Geeze… this is going to take me forever.  I hope you guys appreciate what we do for you…

I’m not going to talk a lot this time just pull a sh!tload of winners and make a sh!tload of people very happy this Monday morning.  So let’s get to it!  Oh and just so you know, I am not going to make the image w/ the comment & random number laid on top – because honestly… that would take me 9 mths, and I would rather deliver a child that to do it – so trust that we will keep it fair & clean!

Winner #1 (Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew 3 Pack) - Kathleen Zeman

Way to go Kathleen!  You did it!  You really did it!

Winner #2 (Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew 3 Pack) - Breno

Wait… are you a model or something?  Only one name, Breno – that’s hip.  YOU WON!

Winner #3 (Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew 3 Pack)- Travis

Travis called his shot like Babe Ruth, saying in his comment… I JUST WON YEAA!  Indeed sir… you did.

Winner #4 (Annie’s Goat Hill Soaps) - Steisy

Now you can wash your garden hands w/ some awesome Goat’s Milk Soap!  Way to go Steisy (also a model apparently).

Winner #5 (The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Composting) – Colleen Vanderlinden

I know I am going to catch hell for this one, as Colleen & I both joked about her winning so we could win a Mousie – but I swear I use Random.org to pull the numbers.  Congrats Colleen!

Winner #6 (Fiskars PowerGear Bypass Pruners) – Ellen Lief

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!  Good Job ELLEN!  Hope those come in handy!  Handy… get it?!

Winner #7 (Fiskars PowerGear Anvil Super Pruners/Loppers) – Andrew

Ok – this being my personal favorite giveaway item – just cuz I’m in love w/ my loppers – Andrew… do us proud w/ it!  Congrats!

Winner #8 (Fiskars UpRoot Weed & Root Remover) – Erin Walsh

Have never tried the UpRoot Tool – but I hear it is awesome, glad we could put it in the hands of Erin.  Congrats!

Winner #9 (Annie’s Annuals $25 Gift Certificate) – Jimbo

Gladly give this one over to a guy name Jimbo!  Congrats – hope this helps grow your garden in the right direction.

Winner #10 (Annie’s Annuals $25 Gift Certificate) – Wheeler

Wheeler – you won!  Now you just have to figure out how to spend your money!  Congrats!

Winner #11 (Corona Pruners) – Alexis N. Clark

Alexis – You did it… the unthinkable… YOU WON!  Congrats!

Winner #12 (Corona Pruners) – Susan Crawford

THE Susan Crawford – congrats, hope you can use these pruners to your advantage.

Winner #13 (Corona Pruners) – Matt Moore

Matt Moore – winner.  That is what the headline would read… if I made a newpaper for this?!?  But I don’t.  Congrats.

Winner #14 (Corona Pruners) – Kathy Nunes

You WON Kathy!  Are you excited?  It is not every single day you win a set of Corona Pruners!

Winner #15 (Corona Pruners) – Dianne Warren

Oh no… when I pulled this one… I immediately though, crap – another one I am going to catch hell on.  THIS IS MY MOM!  Congrats mom, you made me… Corona gave you pruners – I think we are even!

Winner #16 (Ethel Gloves) – Catherine MacPhail

Who gets awesome gloves – Catherine!  Congrats Catherine – hope these keep your hands safe!  Good luck & good gardening.

Winner #17 (Felcos Hand Pruners – from GardenShoesOnline.com) – Heather

Mr. Cotter has picked you, WINNER!  Thanks for playing and hope these Felcos made your day!

That is it…

Wish we could do more but haven’t we done enough!  We have to give a BIG shout-out to all our sponsors, you guys have really went above & beyond on this whole giveaway-a-thon.  We are so proud to be involved w/ you guys and happy to help spread the word when it comes to your awesome products!  We hope everyone had a fantastic time, and even if you didn’t win – you will hop on this comment thread and show some love to our spons0rs.  They really did a great thing for the online gardening community and in hopes to inspire more gardeners to get involved.

