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Giveaway – Enter to Win 1 of 3 Botanical Interests Seed Collections

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Earlier this year my friends and I were given a special behind the scenes tour of the Botanical Interests Seed Company in Broomfield, Colorado. It was really awesome to meet everyone who works behind the scenes and to hang out with Owner Curtis Jones and my on-line boyfriend Ryan.

Ryan recently sent me a big box of goodness and included were 3 seed collections to give away: the Container Vegetable Seed Collection, Fast Food Seed Collection and the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection All of these seed collections would be perfect for the newbie garden or the more experienced one.

All you have to do to enter this giveaway is leave a comment below and let us know which seed collection you would like to win, and what is your favorite thing to grow in your garden. If you are new to gardening, no worries, just let us know what you are going to try and grow this year.

container garden seeds

Container Vegetable Seed Collection

Carrot Tonda di Parigi (1 Gram)
Cucumber Spacemaster (2 Grams)
Kale Dwarf Blue Curled (3 Grams)
Lettuce Mesclun Farmer’s Market Blend (1.5 Grams)
Onion Bunching/Scallion Tokyo Long White (2 Grams)
Pepper Sweet Cherry Blend (30 Seeds)
Spinach Lavewa (3 Grams)
Tomato Bush Better Bush (24 Seeds)

vegetable seeds that grow quick

Fast Food Seed Collection

Bean Bush Contender Organic (15 Grams)
Beet Early Wonder Organic (2 Grams)
Broccoli Raab Rapini Organic (1 Gram)
Lettuce Mesclun Farmer’s Market Blend (1.5 Grams)
Radish French Breakfast Organic (4 Grams)
Spinach Tyee Organic (3 Grams)
Squash Summer Early Prolific Straightneck (2 Grams)

organic vegetable seeds garden

Super Organic Salads Seed Collection

Cress Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled Organic (750 Mg)
Arugula Rocket Salad Organic (1 Gram)
Endive Olesh Tres Fine Organic (400 Mg)
Lettuce Butterhead Marvel of Four Seasons Organic (750 Mg)
Lettuce Leaf Red Sails Organic (750 Mg)
Lettuce Romaine Parris Island Organic (1 Gram)
Radish French Breakfast Organic (4 Grams)
Spinach Tyee Organic (3 Grams)

Rules

1 entry per person/ip address. If you cheat, you will totally be disqualified.

This giveaway ends Sunday, April 7th, 2013 @9 pm PST and the winners will be announced in the Monday, April 8th, 2013 edition of Mornings with Mavis.  You will be notified via email and have 48 hours to claim your prize. If you do not claim your prize within 48 hours these seeds will be donated to a local community garden.

Good Luck!  I hope you win!

♥ Mavis

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Comments

  3. Connie says

    FAST FOOD SEED COLLECTION
    Organic !!!! Excellent !!! That’s what I wanted to do this year anyway. I haven’t consciously done organic or non-gmo before but it’s time for us to all do it !! This collection works for me since I’m trying to eat more salads and protein to get me back on weight control and all around well being. These help both physically and mentally .
    Favorite things to grow in my garden would be tomatoes since we all like to take a shaker of sea salt and graze our way thru the garden.

  5. Shelley says

    I would love the fast food collection because beet seeds are included. I can’t get enough of ’em lately! I always grow beets in my garden for myself and for my elderly neighbor next door – unfortunately she passed away a couple of months ago. Its gonna be sad pulling up those first beautiful beets knowing she’s not there to share them with me!

  7. Christina says

    Container Vegetable Seed Collection would be wonderful! This is my first year starting seeds from Botanical Interests. I have seeds started in kitchen window. So far, artichokes, mesclun lettuce and purple cabbage! Love seeing them so green and happy every morning.

  8. Allison says

    Fast Food!! :o) Actually I’d be happy with any, but since we have to pick one, Fast Food it is. w00t!

  9. Russell says

    Would love a little Fast Food. Trying to get the kids to eat healthier and by telling them it’s fast food it might work after they help plant it.

  10. Melissa W. says

    The container garden set would be wonderful. This is my first year with a garden and since we live in the county w/no deer fence until next year … everything I plant will have to be in containers! So far I have a few tomato and pepper starts going in my greenhouse. Very excited!

  11. Tara says

    I would love the super organic salads seed collection! I love growing any/everything in the garden, but the one thing I refuse to buy at the grocery store and patiently wait for garden fresh is tomatoes, there simply is no substitute.

  12. Megan says

    I would love to win the fast food seed collection. All stuff that my family likes=). My favorite thing to grow in the garden is….probably tomatoes. So stinkin’ delish!

  13. Ashley says

    We’re trying a small garden and a bunch of container plants for the first time this summer, so I’d love the container veggie pack! So far my favorite thing to grow has been small container tomatoes (the seeds were Botanical Interests 🙂 )

  15. Carla says

    I would love to win the salad seeds. My favorite thing to grow is melons because my son loves them so. Unfortunately, the thing that I’m best at is weeds. But I’m learning!

  16. Maureen says

    How exciting! We love our organic garden and herb garden….I would be thrilled to plant the Fast Food Seed Collection. Our favorite thing to grow in the garden are tomatoes with cucumbers, lettuce and kale close behind!

    mruble38@gmail.com

  18. Kate says

    I would love to win the container vegetable collection. I only have a small area to grow stuff in so it would be perfect! My favortie thing to grow are herbs because they don’t take up much room and they’re impossible to kill!

  20. TWG says

    I’ve done mostly flower gardening but this year I’ve decided to try a few vegetables in containers. I’ve already got a few tomatoes started.

  21. Meg says

    I’d love to win the container veggie seed collection! Those sweet peppers sound awesome and I need something to grow other than blackberries & strawberries! 🙂 Love your blog Mavis!

  22. Lisa C says

    I would like the Fast food collection. I like growing my own vegetables and also can quite a few of them

  23. Betty AD says

    I like this collection….Container Vegetable Seed Collection

    Favorite things to grow are tomato’s/cucumbers.

  24. Jacqui J. says

    The super organic salads seed collection!! I want salads!!! But I live in Florida, is it possible if I don’t grow inside??

  25. Barbara Sprague says

    I wish I could enter into all three! We are looking forward to starting a garden.
    BUT, if I had to pick only one it would be the Container Vegetable Seed Collection
    Thank You!!!

  28. Sheila says

    I would love to win the container seed selection! My favorite things to grow are strawberries, tomatoes and zucchini–but as long as I get to play in the dirt, I’m happy with anything!

  30. Kari A. says

    Container Vegetable Seed Collection. We are limited in what we can do for gardening because of our condo association, so I am going to see how much food I can grow on my deck and patio! My favorite thing to grow is tomatoes —YUMMY!

  31. Sian says

    Hey! I posted on the facebook comments section, wasn’t sure which it was supposed to be. But i’d really like the container plant collection pretty please 🙂

  33. Jessica G! says

    I would looooove to get the container veggie seed collection. My 11 year old son has been asking if we can plant some peppers and tomatoes. Thank you for the giveaway! You rock Mavis!

  34. Ceci says

    I would love the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection to go with the new healthy lifestyle I am trying to adopt!

  35. Kristin Condon says

    I would love any of those 3 collections!!! I’m very new at gardening, but put in two big raised beds this year and so far, have planted 20 different herbs, 4 kinds of tomatoes, squash, zucchini, 3 kinds of chiles, cucumber, okra, and tomatillo. Crossing fingers for a bountiful season so I can share with all of our neighbors and friends!!!

  36. Brianne says

    Container Vegetable Seed Collection would be amazing! Having never grown anything, I’d be happy if anything I planted grew… maybe tomatoes?

  37. Stacey Cram says

    I’d love the container vegtables seed collection. I love growing beans because I love to see my kiddos inside the bean tepees eating beans off the vine.

  38. Faith says

    I’d love to win the container garden seed collection! Thanks for the great giveaway!

  39. Jo B. says

    Haven’t had a garden for quite a few years, looking forward to having some fresh sugar snap peas again. The Container Vegetable mix sounds fun.

  40. Martha says

    What a wonderful giveaway! I would love the Container Vegetable Seed Collection, but really, all of them would be precious to me! 🙂 I don’t really have ONE favorite thing to grow, but I do love growing peas because they’re pretty, they’re easy, and the kids love to pick them and eat them fresh from the plant! Thank you for the opportunity to win!

  42. Teresa Schawo says

    I would love to win the Container Vegetable Seed Collection. I love growing tomatos. Nothing like a homegrown tomato

  46. Melinda says

    Fast food collection! I love to grow ground cherries- they look like little lanterns and are a sweet tasty snack!

    Thanks

  47. Monica Brown says

    I would LOVE the container seed collection! I have always helped my parents with their garden and this year I am going to grow my own. I live in the city with a small yard with an even smaller section that gets the required sunlight so containers are the way to go for me! I have been stringing, snapping and canning green beans with my grandma since I was little so green beans have been my favorite to grow, I think for the most part because of all the memories I have related to them! Thanks!

  48. Denise Taylor-Mills says

    I would be stoked to win any of these collections, but first choice would be the poppies. Then fast food seed and then container veggie seed. They would all be put to good use here. Nothing would be left un-planted.

  49. Jennifer says

    I would love the fast food seed collection.

    I have already planted strawberries, 2 apple trees, 3 blueberry bushes, 3 grape bushes, 3 marionberry plants, and 3 blackberry bushes.

    I love gardening and would love any more additions to my garden.

    Thank you Marvis!

  50. Sandy says

    Would love the Container Veggie Collection. The Boy always wants to plant carrots but we’ve just don’t have the good loose soil needed so I was thinking about trying them in a container. I’m also interested in the rain gutter idea! New to us this year is Kale. We discovered kale and we totally love eating it dehydrated into a chip — 3 big bunches will be gone in a day! Thanks!

  51. Lori Aiello says

    What a wonderful giveaway!
    I would love the Container Vegetable Seed Collection.
    Thank you for the opportunity to win!

  52. Nancy says

    Fast Food Collection! I’ve been wanting some broccoli raab and cannot find it around me anywhere!

  53. Cyndy Garcia says

    I would love to win the container seed collection! ME! Pick ME! oh by the way, PICK ME! oh and I just planted my strawberry, tomato, bell pepper and watermelon plants 🙂 Here’s to a good crop this season!

  54. Christine says

    The Container Seed collection would be awesome. Trying out more veggies this year. Last years favorite was the cherry tomatoes. My girls loved picking them and eating them right off the vine.

  55. Tracy Delfel Johnson says

    How fun! I so enjoy growing tomato plants so I would pick the Container Vegetable Seed Collection. Thank you for the chance!
    Trace

  56. Donna Brown says

    I’d love the fast food seed collection! I’m getting ready to start over and would love to have some fresh veggies fast!

  57. Sara Smith says

    I would love to win the super Organic Salad seed collection. Salad is the only thing green my husband will eat. I can’t tempt him with anything I grow. He was diagnosed with Leukemia 2 years ago and I could’t garden or have a pot plant in the house because of the bacteria in the soil. During treatment no fresh anything. Last month he got the all clear and is leukemia free! “Yippee” 🙂 and many thanks to all at the Colorado university Hospital here in Denver. I can finally grow and play in the dirt again. I’d like to plant an organic salad bed just for him. The seeds would be just perfect 🙂

  58. Heidi says

    The Fast Food Seed Collection would be awesome. Last year my favorite thing to grow was eggplant. Mostly because I didn’t expect it to do very well and it thrived.

  59. Mandy P says

    I love Botanical Interest seeds and would love to win the container garden set as I am attempting some pallet gardens this year (inspired by this blog!)

