Gifts for a Gardener
My mom is an avid gardener, as is my dad. Growing up we had a huge garden and grew most of our own food. My mom canned like crazy in the fall to preserve all of our hard work for winter enjoyment. My parents don’t grow as many edibles now and they focus their time cultivating beautiful flower gardens. So what do you buy for an avid gardener who has everything? A local garden gift membership of course.
For Mother’s & Father’s day I bought my parents a gift membership to Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens. They both love spending the morning there walking around the garden. Now they can go as often as they want (and since they can take guests I can go along as well). I just got the membership since my dad was out of the country till now (I wanted to make sure they get the most out of their membership).
I think these kinds of gifts are perfect. You give someone an experience instead of something tangible.
I will surely be buying more gifts like these in the future.
So anyone else like giving gifts of zoo, garden or museum memberships?
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Beautiful Beneficials
Queen Ann’s Lace was one of my grandmother’s favorite flowers. I know they’re considered a weed, but they are a beneficial plant to have around the garden. They attract beneficial insects and they are edible and can be used for medicinal purposes as well. Most of the plants we classify as weeds were brought our country by immigrants long long ago for specific purposes. This Garden is Illegal has a great post about Queen Ann’s Lace.
I pull some of the Queen Ann’s Lace from my gardens, but I try to leave some around, it’s just too pretty to get rid of it all.
Do you have any weeds/wildflowers growing in your gardens?
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Can I Get a Hip-Hip-Horray for the Ohio Department of Health?
While at the farmer’s market on Saturday I noticed a sign at one of the booths.
The farmer’s market accepts WIC. I’ve heard of larger communities in more progressive states doing this, but I didn’t know the program had reached rural Ohio. How exciting. I sure hope that there are a lot of people taking advantage of this program.
Is this happening in your area? I sure hope so.
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Too Many To-Do’s
There’s so much to do in the fall garden. With all of the canning & preserving, I’ve spent most of my time indoors trying to make sure we can continue eating locally this winter. So my list of to-do’s in the garden keeps getting longer and longer. What is on that list?
I’m sure I’ll keep adding more as I cross things off, I don’t know if I’ll get it all finished this fall.
So what does your to-do list look like for this fall?
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Algonquin Mill Festival
If you live in NE Ohio, this coming weekend (October 10-12) is the Algonquin Mill Festival. It’s always a must visit for us every year. If you’re free head down for a few hours. We’ll be heading down Sunday afternoon for sure.
It’s a great little festival with steam engines large & small, a steam powered saw mill which is incredible and kind of scary all at the same time. They sell delicious pancakes made with freshly ground flour from the mill, so make sure you save room for those. They also have horses pressing sorghum that’s boiled down into sorghum molasses that you can buy (which makes a delicious sorghum pecan pie – no corn syrup needed).
Anyone else have any local fall festival that’s a must visit?