Thanks to everyone who participated too – we really do enjoy giving this stuff away – you wouldn’t understand unless you had read the emails and saw the pictures of everyone having fun w/ their winnings!  Expect a “winners” post soon w/ pictures!  Until next time – have a fantastic day and an awesome gardening season!

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ENCORE… ENCORE… ENCORE!

You thought it was over didn’t you?  To be honest… we did too.  Then as people started to whine and pout – we had to do something. 

And did we ever do something about it.

Well… we can’t even take credit for this.  Seriously… this is bigger than us.  This has everything to do with the awesome sponsors of this giveaway.  I don’t think we even need to go any further… let’s just get to all this giveaway madness.  I hope you have a minute… err an hour.

Encore Garden Giveaway #1 -  Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew Soil Conditioner Tea

Yup… Annie is back… and she’s bringing her sh!tbags w/ her!  We have already given away 1 gift pack of Annie’s Moo Poo Teas – and she was so saddened by the contests being over… she tweeted me and said – I WILL GIVE MORE IF YOU WILL KEEP THEM GOING!  So… we had to right?  Right.

If you haven’t tried these cow/horse manure teas – they will get your garden going!  I mean really going!  Big blooms for your flowers & big veggies in your garden.  We are always looking for organic ways to feed our plants and these manure teas totally fit the bill!  No crap!  Well… ok… there is lots of crap involved… but you get the idea.  Annie @ Authentic Haven Brand is chipping in not 1… not 2… but 3 gift packs for this encore celebration of National Gardening Month!  So what does that mean?  3 winners!

Encore Garden Giveaway #2 – Annie’s Goat Hill Soaps

So you have been dealing w/ the garden all day – you got garden soil under your nails and you just want to clean up.  The last thing you want to do is use some run of the mill soap laden w/ chemicals and junk you flat out shouldn’t be lathering up with.  We have the answer… well – actually Annie’s Goat Hill Soaps has the answer!  This soap is made from goat’s milk!!  Real goat’s milk!  Hand crafted… one of a kind goodness.  Skin safe, scented or unscented – keep it as natural as you would like.

Annie is going to throw in 2 bars of soap to one winner!  That soap will last you FOREVER! 

Encore Garden Giveaway #3 – Complete Idiot’s Guide to Composting

Everyone was sad when Deb won the only copy of Chris McLaughlin’s soon to be out book – The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Composting… so Chris agreed to giving yet another copy of her book away!  Once again… this book will not be out until next month – but you can get a SIGNED copy of this book for FREE!  You will never have another question when it comes to composting – that is for sure… and if your and idiot – you won’t be for long.  (Go sign up for The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Composting’s Fan Page on Facebook)

So if you are anyone but Deb – here is your chance to win a copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Composting… and you can be composting w/ the best of them!  Just to recap… 1 book to 1 winner.

Encore Garden Giveaway #4 – F-F-F-FISKARS IS BACK (no way… YES WAY)

I said they were done.  They said they were done.  Then this whole encore garden giveaway started rumbling around… and Fiskars couldn’t resist hooking up some more gardeners!  If you haven’t been around to read my loving tales of my Fiskars tools (good, because they are embarrassing) – you surely missed out.  I am in love w/ their new reel mower – the loppers I own have earned their keep over and over and over and my grass shears – so freakin’ awesome.  If you ask me which tools to buy – no question, Fiskars own at our house.

Enough about me – let’s talk about you… or at least what YOU can win.  Fiskars is once again bringing the pain w/ PowerGear Bypass Pruners, PowerGear Anvil Super Pruners (Loppers) and also (this one is new to our giveaways)… UpRoot Weed & Root Remover.  Yup, 3 freakin’ Fiskars tools!  For those that don’t get it… that is 3 more winners!