  61. Brandy says

    I would love the Container Veg Collection! We’re planning on putting at least two raised beds in, but for now I am going in containers. My favorite thing to grow is Tomatoes, they are so easy here in Southern Cali.

  62. gail r says

    I would love the container vegetable seed collection! I am growing in new raised beds this year! I cannot wait..I love gardening!

  64. Matt says

    I’d probably go with the fast food collection as I’m always very anxious for the “first harvest” of the season.

  65. Kelly M says

    Oh My! I would love any of those beautiful line-ups! But I have to say that the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection has peaked my interest. I am going to try microgreens this season and that looks like the perfect blend.

  66. Debbie Brubaker says

    I would totally love to win the container seed collection! We have will have some construction and landscaping work done this Summer and possibly the Fall too that would make it hard to count on having in ground garden plots on our urban lot. At least with a container garden, we could move around the pots depending on what’s happening in the yard. Win,win situation!

  68. Teresa Yb. says

    The Fast Food collection looks great. I love growing zucchini. I love how versitile and prolific it is. I love dumping it off on unsuspecting people. 🙂

  69. Heather says

    I’d love to have the fast food see collection! I’ve been really getting into gardening, and I think so far I love growing green beans. I have a growing family and every will eat our homegrown green beans. 🙂

  70. Joy says

    I would love the container seeds! I have three raised square foot garden beds just waiting on some good stuff to go in!

  71. Danielle O says

    I *LOVE* the Container Garden Collection. Last year was my first attempt at gardening & it was a total FLOP! Maybe if I had some Botanical Interest seeds it would of been a little more successful (even tho most of the mistakes I made were rookie mistakes of poor spacing or overwatering… & my aunt giving me a slug plant disguised as strawberries!)

    We just planted snap peas, carrots & radishes in our community garden plot this weekend. But I’d love some more seeds to get started in containers at home again this year.

  72. Sara O. says

    All three collections look fantastic, but I’d like to win the fast food seed collection. Trying to expand the garden this year and making raised beds for the first time. My favorite thing to grow has been cucumbers.

  74. AJ says

    I’d love the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection. I’ve only ever grown tomatoes and herbs but this year I’m trying strawberries, carrots, radishes and lettuce too so keep your fingers crossed for me! 🙂

  75. CiCi says

    Trying a small container garden on my deck this year so the container garden collection would be perfect! 🙂

  76. Tracy says

    I love Botanical Interest seeds!! I would love to win the Organic Salad Seed Collection. Wish me luck!

  78. Mike says

    Salad collection would be stupendous. Love the website, very informative…and entertaining!

  79. Bea says

    The container garden seeds please. They will be easy to maintain on the deck. I’m unable to have a small garden plot this year due to health issues, but I’m determined to have some fresh veggies. Love tomatoes and bush beans.
    Thanks for the great give-away, good advice, humor and updates of your pets and garden.

  80. Gitte Kaan says

    I would love the fast food collektion, but I am not shure a danish girl can enter this competition, but I hope so. Love from Gitte

  81. Ponyryd says

    I would be interested in winning the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection, getting started on an indoor aquaponics system and in my trial run lettuce varieties have grown the best and I am curious how well the radishes will do.

    My favorite thing to grow in my outdoor garden is cucumbers, love to pick them fresh and CRUNCH!

  82. Pam from Issaquah says

    For the last few years I”ve only been able to grow things in containers as we have a huge deer & rabbit problem, so I’d love the container kit! My favorite thing to grow are sugar snap peas, tomatoes and now cucumbers! Last year I made your “dilly” pickles and they turned out awesome! First time ever! THANKS for all you do for us! You are so inspiring and you make me get off the duff! Look for a gnome coming your way soon!

  83. saralie says

    Thanks for the giveaway opportunity, I would love to win the

    Super Organic Salads Seed Collection
    The thing I love to grow is EGGPLANT and squash 🙂

  86. Maggie says

    What an AWESOME Giveaway! I would like the container garden seeds, although each one sounds great in its own right. I only have two raised beds because we live on a small city half lot, but will be trying square foot gardening this year to hopefully give us as much produce as possible. With 7 mouths to feed, all of them veggie-loving, I want to maximize our space. My favorite thing to grow is probably tomatoes because of the yum factor and the high yield! My five year old is growing carrots and the 4 year old wants to grow lettuce. The other 4 aren’t picky, they just want the veggies!

  87. Heather says

    I would love the container garden seeds since I am just getting started on gardening.

  88. Stacy T says

    I would love to win the Fast Food Seed Collection – my favorite thing to grow in the garden is cucumbers and cherry tomatoes for my kids!

  89. Angela Hellerud says

    What a wonderful offer. My husband and I are experiencing our first year of retirement and looking into container gardening as an option for us to continue our.love for gardening. I have severe neck issues and he has service connected disabilities (Iraq Vet) and this seems the way to go.
    We would be interested in your container seed giveaway.

    Thank you and keep the blog!!!
    Angela

  90. Amanda says

    The salad collection would make my little heart sing! We are letting our 3 year old help us with the garden this year and that kid loves her some salad!

  91. Katrina says

    I would love to win the Organic Salad Seed collection. I like how you can have fresh salad all summer long by planting every couple of weeks.

  93. Sarah says

    I would love the container seeds collection. Looking forward to gardening for the first year at a new house. I’m planning on lots of varieties of tomatoes!

  95. Susan Sharp Mirgeaux says

    The super organic salad mix would be fantastic!!! Would love to try those, and I think they would work the best in my geographic area! Thanks so much for the opportunity to enter the drawing 🙂

  96. Kim says

    Love to grow and EAT summer home-grown tomatoes! Put me in the running for the Super Organic Salad Seeds! Ever since my friend Lisa in grad school introduced me to the fact there is more to salad than just iceberg, I’ve love to mix and match and grow different kinds of lettuces and greens! Most of these in the package are new to me and I’d love to try them! Crunch! Summer = Yummy Salads!

  97. Jane says

    This is great! I would love the Container Vegetable collection. I’m really going to go all in and start gardening this year, this would be a good start 🙂

  98. Anne F. says

    I would like to win the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection because I love, love, love salads.

    My current favorite thing to grow is alpine strawberries because I can tuck them into open spots in my front yard and they look totally ornamental,
    plus the berries are tiny bites of yumminess.

    Thanks for the give-away,
    ~Anne

  99. Marsha says

    I’d loooooooooooove the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection!! I try, and fail, to grow many things…but trying is what’s important!

  100. Barb says

    Any of the seed collections would be great, but if I had to choose just one, I would probably pick the container garden seeds. I love tomatoes!

  101. Laurel says

    I would love the fast food or veggie collection. I like trying new things and there are new things in each of those that I would like to try this year. I love my red raspberry patch and like seeing the tomatoes, peppers and beets grow too!

  102. Sveta says

    I would like to win the Container vegetable seed collection. My favorite things to grow are herbs and berries (strawberry, gooseberry, etc.).

  105. Jen says

    Container veggies please! I like growing zucchini because we really like to eat it. Think of all the zucchini-money savings!! 🙂

  106. Pat Giaquinta says

    I would love to win the Container Vegetable Seed Collection. I love the seed packets, too ~ they look like vintage packets. Thanks for the chance to own these great seeds & to see them grow in my garden.

  107. Natalia says

    I would love the super organic salads seed collection! Pleeaaaseeee! Oh, and I love to grow eggplant! Love me some eggplant parmigiana! Organic salad would go excellent with it! Don’t you think 😉

  108. Noelle says

    Fast food seed collection. My favorite things to grow are peas and beans because I know they’re always going to produce for me and I love to eat them straight from the garden!

  109. Debbie McMurry says

    I would love to get the Super Organic Salad Seeds. We plant all veggies and plant a very large lettuce area.

  110. Nicole says

    The Fast Food collection would be awesome. This is the first year getting my garden started, I’m looking forward to the harvest!

  111. Susan Reid says

    THE FAST FOOD COLLECTION PLEASE!
    Because it includes Broccoli Raab. I have always wanted to grow this because my maiden name was Rabe ( pronounced Rarb) and love that I share a name with a vegetable. Ha.

  112. randi says

    Fast Food Seeds?! I would love to ‘grow’ fast food in my planters! My favorite thing to grow so far has been Kale.

  113. Angie Ruby says

    I would love the Fast Food Seed collection.

    I love to grow anything. It never gets old seeing it all sprout up. My favorite last year was the parisian mkt carrots I planted. Yum!

  114. Julie Johnson says

    I would love to win the vegetable container seeds. This is going to be my first attempt at gardening. My kids are really excited about trying to plant a garden. Hopefully it turns out ok.

  115. Sheila M. says

    Container Vegetable Seed Collection…it will be a good excuse to buy some containers. My favorite thing to reap from the garden is raspberries, but cherry tomatoes are a close second.

  116. Susan says

    I would love to have any one of them, but my favored one would be the container veggie garden pack. I love gardening love reading about what you are doing. Thanks for all you do.

  117. Lisa says

    We would LOVE the container gardening seed set. We are growing in a super small space (about 12′ x 12′ – the size of a bedroom I guess) and have had fabulous luck growing in containers spaced around the garden beds. I have tons of empty pots with nothing to put in them right now…

  119. Amy P says

    Love the seeds included in the veggie container seed garden. My favorite thing to grow are cherry tomatoes

  120. Melody says

    I would love to win the container gardening set, since we live in a townhouse with a teeny excuse for a back yard. 🙂 I’m hoping to grow lots of tomatoes this year, because nothing tastes better than a homegrown tomato!

  121. Lara says

    Any of those would be awesome! We are new to gardening this year and we are using square foot gardening… So far we have spinach peas and radish sprouting!

  123. Kelly A says

    I would love the container seed collection!! My favorite thing to grow us lettuce. I love salads and love picking dinner from the garden!

  125. Susan M. says

    I would love to be able to grow a huge garden, but since we can’t in our present home, I would love to grow a container garden with the container vegetable seed collection , to get us through the tough times! Some day I will have that huge garden that I am hoping for. I used to grow all sorts of fruits, berries, and fruit trees and vegetables…. How I miss planting and growing and having a nice big garden to make my boys happy !

  126. Jessica Schlatzer says

    Super Organic Salads Seed Collection!!! – I would love to win this!!

  127. Tracey says

    I would love to win the salad seed collection as I love salads. And my favorite thing to grow is tomatoes!!!!!

  129. Cyntha says

    I would be very happy to win any of these but to choose, I’d say Container Vegetable Seed Collection. My favorite thing to grow is herbs, like french tarragon. Thanks for this awesome giveaway!

  131. Marc Pearce says

    I would like to win the container seed collection. My favorite thing to grow is peppers! Sweet ones, hot ones, and unusual varieties of them.

  132. Elizabeth says

    I’d LOVE to win the super organic salads pack! I’ll definitely be needing more greens seeds, I don’t think I ordered enough, oops. My favorite thing to grow is beets, so sweet right out of the garden! The thing I’m most excited to grow this year is kale (never grown it before, but love it!)

    Oh, and this would make a lovely gift for my birthday this Friday 😉 hehe

    zabecc@hotmail.com

  133. Cheryl I says

    Would LOVE to get the container seed set. We are starting our first container veggie garden this year. I’ve had success growing herbs in the past and my favorite is BASIL! It is so yummy in salads, pesto, etc.

  134. Ellen Green says

    I’d love ANY of these, but I suppose the container garden set would be best. I have a friend who would love it, and she could use a boost right now… Thanks! I enjoy your posts!

  135. Kristina says

    The fast food seed collection would be ideal for me since I hate waiting for vegetables to grow. I had luck last year growing cucumbers with Mavis help.

  136. Miriam says

    I love the look of the container seed collection. Almost all of my plants were container grown last year.
    My favorite thing to grow this year is a toss up between my favorite straightneck yellow squash and the new lemon cucumbers that I am trying.
    ps. I hope this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. I love seeds.

