rootballs of nursery plants, I don’t subscribe to the line of thinking that requires people to loosen the rootball before planting. There have been a couple of studies that have found no difference in plants that had their roots loosed before planting and those that don’t. And the risk of damaging the roots seems to me to be more likely than any negligible harm done to the plant by not loosening their roots before planting. The only time I think it is worthwhile is when you are planting a tree or other plant with a large root that has circled the nursery pot. In that case, I think it is worthwhile to disentangle the roots to prevent the large root from choking the rest of the plant.

By: Sonya Guerra

Sonya Guerra — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:48:46 +0000

Beautiful new site!! love the look of it. A really nice contest too??? I am so excited to hear who wins!

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:17:56 +0000

Great gift idea, to give nicely packaged seeds to gardeners!

Constructive suggestion apropos of the video review of the P.Allen Smith card deck: inexperienced gardeners watching the demo might not realize that when transferring plants out of nursery containers, rootballs should always be checked, and in most cases, need to be gently loosened at the bottom so roots can more easily spread down into the new container’s soil. (Realize that the video was designed just as a product review, but it’s an important step to ensure the success of the new arrangement!)

Congratulations on your blog – it’s very nicely done.