All the garden bloggers know Annie by now – either via Twitter or Facebook – great gal that makes some great products.  Well, let us be honest here.  Her cows/horses make great products.  Ahem… make that crappy products.  Literally.  These teas are made of crap.

She will tell you all the time…

“It’s a sh!tty job, but someone has to do it!” 

And boy are we glad she does it for us, because our gardens are better for it.  We have used the Authentic Haven Brand soil conditioner teas for the past year… and it has really made a difference w/ our plants.  Annie sent us some last year to giveaway for this same series of National Gardening Month giveaways and when she offered again – we couldn’t wait to get it in the hands of more gardeners!

We are passionate about our gardening and when it comes to organic fertilizing – we are passionate about great products that DO WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO!  This is one of them.  Of late, more and more gardeners are getting on board with moo poo tea – especially Annie’s Natural Brew.

So what exactly are we giving away?  This giveaway is a 3-pack w/ an assortment of teas for your garden.  Included: Alfalfa (for roses), Cow Manure & Horse Manure.  The cow/horse manure teas are great for house plants, container plants, veggie gardens & lawns.  So in other words, your freakin’ covered in the turd tea department!

You know what to do by now, leave a comment to enter to win.  We will randomly draw a winner from the day and post the winner.  Be sure to put your name & email and we will contact you if you win.  If you want to get some Authentic Haven Brand Soil Conditioner Teas of your own (BECAUSE YOU DON’T WANT TO WAIT TO WIN), then head over to her awesome website and pick some up.  I swear I saw some free shipping action going on. 

One other thing… TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW!  Tweet it, Facebook it – call your mom, cousin, bestie – hell even your enemies.  Do what you can to help us keep this thing going.  Run WILD with it!  Until next time… good luck & good gardening.

Tags: Container Gardening, Flowers, Free Stuff Contests, Gardening, Gardening Give Aways, Gardening Tips, Link'age, Living Green, Make A Difference, National Gardening Month, Organic Fertilizer, Organic Gardening, Recession Gardening, Reviews, Seeds & Seedlings, Springy, West Texas Gardening, raised beds by James
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How many of you guys/gals out there have kids?  How many of you have a spouse that is basically a kid?  How many of you… are basically a kid? 

**raises hand**

Glad we got that out of the way.  This next giveaway (#3 of 1,202,390.0929) is designed to get kids into gardening early.  This company isn’t sponsoring this one, we actually picked these up a while back from Woot.com in order to giveaway to some of you parents – so gardening could be a family affair.  Cool idea huh?  Well yeah… until we realized we would have to pay for the shipping to each of you guys that win… then it didn’t seem nearly as cool.    We kid… we kid.  Here is what we are giving away.

There were 3 varieties, but since we are into the whole growing your food thing – we picked the veggie kits to give away.  You did not read that wrong – we said… “kits”. Yup, once again – why give away 1 of these… when you could give away 2.  Wait… why give away 2 of these… when you could give away 3!  Day 3 of the giveaways, and we are giving away 3… it is like the 12 days of Christmas over here at Double D!  Except, don’t expect us to go up any higher than 3.  haha 

So this giveaway is for 3 winners, each will get a Quest Learn & Grow Seed Starter Kit (Organic Vegetables).  These kits include – Carrot Seeds, Tomato Seeds & Radish Seeds.  It comes w/ soil, decorative rocks, a mini spray bottle, 6 paints w/ paintbrush (so you can decorate the wooden terrarium and a book to learn more about how to do it all.  In other words, EVERYTHING you will need to get going.

On this one, if you have already won something – don’t sweat it… you can still enter.  We paid for this out of our pockets, so we don’t mind giving them to absolutely anyone that enters – because we make up the rules around here.  That is what you get to do when you are the boss. 

Just like w/ any of these giveaways – it is simple, just leave a comment w/ your name & email addy and we will do the rest.  If you post your comment and you have never posted before here at Double Danger, it will not show up immediately.  We approve every comment, because spammers suck!  So don’t submit 900 of them, thinking you are doing something wrong.  You’re not.  I’m probably slightly drunk and haven’t got to the email to approve your comment yet.  I will – give me time. 

The only difference with this giveaway – we are actually going to run this until Monday morning.  Because it is Easter weekend, and I don’t think anyone wants their product posted on Easter when no one is going to be around to check it out.  So we will run this one for all day today (Saturday) & all day tomorrow (Sunday).  Because… once again, we make the rules.  So get to commenting, get to sharing this on Twitter, Facebook and w/ your friends/enemies/cousins/brothers/sisters/aunts/uncles/neighbors/kids/their kids/grandma/grandpa/the pool boy – whoever might enjoy having these grow kits. 

Until next time… good day & good gardening!

Tags: Container Gardening, Crafty Crap, DIY, Design, Drunk, Eating At Home, Food, Free Stuff Contests, Gardening, Gardening Give Aways, Gardening Tips, Growing Carrots, Growing Radishes, Growing Tomatoes, Living Green, Make A Difference, National Gardening Month, Organic Gardening, Pictures, Recession Gardening, Seeds & Seedlings, Springy by James
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We vowed not to get behind early this year.  If there is anything worse than getting behind - it is getting behind so early in the year.  Last year we started late, and like in most cases – time is something you cannot make up for.  You can always fertilize more (organically of course!), or maybe keep some lights on them a lil longer – but when it is all said and done, it will all come back to you haunt you.

We did “OK” with peppers last year, late tomatoes… eggplant… okra was perfect.  But anything early in the season – a BIG FAT FAIL.

No early peppers, no early tomatoes… hell our tomatoes seemed to be mediocre for 80% of the growing season last year and if it wasn’t for the mild temps for most of Fall – we would have been near to SHUT OUT on tomatoes. 

But this year we weren’t going to let it happen.  We started the end of Jan.  Built us a brand new grow shelf – and now we are reaping the benefits of the time we invested so early.  Hopefully we will have LOTS of plants this year to share with friends and family (we hoped to do that last year and it was a flop).

All that to say this…

We spent our Valentine’s Day getting our first batch of tomatoes potted up for the first time this early growing season. 

How ya like that internets? CHECK ‘EM OUT!

How are you seedlings doing?  Have you potted up for the first time yet? 

Lots of people are wondering…

When Do We Pot Up Tomatoes For The First Time?

Let’s help ‘em out.  Got any tips on potting up… do share.

Tags: Container Gardening, Crappy Weather, Gardening, Gardening Tips, Growing Tomatoes, Organic Fertilizer, Organic Gardening, Recession Gardening, Seeds & Seedlings, Winter Gardening by James
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