  138. Renay says

    I buy these seeds all the time and love them! I would take the lettuce mix. Yum!!! With my cukes, and tomatos, and peppers and beets, and onions, and everything else I grow, I would make a heck of a salad! Thanks for the offer!

  139. donna richardson says

    I’d be thrilled with any of the collections. My husband has recently retired and he has decided to plant as much of our 3 acres as possible!!!

  141. Norma Smith says

    I just want to say that this company has the BEST quality seeds and the most interesting assortment of kinds. There is plenty in each packet and, being the mom of an artist, I love the illustrations. Lots more info than any other company! 🙂
    Also, being a seed-a-holic, I don’t need any more seeds…Congratulations to the winners! Happy Gardening!

  144. Lise Wallace says

    We would soooo love to have the Veg Container collection (though, we would be happy with any of them, really!). We just moved into the in-laws house that Mah Hubz grew up in. Doing a lot of work to do both a front and back yard garden to grow most of our food (tough economic times demand it now!). Our current favorite thing to grow is the miner’s lettuce we have such an abundance of here in the PacNW. The ones we have in our yard now are almost a foot tall in places! Delicious! Would go great with those container veggies!

  145. Diana Smith says

    Fast Food collection sounds good to me. Still waiting on spring here in So. Mo…think it got lost this year…or maybe an April Fool’s joke?

  146. SaraB says

    I would like to win that container gardening collection. We love to grow basil and tomatoes at our house!

  147. Ivy Skarwecki says

    I would like the super organic salad seed collection. My most favorite thing to grow in my garden is tomatoes because there are so many varieties.

  148. Shelle says

    They all look so great! I think the Fast Food pack would work well for us because we get frosts late and early and try to opt for varieties with fewer number of growing days.

  149. Jodie says

    FAST FOOD!! I love fresh, nutritious and easy fast garden food! My favorite “fast food” to grow is Red Sails lettuce. We are able to keep picking the outer leaves for a harvest that lasts most of the summer. I had a few volunteers come back this year, hopefully with this beautiful Pacific NW weather we are having we’ll be able to harvest our first salad of the season soon!

  150. Amy says

    My favorite things to grow are cucumbers and tomatoes. eating them fresh from the garden reminds me of my childhood and my parents. I’d love to win the container vegetable garden! It would be to recreate those great memories with my son!

  151. LuAnn Braley says

    Talk about hard to choose!

    Probably the Container Garden seeds would be the closest to what we’ve gone with in the past. We’ve usually done a couple of rows in the garden at my husband’s Mamaw’s house. But she passed a couple of weeks ago at the age of 91, and her children either have no interest or have significant health issues of their own. The upshot is, if there is planting to be done this year, me and my little brood will have to do it.

  152. Delores says

    Definitely the fast food seed collection! thanks! I am ready to start getting food from our garden instead of the grocery store.

  154. JulieK says

    We grow [or try to] tons of tomoatoes each year so I’d pick the salad blend to add some greens to the mix. Thanks for the giveaway!

  155. Katlyn M says

    Container Vegetable Seed Collection would be my choice… I love growing yellow crook neck squash mostly because they are SO EASY to grow and the produce well.

  156. Teri says

    I would love to win the super Organic Salad seed collection. My favorite thing to grow in rhubarb! Your garden is beautiful, by the way 🙂

  158. Sarah M. says

    I would love the Organic Seed collection! My favorite thing to grow is Zucchini, because one plant produces all that we need for our family of 4!

  159. Adriana says

    Container seed collection for sure! We are in sunny SoCal but are limited in space :/

  160. Brandi O says

    I would love to win the vegetable container seed collection. I like to grow tomatoes.

  163. Carla says

    Just started this year with working on the school garden. Those kindergartners would love this and they don’t care what we plant so long as we plant and they get to hang out in the garden.

  164. JennyA says

    I am starting my first container garden in our new home…any of the collection would be great to win…although the container seed collection would be great! Luv your blog Mavis…I truly wish I lived closer to you….

  165. Carolyn says

    They all look great but I think the Fast Food would be my fun to try! My faves to grow are definitely tomatoes, beans & peas….of course we like the potatoes….and peppers….and strawberries….and onions….okay really anything that actually grows and we can eat!!

  166. Vicki H says

    I am new to container and raised bed gardening, first time this year and am loving you insight. Would love the container seed collection!!! Thanks for your blog. giving me great ideas.

  167. Susan Benner says

    I would love to win the container seed collection! Sadly, we live in a condo and I have a very small area to plant. However, we are looking for some land and I want to practice now growing veggies so I can plant a bigger garden hopefully soon?

  168. Jennifer says

    The organic salad seeds would be my pick, yum! I love growing herbs and have a special fondness for my little trees: Meyer lemon, key lime and avocado. This year we’ll be growing a salsa garden: tomato, onion, garlic, cilantro and peppers. Thanks for the giveaway. What fun!

  169. Liz says

    I’d love the vegetable container kit, so I could try growing Kale. I wonder, do deer eat kale?

  170. Lauren says

    I would love to win the container seed collection, this year is the first year I will be expanding my garden from a couple of pots on my deck to an actual garden. Wish me luck!!

  172. Becky says

    I would love the fast food collection and my favorite thing to grow is beans (mostly because I love picking and canning them 😉

  173. Andrea Hinds says

    This is my VERY FIRST year gardening……yay! I have a 5 year old little girl that is beyond excited for the growing to begin. We would love, love, love to have the Fast Food selection.

  175. Christine says

    Step one – cross fingers and hope to win the super organic salads seed collection. Step two – find a way to keep the bunnies out of the garden once the salad starts growing!

  176. Lynda says

    I’d like to win the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection. I’m the Queen of Broccoli and cauliflower garden production …I grow enough for my family and the local elementary school salad bar!

  177. Lynn says

    The Container Vegetable Seed Collection would be a wonderful thing to win! Thanks for this great giveaway.

  178. Barb Poposky says

    I would LUV to win any of these collections to get back into gardening this year 🙂
    If I have to choose just one, tho, I guess I’d go with the salads collection. I can plant those in oversize cans & hang them on the fences near my kitchen door, and save my ground-based growing space for larger veggie plants then.
    I have loved growing tomatoes & cukes in the past, and am hoping that my pepper varieties do well this year 🙂

  179. Sarah says

    Veggie container gardening for sure… i am trying one this year for the first time. I use to garden a lot but live in an apartment w/out much space to do any gardening…. my landlord cut down a bunch of shrubs last fall & has given me permission to turn it into whatever i want so i am super excited about it…the last 2 years my step-mom has let me have a plot in her garden & everything failed miserably… i like growing just about anything… LOVE to harvest – love that feeling of accomplishment … even more i love to look at a group of just filled canning jars & listen to them pop….gardening is good for the soul, mind, spirit… and of course the belly 🙂

  180. MaMaLaLa says

    We would love the Super Organic Salad Greens- so very cool. I bought other seeds but not these ones. 🙂

  181. karen says

    I would like to win the salad seed collection. The favorite thing to grow right now has been radishes. They come up fast and I eat a lot of them. Thanks!

  182. Marietta says

    My husband was the gardener in the family and I always just helped with the labor. Since he died I am the one to carry on. I don’t have a very big space so I am going to use a Raised garden bed and Containers to grow my garden. I would like to have the container seed selection. My favorite thing tp grow is tomatoes and pole beans (KENTUCKY WONDER).

  183. Sally says

    I would love to win the salad seeds. I love growing bush beans because they do well every year and I love canning green beans.

  184. jaime says

    Mmmm….salads. And veggies. (Hard to choose just one pack, but the salad would be most likely to survive my black thumbs of death, I think.)

  185. Sara P says

    I would love the “Fast Food” pack, as we will be ready to grow, FAST!!!
    Our family of four humans (plus three chickens, two lovebirds, and multiple fish!) are moving to a new ‘hood in two weeks and leaving behind our petite raised planter bed. On the bright side, I am looking forward to some SERIOUS micro-farming action! More beds to be installed. Could totally use some fast seeds!
    Thanks for considering – sara ph

  186. Holly Reed says

    OMG I would LOVE to win the fast food seed collection, because I am such an impatient gardener! I almost jumped over the moon when I saw my pea plants had emerged from the ground the other day. Thanks Mavis!

  187. De says

    They all sound great but since I’m moving to an unknown house as of the moment in July, I think the Container seeds would be awesome!! My fave is tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes!

  188. Becki says

    I would love love love to win the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection

    It would make an awesome addition to my small garden I’m attempting this year!!

  190. Jennifer says

    Oh!!!! Container please!!! I had my first container garden last year after discovering your blog….going for raised beds this year….

  191. Tracy says

    I would love the fast food collection!

    I love everything, especially the tomatoes. 🙂

    Great Giveaway! Thanks!

  193. Brenda says

    Fast food, or any other. I have a short growing season due to my micro-climate. I like to grow everything.

  194. Nina says

    I’d love to win any of them. But if I had to pick just one, I’d pick the Container Vegetable Seed Collection. Thanks!

  195. Lori H says

    The collections look amazing. I guess I would pick the container collection since all my gardening needs to be in containers. I love to grow herbs! This year I plan to try (again) to successfully grow heirloom tomatoes in my containers.

  197. ASHLEY FARMER says

    (: I would like to win the Fast Food Seed Collection and my favorite thing to grow is cucumbers 🙂

  198. mona says

    I would love the container vegetable seed collection. I’ve had most success growing beans, tomatoes and zucchini. Truly nothing better than a garden fresh tomato.

  200. Gwenn says

    Container if you please. HH & I rent a duplex so we are pretty limited on what we can plant in the ground. I did get a “plot” at the local community garden (yeah!) and I plan on growing zucchini (green & yellow), melon, carrots & beets (multi-colored ones!), spaghetti squash and butternut squash. Question though….If I have a deep ( 24+ inches) and wide container (like you would mix concrete in) could I grow the carrots & beets in there…maybe some radishes too?

  201. Kim says

    How nice of you. Love gardening and would love ANY of the collections. I would put any of them to good use. If I absolutely must choose…I cannot! Ok how about the fast food.

  203. Preppy Pink Crocodile says

    Wow- how fun!! I would be thrilled to bit with any of the collections to be honest. They all have things I would just adore. But if you are forcing me to pick, I think the Fast Food grouping looks so fun.

    KK

  204. Angela says

    They all sound great… but fast food for me! This early in the year I’m super impatient for my first round of veggies!

  205. Kari Panneck says

    Fast Food collection would be my pick! I love gardening. Right now we are munching on lettuce, spinach, and kale from the garden. Can’t wait to plant tomatoes — yummy tomatoes:)

  206. Michelle says

    How cool would it be to have a Fast Food garden bed… My 2 sons and all our friends would not believe that we have a Fast Food garden bed and then we could show them and even let them taste to encourage them to grow some fast food for themselves.

    I love my 2 blueberry plants that I have in 1 container I have had them for about 3 years and I get tons of berry’s for the size of the 2 bushes. ♥

  207. Sarah Llewellyn says

    I love growing tomatoes in my garden and would love to win the container vegetable seed collection! Fingers crossed!!!

