If some of you remember last year, if you haven’t killed those brain cells by now – we did a week of giveaways to kick off National Gardening Month.  It went well, we gave away a ton of goodies.  Everything from gloves, compost teas, paintings, books… just a bunch of cool stuff!

Well this year we have been working hard to get even cooler stuff, and MORE of it!  So not only do we have cooler gardening goodies – but we have A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT OF THEM TO GIVE AWAY!

We will start this tomorrow (Thursday, April 1st), and no… it isn’t an April’s Fools prank… IT IS THE REAL DEAL… seriously.  Maybe.   

No, it really is seriously the biggest giveaways we have ever had here and we cannot wait to bless our readers with some awesome gardening swag.  I already know the next question…

How do we win?!?  I WANT THE FREE STUFF!

It is easy-peasy.  Just simply come here each day and enter (only once per person, per giveaway – and if you win… please leave the rest of the giveaways for the other folks) – then the following day, we will post the winner.  Just like we did last year.  Even if you are not a winner, you will get a chance to see some awesome products and I’m sure there will be some coupon codes floating around that you can use/share.

Here is what we ask in return for all of this.  If you have a blog, link us up – let everyone know about our giveaways.  We hope to inspire a new clan of gardeners from this.  Each year we hear stories of new people gardening because of something they found on our site, and to be honest… that is why we do it.  If we motivate a few people each year, we feel we are making a difference in this world.  I know, I know… it sounds cheesy, and it is in some sort of way – but it is what it is.  We love doing it, and if it takes some work on our end to wrangle up some goodies for a yearly giveaway to inspire someone – we will gladly do it.

In other words… SPREAD THE WORD!  TELL YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR COUSINS – YOUR COUSINS’ FRIENDS – THEIR VETS, THE LADY ACROSS THE STREET – HER DAUGHTER… this is getting ridiculous.  I’ll stop.   At some point.  Tomorrow.  I just did.  For reals now.  Ok.  Enough.

Tags: Drunk, Free Stuff Contests, Funny, Gardening, Gardening Give Aways, James Is Wrong Too, Living Green, Make A Difference, National Gardening Month, Personal by James
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It all started with a text message from my Stepdad. 

Then a phone call with him.

Then a phone call with my Mom.

Then before I knew it, we had agreed to buy a plant (sight unseen) that was over 6 hours away at the time of purchase.  Seriously.  We might have a plant buying problem.  We are so bad, we even have little plant scouts that we didn’t even know were on the payroll.

So what was the plant you wonder?  Only the coolest plant on the earth… the Agave Neomexicana.  For those that don’t speak latin/mexican/plant – thats an New Mexican Agave.  Ok, it might not be the coolest plant on earth, but it is one we have big plans for.  There is a bare spot on our back fence that would be AWESOME if it grew gigantic and filled.

The guy told my parents that it might get as big as 16 ft tall (shiii… not the way we grow plants, it will be lucky to be alive), and will shoot a candelabra like spike (you know how agaves do).  Should do good in our climate, should be easy to take care of… if it just liked beer & BBQ it would fit in perfectly.

Here is a pic of it as of today, not quite 16 ft yet.  It is more like 8 inches.  But still… long term, we are thinking LONG TERM.  Check it…

Anyone have some new plant babies to show off?  This is our first big purchase of the season… but it is early, so expect TONS MORE soon.

Tags: A Boy And His Beer, Flowers, Gardening, Growing Agave, HOT AS HELL, ONLY in Texas, Pictures, Springy, West Texas, West Texas Gardening by James
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So this Winter, since we couldn’t garden… or BBQ… we decided to brighten up our home w/ some of our best gardening pictures.  At first we were just printing pictures of family and such, which is cool & all.   You know sweet pictures, ones of Grandma(s) w/ their Grandchildren or Sister-in-law(s) w/ beers. 

But as we started looking at our pictures we quickly realized…

We might love our garden more than our family.

Or at least you would think so based our Flickr account.

Anyhow… so why fight it right?  So we printed an equal amount of garden pictures and family pictures.  Just so you can see how cool the garden pictures turned out – we snapped a pic before hanging them.  Check it out…

Pretty cool eh?  I bet some of you remember them, and if not – you can print your own from our stash by hitting up our Flickr account.  We don’t mind.  Just send us lots of money and free stuff.  You know you want to.

The whole point of this post was to tell you to use your garden photos to spruce up your home.  Why pay for someone else’s, when you can use your own!

P.S. – if you are a gardener… or just like free sh!t – check in next week when we start giving away some gardening goodies to our readers.  Stay tuned!

Tags: Crafty Crap, Crappy Weather, DIY, Design, Fall Gardening, Flowers, Free Stuff Contests, Gardening, Gardening Give Aways, James Is Wrong Too, Personal, Pictures, Springy, Wine Drunk, Winter Gardening by James
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