Encore Garden Giveaway #5 – Your Favorite Nursery (apparently)… Annie’s Annuals

In the largest giveaway in Double Danger history (by far) – Annie’s had over 130 entries for a chance to win one $50 gift certficate.  After such a response Annie’s Annuals came back and said… we can’t disapoint so many people, let’s do 4 gift certificates!  We said… SURE!  Well, they came back when they heard we were doing this whole “encore” thing and said – let’s do 2 more! 

Seriously – we have never been to Annie’s Annuals – but when we make it out to the West Coast… we are freakin’ going!  After hearing people talk of being there for hours and hours and how everyone was so nice – how could we not.  Annie’s portion of this encore garden giveaway – 2 gift certificates for $25 each – in other words… two different winners.

Encore Garden Giveaway #6 – Corona Garden Tools

We didn’t get a chance to touch base w/ Corona during the giveaways – so they didn’t take part… but when they heard we were doing an “encore” to cap off this giveaway-a-thon – they jumped on board w/ the quickness.  We have some friends that wouldn’t trade their Corona pruners for anything – and after going through pair after pair of pruners… we are about to invest in some as well.  We love the name – however it might be because we love beer… and there is a certain beer that shares the same name… but who cares the reasoning!

Corona, since they couldn’t take part in the original giveaway have really stepped up and are putting 5 sets of pruners (check them out) on the line.  No crap – FIVE!  Meaning - 5 people will win their very own Corona pruners to work their garden over with.  Before I forget… be sure to stop by for even more giveaways from Corona by becoming their fan on Facebook.  Go Go GO!

Encore Garden Giveaway #7 – Ethel Gloves

You didn’t win them the first time (awwww).  Then you failed to win the second time (double awwww).  But now you have one more chance to redeem yourself because Ethel Gloves is back w/ one last gardening gloves giveaway to help your hands to live to see the future.  We are proud owners of both Ethel gloves & Mechanix gloves – and we cannot say enough about them.  We both have donned ours for over a year & a half now and they are still going strong.  In fact we used ours all last weekend potting up plants, putting in new plants around the yard and I cannot even begin to tell you how often we I have used the Mechanix gloves for “manly” chores.

Ethel Gloves has once again put forward a pair of gloves to one lucky winner… that is 1 more pair of glove to 1 winner!  This is great, considering they have already fitted two different people w/ gloves already during this giveaway.  Don’t forget, they are still running the coupon code created specifically for our readers to get 15% off your order.  Go use it!  Coupon Code: DOUBLEDANGER15

Encore Garden Giveaway #8 – Garden Shoes Online

I just heard about 300 women all gasp at the same time.  SHOES!?!?!  OMG!  Settle down… it isn’t shoes this time, but it is an awesome place to get just about any kind of gardening shoes on the planet and if you haven’t – stop by GardenShoesOnline.com to check it out.  Garden Shoes Online didn’t get a chance to play along w/ our giveaways during the past two weeks, BUT… they made it in for the encore garden giveaways and we couldn’t be happier.  They have selected a pair… wait for it… wait for it…

Felcos Right Handed Pruners OR Felcos Left Handed Pruners – so just in case you are a lefty… you don’t have to try and make due w/ a pair of right handed (like I’m sure you have done before).  That is 1 winner of 1 pair of Felcos!

That is it… ha… like it isn’t a big damn deal.  In total we will pull 17 winners when it is all said in done… and that is JUST for this encore giveaway.  We are almost giving away as much stuff w/ this one as we did the entire 2 weeks of giveaways prior!  We will run this one all weekend – and pull winners Sunday night.  That will give you a couple day to be sure you are signed up (by leaving a comment in this post) and it will also give you time to share w/ everyone you know!  Throw this up on Facebook.  Tweet it.  Email it.  Write a letter to your friend in the next county… whatever way you can – get the word out!  We want this one to be the biggest one yet!

Before we wrap this thing up – we want to extend our warmest thank you(s) to our sponsors… all of you folks have went above & beyond yet again (since some of you even gave last year).  We are blown away by your support – we LOVE doing this for gardeners & potential gardeners.  Our dream is to inspire new gardeners each year w/ giveaways like this and w/ our blog too!  So if we have made a difference to you – let us know about it… we are dying to know.  Really though – sponsors… we love you.  In a totally professional way.  Thanks again.  And again.