  208. Michele says

    I grow my veggies in raised beds and containers and this year I am experimenting with varieties of bush tomatoes. I would really like to win the container collection, because it has both container varieties and bush tomato seeds. Winning anything would be fabulous though! This year I am really looking forward to growing spacemaster cucumbers for the second year and trying lemon squash for the first time. 🙂

  210. Eileen says

    Hi Mavis!
    I would love to win the container garden seeds because I live in an apartment and am forced to grow everything in buckets, pallets, and a small (very shady) garden bed that is only about 6 inches deep! My favorite thing to grow is probably peas and green beans as they are so fun to hunt for! Plus, they make a great snack right out there in the garden. This year I am also trying to grow sungold tomatoes because they taste like little tomato candies! i discovered these little beauties last fall when I was volunteering with kids at a local community garden. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
    -Eileen

  211. cathy says

    the Fast Food!!! Cause I wanted to do a vegie garden this year and we still have the white stuff everywhere!!!So anything I plant has to grow fast here in the great north(WI,MN)
    Love your blog btw…i wish I could have chickens……….

  212. Sharon says

    I would love to have the container garden bundle of seeds. I am a new gardener and have limited space (living in the woods and loving it!). I have been contemplating starting a container garden this spring when the snow finally melts and am super excited Mavis is showing us how to do square foot gardening. I look forward to your blog every day, and even though I am a fan of big dogs (especially labs) I have to admit that Lucy is pretty cute.

  213. Marilyn says

    I would love love love the container garden seeds! With the weather that we have had this year..snow snow and more snow and cold cold cold weathert(the lowest since 1984), I could bring them inside and love them there! Yes, Mavis, it would be more then that I would have more to tell my friends since all I do is say well Mavis said in her blog today, and Mavis feeds her chickens and Mavis has a gorgeous yard and Mavis feeds her family of four on a hunderd $ a month…Ok I will stop before you think I am a stalker! LOl

  214. Mary Van Keuren says

    I’d go for the fast food collection–that looks awesome. And my favorite thing to grow in the garden is anything that is underground, like carrots and potatoes–With above-ground stuff, you can monitor it throughout the growing season, but when you pull up the stuff that’s been growing underground, it is totally like CHRISTMAS!

  215. Rachel Z. says

    I would LOVE the Container Vegetable Collection. We just found out we have to move out of our rental house right smack dab in the middle of gardening season. So, this means I really have to get creative with containers so they can move with me! Thanks for the giveaway. Botanical Interests is my FAV! I’ve bought all of my seeds from them this year- I first heard about them on your blog!

  216. Brooke says

    The container packet! This year is my first ever garden. I am so excited to get dirty! We’ve just planted two raised beds — peas, arugula, carrots, beets, lettuce, broccoli, radishes, spinach — all Botanical Interest Seeds (gotta love a local – for me – company that’s playing fair!). I’d love to put my front yard to work too with a bountiful container garden!

  217. Shari King says

    I have my eye on the Container Vegetable Seed Collection! Spinach is (one) of my favorite garden veggies! Just wish I could find heat/drought tolerant varieties to grow! I really need to check out Botanical Interests since there practically in my back yard! Would you put in a good word for me, Mavis??

  218. Stacie M. says

    ooh I love the fast food set! I am so impatient so I like things that grow quickly. My favorite thing to grow is kale, because it does well in cool weather (like we have often in Maine) and it’s my favorite thing to eat.

  219. Liz M. says

    I would love to win the salad seed collection. My favorite vegetable to grow in my garden is tomatoes! You just can’t beat the flavor of a garden-grown tomato!

  220. Brooke Ross says

    I would love to win any of these, but think the container garden collection would be my 1st choice. My favorite thing to grow is tomatoes! No store-bought could ever compare to homegrown tomatoes! Thanks, Mavis! I love your blog, and hi to Lucy!

  221. Becky says

    I would totally love to win and share the container garden seeds with my apartment dwelling relatives and my young kids. I’m trying to get my six and eight year olds interested in eating more vegetables, and hope they will want to eat what they help grow.

  223. Celia Volk says

    I would love to win the fast food collection because I do not have most of those. So excited about my garden this year, and so much of it is due to you, Mavis!

  224. Jamie says

    If I won I would love to try the container garden seed collection. My favorite thing to grow in my garden are salsa ingredients. Tomatoes, peppers, and onions. I eat so much salsa throughout the year and CAN NOT live without my homemade salsa!

  225. Alicia says

    Would love the Fast Food Collection. My absolute favorite thing to grow in the garden is tomatoes. In fact, I am growing 15 different varieties this year. Is that too many?? 🙂 Love Botanical Interests seeds! What a fun giveaway!!!

  226. Lauren Weiss says

    Ooh! I would love to win the “fast food” collection! Everything around here seems to be taking longer than necessary.

  227. Harmony says

    The container seed collection seems quite well rounded and awesome! My favorite thing that I grew last year was my cantaloupes. Who knew that one plant could make 8 amazing globes of sweet sweet heaven? Ahhhmazing.

  228. Julia says

    I think I am going to have to go with the container garden seed collection. I want to try to grow more vegetables in small spaces.

  229. Heather m says

    I want the container seeds. My husband and i married last november and This year is our first garden. He has the tractor, tiller and the “big” garden and I have the small raised bed garden. I am trying to prove that I can grow just as much as him in a tenth of the space with a lot less effort. It has been fun so far. We have had to replant potatoes due to too much rain and corn due to the birds eating his seed from the ground in his garden. I have had to put fencing over my beds to keep the cat from using it as a litter box and I put my tomato sprouts out too soon and we had a couple frosts in a row and they died. But, us joking with each other about the set backs has taken the edge off of the pain. And it is a learning experience. Just want to say thanks to Mavis for sharing her highs and lows. It somehow made me feel better to read that Mavis put her tomatoes out too early and frost killed them,.

  230. Anne says

    I would love to win the container seed collection 🙂
    My favourite thing to grow is a tie between strawberries and snow peas- I love the flowers on both, and I love watching my kids sneakily eat them when we’re gardening together 🙂

  231. Maria says

    I would love the fast food seed collection to share with my mom. She’s the one with the great garden! (All shade trees here!)

  232. becky says

    The Fast Food Seed Collection would be awesome. We are trying to grow okra this year. I love it in in stews, fried, and my favorite is pickled(which costs $4 a jar!!).

  233. Kimberly says

    I want to win the super organic salads seed collection. I love your site it is great! My favorite thing to grow in my garden is tomatoes – all kinds.

  235. NCJill says

    Found you through the Nester! So excited to meet ya. I’d go organic mix. BTW, asked produce kid stocking pears today what they do w/leftovers. Said they donate to local food bank. Yay!

  236. Lynn says

    I am thinking the container garden seeds collection I was just on Botanical Interests website last night adding all sorts of seeds to my wish list. My favorite thing to grow in my garden are my autumn bearing raspberries.

  238. Mrs hillbilly says

    Never done a garden but i think its time to dabble! I think i will start with the container and with your expertise i might even grow something! 😉

  239. Annie H says

    Fast food collection totally. I need “instant” gratification…or my 4 year old does to keep her interested!

  240. Sena C. says

    I would love the Container Vegetable Seed Collection because I have pretty much run out of room for my traditional garden but I can always go out and get some containers in the name of seed winnings… 🙂

  241. Jennie says

    I would LOVE the Container Seed Vegetable Seed Collection! I am trying my hand at a few container gardens this year and this could really get me started!

  244. Lu says

    I would love to win the Container Seed Vegetable Collection! My favorite thing to grow in the garden is pumpkins – I love anything that doubles as being both decorative and edible!! There’s something so scandalous about eating decorations.

  246. Rick Gunter says

    My favorite thing to grow is Artichokes because it is my wife’s favorite vegetable and I like to see how happy she gets when she sees them. I would like to win the Super Organic Salads Collection because we love to eat salads.

  248. arlene wong says

    I would love the Container Vegetable Seed Collection it has mostly everything that the hubby likes.

  249. Mary Anne says

    Fast food collection! For my daughter in law who has a veggie garden for the first time….and is sharing with the local food bank.

  250. Amanda says

    I’d love to win the Fast Food collection. I’m looking forward to cucumbers the most – you can see my garden plans here if you’re so inclined.

    Thank you for hosting a giveaway! 🙂

  251. Stephanie says

    Oh you always make these so hard to choose!!! I think I’d go with container seed collection since it has impossible-to-kill-kale (and I’m not the greenest thumb) and I live in a basement suite and share the gardening with the lady upstairs so this would make it easy to get along 🙂

  252. Donna G says

    Would like the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection. I’ve only grew tomatoes and cukes in the past. This year you have inspired me to take it up a step and plant raised beds of everything!! Can’t wait to get started.

  253. katie bowen says

    oh! the fast seed collection sounds perfect! if for some bizarre, stroke of luck I won I would be oh-so-happy…we’re moving and although i’m planting a garden for our new homeowners I will need a FAST as lightening garden at our new place! These seeds look amazing! Love the art on the front of each packet.

  256. Julie says

    I think the more practical for me would be the container seeds and the fast food seed collection. The trees in my back yard have grown so much that there isn’t a lot of sun there anymore..so I will have to plant on the south side. My 9 year old grandson will be spending a lot of time with me this summer and he always likes to help with the flowers. Now I would like to introduce him to veggies. It’s been a few years since I have had a garden and am really looking forward to growing and harvesting my own food again. This is something I want to teach my grandson also!!

  257. Cindy Williamson says

    I would LOVE to win the container gardening package…..we have little space in our new place and love the opportunity to once again grow a happy and healthy garden!!! 🙂

  258. whosywhatsit says

    I would love the Super Organic Salad Seeds! It would totally help fuel my green smoothie addiction.

  259. Dawn says

    The Super Organic Salad Collection would be a wonderful treat. My rabbits would enjoy the fresh salad mix as much as I would. I could never pick one favorite thing to grow. I cannot even settle on one type of any vegetable.

  260. Melinda D says

    I would totally love the Container Vegetable Collection because I love to try to grow something new every year and there are a few in there that I haven’t tried yet!

  262. sharon says

    I would love the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection. I am going to grow tomato’s and some lettuce maybe more if I can.
    Thank you! Love love your site. 🙂

  263. Beth says

    Organic salad for me please!! Love Botanical Interests. I ordered seed from them this year and one packet of peppers only had 3 seeds in it. I called and not only did they replace the pepper seeds, they offered me violets too at no charge!! Thank you, Mavis, for hooking me up with them.

  265. Nichole F. says

    I would LOVE to win the container garden seeds!!! My favorite thing(s) to grow in my garden are green lettuce, spinach, and carrots…. green salad, fresh out of the garden! YUM, can’t wait!!! 🙂

  267. Sheena says

    I’d LOVE to get the salad seeds! I plan on growing them year round with my new grow light!!

  268. Erin H says

    I would love all of them; I love botanical interests! They are none GMO and have tough seeds because they come from Colorado!! But if I had to choose I would pick the organic salad 🙂

  269. TIna Clum says

    I would like to win the fast food collection. This is my first year farming and am excited about all my sprouts that are peeking through the ground.

  270. Megan says

    They all sound great, but I think I’d like most the container garden seeds. My favorite thing to grow is greens, because they are easy. 🙂

  271. Pam Martin says

    I would like to win the super organic salads seed collection. We raise lettuce under grow lights in the basement year round.

  272. Amanda says

    I’d like the Fast Food Seed Collection! My favorite thing to grow is tomatoes 🙂

  273. Tiffanie says

    Organic Salad Seeds sound amazing! I am having to start a garden from scratch this year! I am going to try the three sister method of growing corn, bush beans, and yellow squash together. It is a new concept for me. Apparently the corn stalks support the beans without having to use poles. I will let you know how it works out ;).

  274. Celia says

    I would love the container veggie collection. I have to have fresh sail and tomatoes. We can’t imagine a summer without them!

  275. Holly Tartaglia says

    I like to grow lettuces, tomatoes and herbs…but I want to try kale this year. We eat it at least once a week! I would like to win the fast food or lettuce seeds! We just bought property and will be doing a BIG garden this year!

