Sugarloaf Crafts Festival: Free Tickets!
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Gardeners love free plants.
And I am guessing gardeners love free tickets, too.
Garden Variety has three pairs of tickets to next weekend's Sugarloaf Crafts Festival at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium (valued at $16 a pair), and we'd be glad to give them to three randomly selected Garden Variety fans who post a comment today.
(Be sure to include your e-mail so I can contact you for a mailing address. Don't worry, I won't share it with anyone else.)
Sugarloaf is famous for its eclectic collection of one-of-a-kind crafts, but there is also live entertainment and plenty of food. It makes for a good kind of family fun. Some of the master craftsmen will also be on hand to demonstrate their skills.
And some of the art at Sugarloaf has particular appeal to gardeners. Pictured above is the Kidera Bell, made by Woodbine resident Ed Kidera from the parts of old cars, trucks and farm equipment, and a nature-inspired wind chime by New York artist Bernard Scheffel.
The festival runs Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information, call 800-210-9900 or visit sugarloafcrafts.com
Comments
I would love to attend the Sugarloaf event. I do not usually attend these types of events because of the cost though.
Posted by: NotableM | April 21, 2009 5:01 PM
I'm still trying to figure out where I will put my garden this year. My previous attempts have been unsuccessful due to heavy tree foliage around our property and/or the deer using my garden as a self-serve grocery store. My only success in recent years has been potted vegetables on the deck. I'm planning to try again in the "wild" of our back yard with a container style small area with chicken wire fencing to keep out the critters. Maybe the online garden planners will be helpful. Will let you know of my progress.
Dennis, you can try raised beds or deep planters made of wood. They seem to discourage smaller creaters...Deer, well, my friend Ron just shoots them...Susan
Posted by: Dennis | April 21, 2009 5:23 PM
Do you have a book to recommend to the person who is an amateur? Step by step gardening. i read your blog every day. I love flowers; and have grown vegetables and herbs in an amateurish way (dig dirt, plant, water). I love hearing what you do, the pictures you show and the upcoming events. Haven't been able to make one yet but I hope to soon. Thanks for starting this blog.
Two all-around gardening books I would recommend are "The Well-Tended Perennial Garden" by Tracey DiSabato-Aust and "The Garden Primer" by Barbara Damrosch. For vegetables I like "Rodale's Successful Organic Gardening: Vegetables" and the "Companion Planting" book from the same series. I used these books a lot when I first started vegetable gardening. Really, any of the Rodale books on gardening are good references. I'm glad to hear you like flowers because they are my favorites. For information, but mostly inspiration, I like "Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers," "Color for Adventurous Gardeners" also by Lloyd and "Cottage Gardens" by Philip Edinger. I'm pretty sure you can find most if not all of these books at the library. Happy gardening! -- Joannah
Posted by: baltimorean | April 22, 2009 10:32 PM