Good luck everyone & good gardening!

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Everyone is pumped up for this one I’m sure.  All you West Coast-ers.  All of you guys that actually got to go to the Spring Party @ Annie’s Annuals & Perennials this past weekend.  We hate you by the way.  We hate that you have such easy access to Annie’s and we have to go to these obscure boring garden centers that are basically Lowe’s minus the hardware.  This is jealousy talking – pure, sweet, unedited – jealousy.

We have always kind of stalked Annie’s Annuals online – that might sound weird but it is true.  Such vibrant colors, everyone talks about it – how could you not get mesmerized by what they have to offer (seriously, look at their slideshows if you don’t think so).  It is in California, which doesn’t make it somewhere we can just drop by on a weekend.  Can you guys start a “branch” in Texas?!?!  Maybe call it Double Danger’s Delights or something?  We will run it.  And trust us… when it is time to pay us, I’m sure we would be in debt via plant purchases – so it would work out.  I’m sure.  Seriously… call us, we will talk.  Text us.  Email.  Big-fat-old-timey-cell-phone us.  Whatever it takes.  We are waiting.

Sorry you had to see that.  It was embarrassing.  Please forgive.  Maybe a $50 gift certificate to the coolest nursery on the West Coast (anyone want to argue?).  I totally used two forms of ending punctuation there – and I’m leaving it.  Deal w/ it. 

Usually money (or in this case gift certificates) seems to help anyone to get going – no matter what hobby/interest it is applied to.  In this case, it is plants… loads and loads of plants to choose from that could get anyone pumped up about gardening.  That is why we are so excited about this one.  Of course all you long time gardeners (especially from the West Coast) have known and loved Annie’s Annuals for a while now… but a new gardener might not know their ass from their elbow when it comes to where to buy plants.  With 50 bucks from Annie’s Annuals, even if they are not from the West Coast – they could pick some neat stuff and have it shipped… for zero dollars out of their own pocket.  How’s that for motivating a n00b?

I beg you to win this and give it to us though.  That would be the sweetest thing you could do.  We need motivation (**sly grin**).  In fact, I’m dreaming up aliases for Shala to use in order to win this one… so if you see Shannon O’Shay or Billy Madison on the list of comments… call us out.  Because… cheaters never win.    Seriously though – this is one that we wish we could be eligible for, but we will leave it for you guys to use & abuse at your leisure.  Just think of us when you get your awesome plants and we are sitting here w/ cactus and grass.  BoooOooOo.

Ok – you should know the drill by now – leave a comment below (ON THIS POST) and you are entered to win.  We will let this one run for today – and pull a winner in the morning.  That simple.  We keep it simple around here – because it is easier.  Thanks for entering all the contests so far – it has been so much fun surprising folks w/ their winnings.  It has been a blast to be able to do this for the new folks and the old folks… wait… sorry… didn’t meant to call you old folks… umm… for the already enthused gardeners.  There we go.  Help spread the word if you would.  Everyone has done such an awesome job backing us on Twitter & Facebook – let’s see how it changes today.  Everyone will be keeping quiet, so as not to lower their chances of winning.  haha  I know you guys all too well.  Thanks to Annie’s Annuals for the garden giveaway love, and support on Twitter & Facebook.  We are so glad we finally quit stalking and started talking.  Good luck & good gardening!

UPDATE: WOW!  Since we have had such a great response to this giveaway, Annie’s Annuals has decided to create a coupon code for everyone here at Double Danger!  ***clap clap***  So win or lose (we are all winner now eh?) you can use the coupon code: DANGER10 until the end of April to gain 10% off your order!  How cool is that!  Thanks Annie’s Annuals!  Now go run and take advantage of it… oh wait, you are probably going to try and win first huh… cheaters. 

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