  276. Aleli Chua says

    Hi Mavis, I would like to have the Container Vegetable Collection, however, is your promo open to all countries?. I am from the Philippines and i just started living a frugal life inspired by you of course…I have a small plot garden on our front yard and are on small plots… i just hope i qualify in your promo…Thanks for the inspiration and God Bless…

  277. Andrew LaBanc says

    I’d like the container vegetable seed collection because I keep finding free used containers at the recycle drop off in rural Illinois. I like to grow pumpkins even though my garden space is too small for them.

  278. Tess says

    What a juicy selection 🙂
    I’m giving my vote to the Fast Food Collection, though it was a tough, tough choice.
    My friends and I have planned to spend the autumn ensuring we all have good stocks of veggies growing, even the non gardeners. Growing your own food is INEVITABLE!!

  279. anne says

    i am an “empty nester” and love to garden with veggies among my roses and wildflowers. would love the organic collection…as i need all the help to slow the aging process.maybe going organic after 50 yrs will help. thanks anne.

  280. Susan says

    I would love to win some seeds. One of these days I need to learn how to harvest the seeds from one year to use for the next.

  283. Kath Mason says

    My choice is the organic salad mix collection of seeds. I love salads and will be able to plant very soon when we get to our new house.

  284. Teckla says

    I would love to win the Container Garden seeds. The Fast Seed collection would be great also. I love to grow tomatoes, lemon cukes. broccoli and cauliflower. Thanks for this opportunity! Happy growing everyone!

  285. Megs says

    I would love the Container Garden Seeds!!! I am starting my first garden this year and am very excited to see what I can grow. I don’t generally do well with plants but I am going to up beat about this and hope for the best!!! Love your website! You have inspired me in so many ways!!! Thanks and keep up the awesome work!!!

  287. Jenn says

    I would love the container garden seeds…so far my favs are growing carrots and green beans, but this year we are planting 30 strawberry plants and I’m really excited about them!!!

  288. Sarah Y says

    The salad mix sounds amazing! I just planted a whole packet of their fava beans, and my 3yo and I have bee so thrilled to watch them sprout and grow. Love that their not GMO and are a trusted seed company!

  290. Matthew says

    I would love to have the Container Vegetable Seed Collection. My favorite thing to grow in the garden is Lemon Cucumbers. I pick them off the vine and eat them fresh from the garden. My wife loves them in salads.

  291. Lissa B says

    Fast Food Seed Collection
    Tomatoes are my favorite thing to grow in the garden.
    Um…your contests used to be small. The number of entries has exploded. You go girl!

  294. Kerry C says

    I would love to win the container vegetable seed collection. I have a hard time choosing my favorite thing to grow- tomatoes, basil, romaine… It’s just so nice to go grocery shopping in your yard.

  295. Rachel P says

    My favorite thing to grow can only be narrowed down to 3, I tried to pick 1 but it was impossible. Tomatoes (cherry), snap peas and carrots. The reason these 3 all tie for first is because they are the veggies that my kids love to pick and eat straight out of the garden… we are working on insisting that they wash the carrots first but I’ll still delight in watching them eat veggies right out of the garden even if it means consuming a little bit of dirt.
    And tough decisions made, I would choose the Container Vegetable Seed Collection.

  297. Sharon Weare says

    I guess I would choose the Vegetable Seed Collection, though the choice is not easy! I love to grow tomatoes because nothing beats a fresh tomato straight from the vine.

  298. Cherri Fagen says

    Because I am so excited about my first garden I am so laboriously working on I would be very pleased to win any one of the 3 seed collections. I would be especially HAPPY to win the Super Organic Salad Seed Set. I have had a hard time deciding which salad greens to choose, hence my decision would be made for me! Thanks for the opportunity to apply for this contest. Mavis, you are a gardening machine and a true inspiration!

  300. Laura Arnett says

    Container vegetable seed collection- hands down. My favorite thing of all times to grow would be square watermelons! My daddy showed us the secret to making a round melon square…. Put the small melon in a cinder block or small wooden crate while its growing and when it’s time to pick just burst the block open and there you go, a square melon. My kids and I are going to grow some this year and I’ll share the secret with them. This is a great way to remember him since this will be our first garden season without him.

  301. Jennifer says

    I would love to wind the fast food collection. I am growing a very big garden this year. We are trying a bunch of firsts and many old time favorites, basically every veggie, but corn! Tomatos are a huge priority and we have tons we are planting this year, along wiht beans, peas, cabbage, eggplant, squash, cukes, peppers, berries, potatoes, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, rhubarb, sunflowers, other flowers, and anything else I pick up along the way!

  303. Kaia says

    I’d like to try the Fast Food collection! I haven’t grown anything on my own, but so far this year I have Romaine lettuce, spinach, kale, and garlic planted in crates, peas just planted in the ground today, and plan to do herbs in the crates after harvesting the cool weather crops.

  304. Dana says

    I think the Fast Food Collection. I’ve not gardened much, but tomatoes are my favorite! Herbs are a close second.

  305. Helen in Meridian says

    I would like to win the container garden vegetables or the poppies. They would bloom early for Memorial Day vases (we do 24 graves each year. They wouldn’t bloom this year; but maybe they would spread and bloom in the future.

  306. Christa says

    my favorite thing to the garden, wel, my kids favorite thing that i grow in the garden would have to be the strawberries and green beans. every year, it seems they eat them all before i get any. i would love to win the veg container garden collection. 🙂

  307. D'Anna says

    Container Vegetable Seed Collection would be my pick since the spouse already has potatoes, cherry tomatoes, onions, shallots and strawberries growing on our patio. He’s determined to get more than 5 strawberries this year 🙂

  308. Tracey says

    I am so glad I found your blog today–what a fun giveaway! We just moved to a home with a tiny bit of land for a garden.

  309. Debbie says

    Vegetables in containers – who’d a thought? But summers now in city space beckon giving it the old farm girl try. Please enter me for that collection. Your gardens and you make me smile Mavis. Thank you for being.

  310. Beth says

    I would love to win any of the seed collections- but especially the container garden collection. I think I am especially excited to grow bush beans this year because I never have before. My formal living room is masquerading as a greenhouse right now…I have trays of seedlings everywhere…my husband might cart me off to wherever plant addicts have to go for rehab…

  311. Heather says

    Container Vegie Seed Collection Please! And I love to grow peppers…I had 94 pepper plants last year 🙂

  313. Jenn A says

    I’d love to win the container garden seeds. We moved last fall and this year I have to get creative with container gardening.

  314. Carla says

    All the packages look great however I would probably do best with the container garden seeds as I have converted almost exclusively to container gardening for the last four years.

  315. Ashley says

    I would really like the fast food seeds. 🙂 I think my favorite thing to grow so far is pumpkins or zucchinni.

  316. Destini says

    Super Organic Salads Seed Collection I would love to win this 🙂 I am expanding my garden this year and I am just getting ready to plant in gutters along my fence since I am running out of space 🙂

  317. Michelle says

    OHHHH! The Organic Salads sounds awesome. I love this seed company and buy them all the time. I trytoplant 2-3 new things every season. Everything, including 40 tomato plants all from seed and all in containers!

  318. Gwendolyn says

    Super Organic Salads Seed Collection!!! I would love to grow these for a container. I am new to gardening cause I have live in apartments all of my life. This year, time to start learning how. So I thought a container garden sounds simple and easy for a newbie!!!! :o)

  319. june says

    I would love the Fast Food collection…or any of them would be great for my garden!

  320. Tawnya says

    I would love the container seed pack. I live in an apt and the best way for me to expand is with containers. Thanks for the giveaway. 🙂 I’ll be doing my own give away of botanical seeds soon. Love them.

  321. Becky Richter says

    OOooooooooo, I hope that I win! I would love the Container Vegetable Seed Collection, if I do. We had a garden that was about 15X25 feet, last year. This year we are talking about planting that, as well as several raised beds in the front yard. With eight kidlets, we need FOOD!!! 🙂

  322. Sherri says

    Fast food for me! We have a lot of space but a shorter growing season so it would be perfect. My favorite thing to eat from the garden is tomatoes but I must admit that I seem to grow peppers better than anything!

  323. Karin says

    The salad collection woud be great! It’s still very cold here in Holland so not much outdoor sowing could be done yet. The salad seeds would come just in time!
    My favourites to grow are herbs, because I use them in the kitchen every night and it’s so much cheaper and tastier growing them yourself than buying them in the store.

  324. susan says

    I would like to try the fast food collection of seeds, though I’ve never grown a garden before!

  326. Michelle says

    Thanks to Mavis, I have the confidence to expand my container gardening from last year’s first try, to a few raised garden beds this year!! I love the new series “How to plant ____ “. Start to finish. The tutorials are a HUGE inspiration! I would love to try the Fast Food collection, it would definitely expand my horizons! 🙂

  327. Brenda says

    The fast food seed collection and my favorite is hard to choose but I love growing squashes.

  328. Kristi says

    I would love to win the container vegetable seed garden pack. My mom and I just started a garden at our local community garden. We are very excited about it. We are looking forward to growing cucumbers this year.

  329. Tracy L. says

    Super Organic Salads Seed Collection

    We LOVE our salads! Nothing like walking out your back door to pick dinner!

  330. mandy says

    The container gardening seeds would be wonderful as I’m doing more of that these days. My favorite thing to grow is heirloom and regular tomatoes. With the heirlooms you get such a variety of flavors. I love the flavor of regular tomatoes too, you can’t beat them for sandwiches, blue cheese salads, pasta sauce…oh, I could go on forever!

  332. Hannah Parin says

    Definitely the container veggie pack, as I don’t currently have a ton of room to work with.

  334. Michele says

    I’d love to win the organic salads one!

    I have no idea what we are going to grow in the garden; I should get on that soon! I recently reserved a plot at the community garden across the street.

  335. Rozella Wilson says

    I would love the win the Container Vegetable Seed Collection! I have been unable to garden in quite sometime, but am ready to get going on it again. I love to grow lettuce so that I can go out and pick a salad for dinner time!

  336. Anna Lavender says

    I love to grow container vegetables, tomatoes and cucumbers being my most favorite…If I were to select a package it would have to be the Container Veggie Pack.

  337. Ariane says

    Hi!
    I will begin a garden this year and I really love the Container Vegetable Seed Collection.
    Thank you for this wonderfull blog, I learn so many things with you!

  338. Peggy Stenglein says

    Hi! All look wonderful, but if I have to choose one, it’s the Fast Food Collection! Thank you for a chance to win these great seeds! 🙂

  339. Kristy H. says

    Oh, I just discovered your blog. I think I found it just in time. My husband and 14 year old son planted a garden last year and sold the veggies in our town. They just started planting some seeds already and would love these.

  340. Cee says

    I would love the container garden collection! By the way, I ordered a bunch of my seeds from Botanical Interests this year – thanks to the exposure I got from your website. I’m looking forward to seeing the outcome!

  341. Janet says

    They all look interesting but the container seeds are my choice. I live in an area of rock covered by red clay, so it has taken years to build up soil in raised beds. This year, I am adding vermi-composting–worms are on the way! I hope I can get over the “ick” factor!

  343. Heather says

    I would love to win any of them but particularly 1 or 3. Thanks for all your giveaways!

  344. Debi says

    first choice would be the container gardening seed set, my second choice would be the fast food seed set.

  345. Lisa Foster says

    Fast food seeds would be an amazing addition to our new home & new garden! Good luck to all!

  346. Alexis says

    Super Greens please! This is my first year at gardening. I am super excited, and love the hands on teaching experience my kids are getting! I’ve heard as a first- timer you should just try growing a couple of things….well I totally ignored that 🙂

  347. Jonathan Lehman says

    Fast Food would be my choice– my kids and I garden to supplement our diet with healthy locally produced food… and my wife has learned all kinds of new zucchini recipes to try to keep up with the harvest…

  348. Jenna says

    As much as I’d love to have poppies, what we really need is the <>.

