Help us celebrate the first day of spring (it's tomorrow—mark your calendar) and with it, the return of fresh salads and herb-infused cocktails and vegetables that really taste like vegetables because they came straight from your garden. To kick off the season, we're sponsoring a series of giveaway contests featuring prizes from Williams-Sonoma Agrarian's new spring catalog.
To kick off a month of contests, this week we'll be giving away a Galvanized Trug made of corrosion-resistant metal and a set of five Oak Garden Markers, two edible gardening essentials for a potager.
Here's how to enter:
- Sign up for the Gardenista Daily Newsletter. (If you're already a newsletter subscriber, you can enter by registering with Disqus in the comments section below and uploading a photo of yourself or your garden to use as a thumbnail.)
- In the comments section below, tell us how you would use the trug in your garden; all comments are due by 8 pm, Sunday, March 24.
- The Gardenista editors will choose one winner at random and make an announcement on Wednesday, March 27.
Above: Made of galvanized sheet metal, the durable Galvanized Trug offers a handy way to carry clippings of herbs and lettuces; $29.95 from Agrarian.
Above: A set of five Oak Garden Markers makes it easy to keep track of your vegetable, fruit, and herb seedlings; $12.95 at Agrarian.
Above: We could get lost, trugs in hand, in this idyllic edible garden in the UK. To recreate a similar planting scheme, visit Steal This Look: Kitchen Garden at Walnuts Farm. Image via Walnuts Farm.
Above: A California kitchen garden by landscape designer Art Luna. Glean some of Luna's edible gardening tips in The Landscape Designer Is In: Creating and Maintaining a Thriving Kitchen Garden.
If you're looking to stock up your arsenal for warm weather gardening, visit our Tools Section for ideas and recommendations.