November Article for the Cameron Chronicle

 

Hello Friends,

I want to share my article that I wrote for the November issue of the Cameron Chronicle, "The Little Paper With Personality."

In my November article I share Christmas Ideas for the Gardener.

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Christmas Ideas for the Gardener

By Carla TePaske of Cameron, WI ~ The Little Garden That Could

The Christmas season is just a calendar page away. If you have a gardener in your life, here are a few fun Christmas gift ideas.

Flower bulbs make great Christmas gifts for friends and family and will lighten up dreary winter days with their colorful blooms and lovely scents. Choose amaryllis bulbs for striking flowers and hyacinths or narcissi for wonderful fragrance.

Books make great gifts for the gardener as well. Floret Farm's
Cut Flower Garden by Erin Benzakein is a fantastic gift for your flower loving gardener.

For the vegetable gardener you can not go wrong with The Old Farmer's Almanac Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook by Old Farmer’s Almanac.

For your die-hard gardener, The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year, No Matter Where You Live by Niki Jabbour. Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious produce. Drawing on insights gained from years of growing vegetables in Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year. Learn how to select the best varieties for each season, the art of succession planting, and how to build inexpensive structures to protect your crops from the elements. No matter where you live, you’ll soon enjoy a thriving vegetable garden year-round.

A fun garden book for children, We Are the Gardeners by Joanna Gaines. After reading, children will learn:

Trying something new isn't always easy, but the hardest work often yields the greatest reward. The basic steps and process of starting a garden. The importance of patience and how it is possible to learn from your mistakes.

If you have someone special in your life that used to garden, but no longer can, a perfect gift would be a flower subscription. The Little Garden That Could provides this special service. A flower subscription from The Little Garden That Could is a bouquet of fresh-cut locally grown flowers. The delivery area is a 30 mile radius from Cameron, Wisconsin.

As you prepare for the holidays, do not forget to harvest some of your garden to create festive wreaths or arrangements. Use seed heads, rose hips, berries, hydrangeas and anything else you can forage.