    Favorite thing that I grow is actually a non-food. Gardenia. My grandfather had one in his yard. He’d nurse it through the hot South Carolina summers in super sandy soil. Over the years it never did reached more than 4′ (I wasn’t even paying attention to his pruning), but the smell was heavenly, and I would sit on the porch just to enjoy it when we visited.
    I planted one two years ago, two zone up from SC, and mine is already 5′. It smells wonderful and lasts through the fall, but it doesn’t compare to the memories of my grandfathers.

  349. Jessica says

    I would love to win the Container Vegetable Seed Collection. The only things I’ve been able to successfully grow are grape tomatoes!

  350. Karina says

    I would love the container vegetable collection. I have only just begun planting flowers around our house and had cherry tomatoes and basil last year. The container collection would be great because we live in Vermont and don’t have a lot of light in our backyard but I have three great decks. Now that I’m not busy putting on a (DIY) wedding (for 300, complete with homemade applesauce and corn my father put up) I’d like to do more and I think I’ll have a lot more time this summer! Please help me fill it!
    Thanks Mavis.
    Your newfound loyal reader,
    Karina

  351. Deborah says

    Would love to win the Container Vegetable or the Salad Seeds. My favorite thing to grow in my garden has to be zucchini. It seems impossible to kill and there are a ton of ways to use it!

  352. Lindsay H. says

    I would love to win the Fast Food Seeds Collection. I’m growing potatoes for the first time this year and I’m so excited to see how they turn out! Thanks Mavis!!!

  353. Charity says

    I would love to win the Fast Food selection!
    I don’t know that I have a favorite plant to grow in the garden, I just love my garden! We had a great green bean crop last year! That is, until the ducks ate every. single. plant. ~sigh~

  354. Myken G says

    I would love the container gardening pack or the fast food pack!. My favorite thing to grow is probably tomatoes, although I just bought a pack of Kale seeds from Botanical Interests, and I’m super excited to grow that! I’ve been gardening off and on for about 15 years and I’m not very good, but I’m learning to do better and excited to see what this year brings!

  355. Evelyn Pace says

    Don’t see my comment so posting again 🙂 Would sooo enjoy winning the container veggie seeds.My favorites to grow are Zinnia’s, sunflowers and tomaters too. REALLY enjoy your blog !!!!

  356. Megan W says

    I would love to win any of them! I think the container veggies would probably be my top pick. I don’t know that I have a favorite – the goal is for the deer to not eat everything this year – my favorite will be having a fence (hopefully soon?)

  357. Janice MacRossin says

    would love to win the organic salad collection. I’ve never tried growing “greens” or lettuce so this would be a great way to give it a try. Plus my husband and I are finally back into growing vegetables after a 20 year “lay-off” in which he grew only flowers and I grew the kids. 🙂

  358. Kinzie says

    Container vegetables seems the most diverse, and like something the whole family would eat. The greens kit is a good one, I suspect. I should eat more salads. But we have deer… they may like that one more than anything else.

    My father in law grows tomatoes at my house, and maybe a few pepper plants. We’ve been focused on fruits – we planted a ton of trees last year, but only got fruit off the blueberry bushes. Hoping for an actual harvest this year.

  359. Kellie says

    We would love to win the container collection because my 5 year old son wants to try to grow carrots. So far our favorite thing to grow has been ‘baby’ tomatoes.

  360. Dawn A. says

    We planted our first garden last year, late in the season. We were encouraged that a few things grew, so this year we have bigger and better plans. Maybe a few things plus a tiny bit more will grow! Fingers crossed. The Fast Food seed collection looks great. We love beets and have not tried broccoli raab. We still have snow on the ground here in MN, and our planting fingers are itching to get into the dirt. Thank you!

  361. vicki tucker says

    I like our family garden to have anything I can ,can or freeze,any of the seeds would be great to try, but I love the fastfood seeds,thanks for all your ideas

  362. Tara says

    container vegetable! I love growing tomatoes. There’s nothing like a fresh picked tomato straight from the garden.

  363. Paty says

    Hi Mavis, What a nice thing for you (and Botanical Interests) to do! I’d love to win the “Super Organic Salads” collection. They all sound so interesting and would add a great variety to my MN garden! Thank you!

  365. Veronica says

    I’d like to win the Container Garden collection because we just have a porch to grow on. I like growing onions because I can’t seem to kill them!

  367. Amanda says

    I would love to win the fast food collection. My fave things to grow are herbs of all sorts, especially basil and lemon balm.

  369. Kim says

    I would love any of them, however, I believe I would get the best use out of the container collection. I am trying square foot gardening for the first time this year and am excited but a bit nervous!! I will also be helping to get my daughter’s first garden in as well. Alot of planning, seeds are started but we live in South Dakota and the ground is still partially frozen and very cold so it is slow going!! HURRY UP SPRING WE ARE READY!! Love your site and thanks so much!!

  370. Becki says

    I would love the container gardening package — perfect for our city garden. Good luck with your square foot gardening project. We’ve been doing it for a couple of years in various forms and have great success — from herbs and peas on the parkway to tomatoes, broccoli, peppers and more in the yard.

  371. Michelle Wright says

    vegetable container seeds would be awesome! I’ve really gotten into organic food and the more I grow and dehydrate (and can) the better.

  372. Donna U says

    I’d love to win the Fast Food Seed Collection and my favorite thing to grow is Baby Little Finger carrots from Botanical Interests! They are so sweet and grow fast. Botanical Interests seeds are the best.

  374. Amanda says

    Oh my goodness! I would absolutely love ANY of those! My favorite is probably the Fast Food collection. I have only gardened for a couple years. (My first year was entirely in containers.) At that time, my favorite thing to grow was spinach because I loved to munch on a couple leaves each time I walked past it on my porch. Now, I love to grow anything! I just love growing food, period, and seeing things come to life! This year, I intend to try Broccoli raab for the first time. That should be fun!

  376. Catherine B says

    Container veggies please! I have kale and herbs growing right now in containers since I don’t have much yard. In the tiny bit of ground I do have, I just started zucchini. Very new to gardening, but my aunt keeps telling me that these guys are easy to grow. 🙂

  377. robin says

    I would love the salad collection. I need to lose weight and it would be a good incentive to go out to the garden for “pot luck” and you know it would taste better than anything from the store! Thanks for having this contest and giving us a chance to win!!!

  378. Jaime S says

    I would love the Container Vegetable Seed Collection

    I like to grow zucchini because it is such a beautiful plant, and grows easily in Northern AZ!

  379. Chela says

    The Fast food collection. I would love to try the French Breakfast Radish. My favorite thing to grow is butternut squash and sweet meat squash. We are still eating the ones we stored last fall.

  380. Misty says

    I hope this isn’t an april fool’s joke.
    But I would love the Container Vegetable seeds.

    WooHoo!

  381. Karen says

    I would choose the salad collection as salad is my favorite food. I like to grow everything and anything I can.

  382. Sarah says

    The Container collection would be awesome to win. I love growing anything I can eat & not have to purchase. My favorite might green onions or anything I can grow from pieces most people discard (like the roots of onions)! Thanks Mavis & Botanical Interests 🙂

  383. richele prichard says

    FAST FOOD SELECTION PLEASE!!! My fave in my garden is EGGPLANT!!! Love, love, love my eggplant parmasean. Thanks, girlie!

  384. jen morgan says

    I would love to try the container seeds! This year I am trying to grow an early crop, I’ve never done this before… I’ve planted radishes, Kale, lettuces, Swiss chard, carrots, broccoli, and cabbage. THANKs for the inspiration Mavis!!!

  386. Diane A says

    Fast Food Seed Collection Please!!!
    BTW…great website…just found you from The Nester!!!

  387. DWC says

    The container garden seeds would be fun! We do square-foot and container gardening and it would be fun to try some new things.

  388. Lisa D says

    I would like to win the Fast Food Seed Collection because I’m trying to grown TONS of BEANS this year. Easy to grow in the florida heat. But my favorite thing to grow is swiss chard because it’s beautiful and delicious.

  389. Amy White says

    I would love to win the Fast Food seed collection. I am fairly new to gardening, as this will be my 3rd year having a garden. We just recently relocated to a new climate with a shorter growing season so I feel like I’m starting over. We have a lot more land to grow vegetables though so that is exciting. I have some sugar snap peas growing right now and am super excited to see how they do since this is my first year growing them.

  390. Cooky says

    I use to live on a farm and would have a big garden. I miss that so I tried a raised bed last year. I would be happy with any of the collections but my pick is the container vegetable seed collection. Thank you for the chance to win . I have just found your blog , I just want to let you know how much I enjoy it and the information you share.

  391. Kelli B says

    I would love to win the Container Vegetable Seed Collection! That’s nearly everything I had planned to plant this year. Kismet? I think so! 🙂

    Something I need to grow again this year? Collard Greens. Yum!

  392. sindy Couch says

    I would love to get the fast food packets. My area in northeastern washington has a shorter growing season and I only dream of a greenhouse someday. I currently just grow tomatoes and raspberries. Our family also takes advantage of mother natures garden and pick gallons of huckleberries basiclly right out our back door. So yummy. Thanks again your blog makes me smile…

  393. William says

    I would like to win the Container garden seed collection. I’m new to gardening would like start gardening. I chose this collection because I live where I have limited space. Thank you.

  394. Vicki Worsham says

    I’d like to win the Container Vegetable Seed Collection. I like growing tomatoes and beans.

  398. Kim says

    I would love the Container Seed Collection. My 3-year old granddaughter is going to start her first garden with me this year. She loves carrots and cukes!

  399. Kathy in Chicago says

    Salad me please! I am DYING for some fresh greens & have some microgeens currently planted! Thanks for the advice on them!

  400. Shirley Hazlett says

    Hello All!

    I would like to win the “Super Organic Salads Seed Collection” because salad greens are a favorite to grow! Last summer, my deck was filled with containers of salad fixings, and it was wonderful to avoid purchasing the store-bought plastic boxes of greens. This summer my goal is to go organic, and grown enough for both my daughter and me to eat healthier, all summer long! Happy Spring~ 😉

  401. Suzanne says

    The Container Seed Collection would be awesome. This is my first year gardening after a 10 year hiatus and boy, am I excited. My husband and I built my garden bed two weeks ago and we already have tons of radish poking through. We planted peas, lettuce, spinach and two kinds of radish.

  402. Molly D. says

    I would love to win the Container Garden set! We are going organic to try to help our daughter’s Autism!

  403. Jessica says

    The fast food seed collection please!! I’ve been dying to try to grow some broccoli raab. I love growing sugar snap peas! They are easy and I love watching my daughter go outside and check everyday and eat the peas fresh! Thanks for the giveaway Mavis!

  404. jolanta says

    Container Vegetable Seed Collection
    I have few small beds so this year I am trying to expand it by growing vegetables in the containers. I am the most excited about growing buckwheat this year

  405. Kate says

    I think I would prefer the fast food seed collection. Tomatoes are probably my favorite thing to grow as well. Thanks for the give away!

  408. Jeni Simmons says

    You are so cool Mavis! Thanks for another chance at winning an awesome giveaway! I’d love to win any of the seeds but if I had to choose I’d pick the container collection. Right now I’m growing container tomatoes (I live in sunny Florida) and so far so good!!! It would be awesome to try other things! Thanks again for the opportunity!!!

  409. Kathleen Griffin says

    I love salad greens, but since my spring is about to come to an abrupt halt and they would bolt before I could get a decent harvest so…….. I think the fast food collection would be the next greatest temptation. I have the worst habit of eating the radishes before they make it to the salad….. But then there is that beyond heat issue……. So for me, the vegetable collection is the best selection, plus an afternoon with a fresh from the garden tomato sandwich sound so incredibly delicious…… Oh how I love my garden……… Okay…. It really doesn’t matter which set of seeds I choose because I love them all so they would all be a great addition to this springs garden or my fall garden…….. Did I say that I love to garden?

  410. heather says

    I would love the container package. I am so looking forward to growing beets and pickling them!

    I realized I forgot to pick up a couple of variety of seeds for the garden.. like peppers and cukes.

  411. Noble says

    Love your blog. Thank you for the awesome giveaway. I would love the Container Vegetable Seed Collection.

  412. Laura says

    I would be very happy try the container garden or fast food collection. My favorite thing to grow so far has been fava beans, picked just over 3 lbs this afternoon – YUM!

  413. kamy says

    You inspired me to try a pallet garden last year and I loved it! I am Doing one again this year and would love to win the salad seed pack. You and Lucy rock! Thanks

  415. Amber B says

    I’d have to opt for the container garden seed package. I have never grown veggies in containers – always in the ground. I think it might be worth a try as I am running out of yard space. As far as my favorite things to grow in the garden – I have a “red” theme. I seem to be able to grow anything red pretty well: tomatoes, strawberries, raspberries and apples. I’m not very good at the greens – lettuce, peppers, zuchinni. I mean who can’t grow zuchinni???? I did master onions last year. I tried potatoes on 2011, but didn’t have much luck. Am planning to try spuds in towers this year! Thanks, Mavis, for all you do. And, happy spring!

  416. Diana Kio says

    I would love to win any of these collections. This past fall Hurricane Sandy really made us change how we live. The flood waters were up to my chest as we guided a canoe with my disabled father in it over to my home. We lost many things including cars, mowers, home furnishings, floors, trees, etc. In fact we are still cleaning up! But now I have this intense desire to reclaim out yards and a very real need to save money and grow much of what we eat. I did not grow anything last year and in fact it has been many years since I grew anything. Herbs were a favorite of mine years ago. Thank you for your blog; it is definitely an inspiration!

  419. Kimberly Hunt says

    Hi Mavis,

    I would like to win the container vegetable garden seed packet. My favorite thing to grow in my garden are pumpkins. I love watching my children as they witness all the vegetables growing, but they love to see how big the pumpkins will get.

  421. Stephanie says

    Container Vegetable Seed Garden! This will be my first year gardening since living at home as a child. My husband and I finally live in a space with a patio (south-facing – that was intentional) and have an 6 x 8 ft community garden plot. My favorite things to grow are herbs and hard-to-find varietals that you cannot purchase even if you wanted to (French sorrel, I’m looking at you!)

  424. Maranda says

    My fave collection would be the Container Vegetable Seeds. My favorite things to grow in the garden are tomatoes and melons. Tomatoes because I live in New Jersey and they are SO easy to grow here, and melons because my 20mth old can eat a whole one in one sitting- haha! I I just cut a melon into quarters and let him go at it. Happy Wednesday!

  425. susan b says

    These all look great! I’d like to win the Fast Food Seed Collection. I love growing tomatoes.

  426. Sarah F. says

    I’m looking forward to growing zucchini this summer and would love to win the Fast Food Seed Collection. Thanks, Mavis!!

  429. Jenny Metler says

    Thanks for offering this great giveaway! This year will be my first garden ever! Going to be a few containers, a pallet, and a little in the ground. Would love any of them, but probably the container veggies or the fast food collections the most 🙂

  430. Andrea says

    I would love to win the container collection. I’ll be buying a home this summer and will finally be able to have my big garden. 🙂

  432. Kim Powers says

    Hey Mavis! Thanks for the give away! I would like to try out the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection. My favorite thing to grow last year was Christmas Beans. They were beautiful and then I saw them on the cover of William Sonoma, boy was I proud of myself for growing something trendy ;).

  433. Tonja says

    We would love the container garden set. We love growing and eating peas, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, onions, potatoes…okay I think we love it all. We want to try some new things this year. I love reading your blog!

  435. Robbi Denman says

    They all sound wonderful! Having to choose I will pick the Super Organic set because I love, LOVE, LOVE salads with lots of different lettuces! And the colors are always so gorgeous! I have to tell you though, the artwork on the packages is breathtaking and good enough to eat!! I just bought a lot of seeds and I couldn’t resist Botanical Interests because of the packaging – they sang out to me!!! I love growing peas – it reminds me of when I was a kid and we would just go eat ’em off the vine (and I still do that in my 50’s)

    Thanks for this great opportunity! Love the photo of the three of you, too!!! You are a nut Mavis!! (My honey said the other day, “You want to be just like Mavis, don’t you?” Of course I exclaimed, “YES!””)

  436. Mary Beth says

    I’d love to try the container gardening collection too! Right now my best luck has been with a few herbs and cherry tomatoes.

  437. Heather says

    I would love the container gardening collection. I am trying to grow a BIG garden this year, (1st time) so any seeds won would be appreciated!

  438. Carolyn says

    Oh what an awesome giveaway! I would love to win the Fast Food seed collection (fingers crossed). I’m pretty new to gardening, but this year I’m going to try to grow carrots. I got a pack of the rainbow carrots from botanical interests (carnival, I think they’re called?). So excited…

  439. Stephanie says

    I’d love the container collection!! If I don’t win, I’ll be going online to order up Canadia anyway (actually their cute packaging and variety of choice, I’ll be ordering regardless!) I love making pots of edibles so this is right up my alley! My birthday is April 8, so this would be a magnificent surprise from my fav blog!!! 🙂

    PS If I BUY the gnome at my parents in Mexico but have to ship from Phoenix to ensure it arrives, can we count the purchased from place as the gnomes addy?? 🙂

  440. schmei says

    Ooh – tough choice. I think I’d go for the container collection, though: hoping to try a mix of container and raised-bed planting this year.

  441. Sadie says

    Super Organic Salads Seed Collection sounds great for my family. We are getting into eating more salads with our dinner.

  442. Lois Swaim says

    FAST Food Seeds…Thank you Mavis! You are amazing. Thanks for your inspiration and wealth of knowledge.

  443. Mary says

    I’d love any of the packs, but since I have to choose, then I’d like the container set. I really want to try kale again…can’t get enough of that tasty leaf! thanks for your giveaway and all the inspiration, Mavis!

  444. Clover says

    I would love Container Vegetable Seed Collection. We haven’t built raised beds yet, so we are focusing on containers for now. I can’t wait to plant cilantro, tomatoes, jalapenos and onions for some amazing salsa! Oh, and because of your site I’m going to try planting potatoes! I can’t wait! Thanks!!!

  446. Janet says

    Hi Mavis, You are the best!! I love your comments and your great ideas. I would love to win the Super organic salads seed collection. We eat a salad every day and salad greens grow well in the PNW.
    Thank you!
    Janet
    Woodway,WA

  447. Loree says

    I love growing heirloom tomatoes — the color, beauty and of course taste!

    I would choose the Fast Food set :).

  449. Ginelle says

    Any collection would be great. I am really trying to “grow” my garden this year.

  450. Heather says

    I would love the salad collection. And my favorite thing from the garden is lettuce, I love salads but my least favorite think is limp lettuce from the store.

  451. Jennifer says

    I’d love the container vegetable seed collection! My favorite thing to grow is pumpkins for Jack-o-lanterns. Their leaves are so dramatically large and however the pumpkins turn out, it’s never a bad thing!

  453. Lisa Jo suhr says

    I would love the Container Vegetable Seed Collection. I haven’t gardened much but want to grow a salad garden this year to keep us stocked up with greens and vegetables. My favorite thing to grow is tomatoes so far but I’m ready to expand.

  454. Karen J. says

    Ooooh, I’d love to win the Container Vegetable Seed Collection (although I’d probably be equally pleased to win one of the others too if truth be told :)).

    For my garden this year, I already have snap peas planted (upstate NY– it’s about all I can put in yet) and plan to add potatoes, lettuce, squash, beans, dill, basil, and tomatoes when it’s finally warm enough to get them in. I admit to looking longingly at all the things you’ve already got started in your garden.

  455. Hannah says

    The Organic Salad Greens collection looks scrumptious!

    We are currently in process putting in a garden in at our new house and we are attempting Square Foot Gardening after many years of half-hearted row gardening at our old house. I’m excited to see how our plants do this year. My favorite things to grow are cucumbers. They are almost fool-proof, but so satisfying and delicious.

  457. Renee says

    The Container Garden sounds great for me. I try to grow things in containers or raised beds since the soil where I live is terrible. I can also put the containers closer to my house for easier care. I love to grow Sweet 100’s tomatoes in containers. This year I have a strawberry patch going in a raised bed…hope I will get something. Also trying red and blue potatoes in buckets from the bakery department of the grocery store.

  458. Susan says

    I would love the salads collection. I just ordered my first batch of botanical interests seeds (beets and sprouts) and I am so excited to try them!

  459. Mary W. says

    Ooooh, that’s a hard decision. I guess if you MADE me decide it would be the Fast Food Collection, but it’s a close call.

    In my garden, there are two things I grow that NEVER let me down, and that is peas and kale. Obvs I live in the Northwest, lol!

  461. Rebecca Cafouros says

    Although any one of these would be perfect, the Fast Food Collection would be a lovely prize! Thanks for all your wisdom and passing on the deals! Yours is the only blog that I read daily without fail. 😉

  462. carol says

    The collections all look spectacular, but I’m hoping to win the container seed collection. I’m currently expanding my garden to the west side of the house to grow more food, but it is definitely a transitional spot and consists of lasagne mulch right now. Would love to have some containers this summer to grow a few veggies while we wait. Thanks for doing this!

  463. kris p. says

    I would love to try the container seeds, although they all look wonderful. My favorite thing to grow are tomatoes. A fresh grown tomato can’t be beat!

  464. Marie says

    I’d love them all 🙂 But I think I’d settle for the container seeds. Just found your website today and I love it!

  465. Mike Bernardoni says

    I would be interested in the “Container Vegetable Seed Collection”..I don’t have a lot of space because my 12 chickens eat everything up. I can put containers where those chickens can get them!! I have been gardening for 50 of my 57 years!! THANKS!!!
    Mike Bernardoni

  466. liz says

    Hey, I’d love any of them but if I had to make a choice I’d take the super organic salad seeds or the container gardening seeds (are they organic?) Anyhow, I’m loving your newsletters, site and facebook page. I’m learning quite a lot from you Mavis and you’ve got me really psyched for this growing season. We are tackling the making of a compost bin from pallets tomorrow. This way I can put it closer to my garden areas than where it is right now. Thanks for imparting all of this great information. I HOPE I WIN 😉

  467. Miss. Meow says

    I’m new to your blog and I find it super helpful. I am also new to gardening, I started growing cilantro last month just for kicks and found out I really REALLY love gardening and would love to try veggies next. So far I have just herbs; oregano, basil, cilantro, and chives. I would love to have the vegetable seed kit

  468. liz says

    I forgot to tell you what we plan on growing. It is my intention to make some raised beds and grow alot more greens this summer. I want to do some companion planting and the raised beds will give me more room to grow things. I have some new large containers to plant in as well. I’m going to put one right outside my kitchen door so I can grab herbs to cook with more easily then heading to the garden. Thanks

  469. Amanda King says

    I would love to win the Container Vegetable Seed Collection! We just started a garden on our balcony of our apartment! I’ve got tomatoes, peppers and strawberries just starting!

  470. Rev. T.D. McCauley says

    I think the container garden seeds would be best. Since I found this site while looking for pallet gardening tips, those would be the best way to go. My favorite thing to grow are tomatoes. I once grew a 2.5+ lb. pink oxheart tomato (one of many very large tomatoes on that plant) on a 9′ tall plant. It was an awesome growing season. And my garden is only 3.5′ x 3.5′ square.

  472. Jasie says

    The container garden set or any set looks great. I’m hoping to get my veggies to grow and not die on me this year!

  473. Natalie Ririe says

    I would love to win the fast food seed collection! I think it is because I am inpatient. My favorite thing to grow in the garden is tomatoes when they are big and amazing…I love your blog!

  474. Monica F. says

    I would love to have any, but I think the most useful for my family would be the container garden!

  475. Sarah B. says

    Container vegetable! I actually only grow flowers right now but I’d love to try my hand at vegetables!

  476. Marisa Horner says

    I have a small garden but would love these seeds and make it a bigger garden!

  477. Amy Savarese says

    I would like to win the organic salad seeds. I am a newbie, but love planting lettuce:)

  480. Leah says

    I’d live any if theses kits! I’m trying potatoes for the first time this year. They are just starting to peek out. Squeeee!

  481. pamela says

    I would totally love the container vegetables. Trying my hand at a few this year already but would love to add lots more!

  482. Karen604 says

    Just starting some of the early seeds today. Peas, beets lettuce and spinach are planted. I’d love o win the on trainer seed selection.

  483. Tali says

    I would love the:

    Container Vegetable Seed Collection

    I enjoy growing zucchini best.

  485. Sabrina Barton says

    They are all awesome. Since I have to pick, I pick Container Garden, but I’d be thrilled with any of the seeds. My favorite things to grow are French breakfast radishes and any kind of carrot, poppies and holly hocks. I can’t pick just one 🙂 Love your site.

  486. Linda says

    I would really enjoy planting the ‘Fast Food’ seed collection. I just put in a 65 foot by 3 foot raised bed garden and am planning on keeping it growing year round. My husband initiated a change in his eating after living on a lot of the unhealthy ‘fast food’ for many years before we married . We have incorporated more vegetables into our diet on a daily basis. I am thrilled to have my husband choose varieties of seeds to plant and trees we are planning on planting. I grow in containers and have planted vegetables among my landscape in the front of our house too. I just love growing things!

  487. Alice Whalley says

    Container garden would be wonderful. I have been container gardening for 3 years and have learned so much and grown. I had never gardened previously and didn’t realize the joy it brings.

  489. Melissa D says

    I would love to win the Fast Food Seed Collection. We are fairly new to gardening. We did have success with growing hot peppers last year, but we really want to branch out to other veggies. 🙂

  490. Marie Tom says

    I would love to win the Container Garden Collection. All the collections look pretty awesome!

  491. Mark Ferguson says

    Super Organic Salads Seed Collection sounds super yummy and would be my choice to win!!!

  492. Tracy J says

    I would love the fast food collection! Spinach is by far our favorite thing to grow, although it never survives the ride from our garden to our house! (my kids eat it all!)

  493. Emily says

    I would love to try the container seed collection. My favorite things to grow in my garden are wild kales and heirloom tomatoes!

  494. Monica W says

    We do a little container garden each year, so the container vegi seeds would be fantastic!

    Our favorite to plant each year is cherry tomatoes.

  495. Benjamin Harris says

    How about the container vegetable collection? I’m about ready to plant a variety of greens this week (northern New Mexico, USDA Zone 5 – in a good year). We’re doing squashes, pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers (including a first attempt at pepperoncini (sp.?), the Italian pepper), chamomile, lots and lots of basil (love it! – we’re almost out of pesto from last year), eggplant – all in raised beds. As for perennials, we’re focusing on plants that handle the harsh climate and that the gophers don’t bother, and reducing the number of genera we focus on: Artemisia (especially Powis Castle), yarrows, Russian sage, prairie sage, chamisa (rubber rabbitbrush), Gaillardia, and some others. In shade, Vinca major and Lamium (dead nettle) do well if watered. For shrubs, we have New Mexico privet, butterfly bush, three leaf sumac, mountain mahogany…there’s no point in trying anything that isn’t native. Love your blog! It’s great to know there are some parts of the country where stuff seems to WANT to grow!

  496. Tim says

    My wife shared your facebook page with me and I love your site, mostly your hints regarding gardening. We recently moved to the Gig Harbor and I haven’t had the time to create a garden space. We’re working on it but won’t likely have it completed before the planting season has past. I would like to win the Container Vegetable Seed Collection so my family can enjoy fresh vegetables this summer. I have seeds that I kept from some spectacular 2011 Amish tomatoes that thankfully have sprouted indoors this year and would love to compliment them with some other veggies. Thank you.

  497. Trina says

    Ohhh I would love the container veggies! This is my second year around– so although I have learned a lot am still very much a novice. So far my favorite thing to grow is lettuce- it has been kind to me and I love picking fresh leaves just minutes before I make a salad 🙂

  498. Jenny Wyman Rush says

    Container Vegetable Seed Collection looks Beautiful! We just moved up to the Sierra Mountains CA. I know it will be a challenge to garden up here at snowline but we are excited to start our first big garden this year!! I love your page on FB. Warmest Reg, Jenny Wyman Rush Thank you again!!

  499. Pete O'Neil says

    Fast Food please. I am starting a garden this year. I plan on growing carrots, tomatoes, Jalapenos to start with and some herbs.

  500. Carol says

    I’d like to win the container vegetable seed collection!!
    I’m new to gardening, just rented our first home and I am hoping to grow lots of healthy vegetables for our family of 4 to provide them fresh nutrients at home and save on groceries, :)HOPE I WIN!

  501. Janet Armour says

    CONTAINER GARDEN COLLECTION. . . . with the size of yards down here in the Phoenix area, that’s all I have room for. (I do miss my home in the Inland Northwest!) But, my heart is bursting to start a garden. AND we just signed the contract on our own home, freeing me to create my very own container garden!

    I am so very excited, I almost cannot stand it. I have bought two books on container vegetable gardening in order to feed my family healthy foods on a budget. And, I’m learning to bake bread, in my solar oven no less. Who wouldn’t be passionate about something like that 🙂

  502. Helen B says

    What a great give a way!! If I shoud win, the “Fast Food ” collection would suit my needs the best! :0)

  503. Jen says

    Tomato Bush Better Bush (24 Seeds)

    Moving soon and will have space for a garden finally 🙂 Need some seeds to get started.

  504. Chelsea says

    This is my second year container gardening. I was so excited to see all my carrots started sprouting this week. 🙂 I would love the fast food collection. I have been thinking about planting broccoli raab as its so expensive in stores. Thanks for being so awesome!

  505. Lisa says

    I would like the fast foods set still very cold on the farm in Maine but can see garlic peaking out

  506. Diane says

    Last year my new discovery was purple sprouting broccoli, so I”ll ask to be entered for the Fast Food collection. I’d love to try the broccoli raab. It’s too expensive at the grocery, which is the biggest hint of “what try next in the garden”!

  507. Alyssa says

    I would love the chance to grow out any of the collections! I just want it to be a non-Monsanto seed! Though I think that I liked the veggie one the best … the salad one is super great too!

  508. gloria says

    I would love the salad seed collection. My FIL plants a huge garden, so the basics are covered. We try to grow items that are unusual or expensive to purchase at the farmers market.

  509. NaConda N. Frank says

    I would love the Container Vegetable Collection! I haven’t had a garden in about 3 years due to where we were living, but I plan to start a small one this Fall with herbs & vegetables I cook with a lot. My mom & grandmother have beautiful Fall gardens each year that yields so much! Although I plan on starting a small garden this Fall, I have my fingers crossed because I fear I don’t have the “green thumb” that my mother & grandmother have 🙂

  510. Donna Smith says

    Id love the fast food selection. When my family is eating it, I’ll remind them that we are eating “fast food tonight”.

  511. Adam L. says

    Oh, I htink the Fast food collection would be the ticket for me. A favorite? No such thing, but I love that I can re-grow green onions from the “butt” end with the roots. We have green onions year-round!

  515. cindy cook says

    had cancer in 2006 ,son made me go all organic. would love to win. ty for the chance

  516. Kathy Petersen says

    I’d appreciate anything….I am doing a container garden this year. First time I have dug in the dirt in years. I recycled a ton of containers. Which as soon as my nice new dirt arrives Tuesday , I’ll be sending pics to Mavis for the inspiration.

    Fingers crossed that I have not lost my touch. Up north I could grow anything. But I have been transplanted to the deep south. (Georgia) Since my yard is SAND , I am doing a container garden, plus I rent. Soon as I see how things are growing, my next big step will be dehydrator & a canning supplies.

    One step at a time ~ and thanks for the inspiration…..

    Kat

  517. Susan Moore says

    Container Vegetable Seed Collection! I am growing kale and herbs in window boxes. I would love to try some other things!

  518. Heather says

    We’re very new to gardening but this year we’re trying strawberries and various veggies. Those poppies are pretty!

  520. Jennifer says

    Thanks so much for the giveaway!! I would love to try out the container collection:) I and lacking in space and I think that it would be just the ticket for me!

  521. Alissa Hogan says

    Container mix! I’m doing my very first garden this year and bought seeds before I learned about GMO vs. Heirloom. I’d love to try your seeds!

  522. Lauren Hurley says

    Any of the three of the seed collections would be exciting to win and try but I would say probably the container collection as I’m running out of space with my perrenials taking over! (love your site!)

  524. Erica McColeman says

    I would like to enter for the salad collection. My favorite thing to grow in the garden is snap peas. I love it when my kids just pick them straight from the garden and eat them.

  525. Ike's says

    Just came across this site today….absolutely in awe! Love it. If we had to choose, the container gardening pack would be our choice…not much space on our small lot, so we rock those terra cotta pots as best we can!

  526. Melody Rudenko says

    They all sound awesome. I think the organic salad seeds would be the best. Such a long growing season for greens in the PNW and so many places I could plant them. Window boxes, long pots on the porch, cover raised beds, and in the garden proper.

  527. BRB says

    I would have to go with Super Organic Salads Seed Collection since I think I am pretty much completely out of salad greens seeds!

  528. Mimi says

    I love growing cucumbers in my garden, for making all kinds of pickles! I would love the Super Organic Salads Seed Collection! I’ve never grown arugula or radishes but I think they would be an awesome addition to my salads!

  531. Stephanie says

    I really like to grow tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers, onions, and lettuce. The container set looks nice but the Super Organic Salads seed collection has some things that are new to me that would be fun to try!

  532. Tanya says

    Fast food seed collection sounds great. Favorite thing grown in past year is Swiss Chard – will grow through our mild winter in Georgia, and we harvest by cutting low to ground so that new leaves sprout out. Probably on cuttings 3 or 4 from our plants. And even our 5 and 7 yr old will eat these pretty colored greens!

  533. Holly says

    Organics! 🙂
    My favorite thing to grow is Spinach. It grows all year-round for me. I live in upstate NY, and we have cold, snowy winters, but I have raised beds and make a little hoop house for my greens every winter–they slow down but produce all winter long. The best spinach ever is winter-grown–crisp, thick, green and SO flavorful!

  534. Jessica says

    I would love either the container vegetable or fast foods collections. I haven’t gardened since I was a teenager, but would like to start gardening with my preschool aged son.

  535. Culley says

    I would love the fast food seedlings! I have not been able to find the broccoli raab from one of your recipes!! Need to grow it 🙂

  537. Jared Campbell says

    I would love to win the ‘Super Organic Salads Seed Collection’. My family loves salad!

  538. Anissa Telle says

    Wow, hard to choose. I guess the super organic salad collection but the fast food and container veggies sound tempting too. Putting in potatoes and snap peas tomorrow!

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