March 26th, 2012
Another excellent early spring weekend. Saturday was rainy but Sunday was great around here. Not quite as warm as it’s been, but I’m OK with that. After a week of highs in the 70s, it’s good to get back to feeling like spring again. I thought maybe we missed it and we jumped right to summer.
Yesterday, I was able to get a lot done—turning the soil in some raised beds, weeding, dividing and moving perennials—but I feel like the best work I got done was the imagining. Gardening puts me into a certain kind of mediation. I’m not always aware that it’s happening, and after a few minutes I’ll realize that I’m just leaning on my shovel, looking around, lost in thought. (My wife calls this Spacing Out.) These meditative garden space outs are simply a creative lateral drift that leaves me with good ideas.
Speaking of preparing the soil in spring, now is a good time to mention that this week, we’ll be giving away this cool little tiller/cultivator from Sun Joe:
Tiller Joe TJ600E
This medium-sized, no-bend, lightweight electric tiller features a seven inch cultivating depth and four steel blade tines. TJ600E cultivates a 14 inch wide path in one pass thanks to a substantial 6.5 amp motor. Made for an average area, this two-handle tiller retails for $159.99.
All you have to do to enter is go here to register: http://www.organicgardening.com/sun-joe-sweepstakes
One lucky winner will win this tiller from Sun Joe. A winner will be selected randomly on Monday April 2.
* No purchase necessary to enter or win.
* A purchase will not improve your chances of winning.
* You are not a winner yet.
* Void where prohibited.
* Must be over 18 to enter, and legal resident of 50 United States or DC and Canada (excluding residents of the Province of QUEBEC)
* Sweepstakes begins at 12:01 a.m. ET March 26, 2012 and ends 11:59 p.m. ET March 30, 2012 with the final drawing on April 3, 2012
* Entries must be received by 11:59 pm (ET) on March 30, 2012
* Click here for official rules.
* Sun Joe, 86 Executive Ave. Edison, NJ 08817 and Rodale Inc., 400 South 10th Street, Emmaus, PA 18048-0099 are the sponsors of this sweepstakes.
Tags: garden beds, giveaway, tiller
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Comments
with 4 kids and my husband overseas quite frequently, this would certianly make gardening much easier up here in VT!!!
This would be terrific. Thanks for the opportunity!
I could really use a tiller
Gardening puts me in the same meditative state…what I think is 15 minutes turns out to be an hour or more!
Having to put in brand-new garden beds this year at a new house means this tiller would soooooo come in handy. Thanks for the giveaway!
My garden dreams always exceed my ability to prepare the space. Perhaps this will fix that!
Sadly, my garden was too wet yesterday for me to play. I also space out in my garden quite often.
OMG… This would be awsome, building my first greenhouse in US and making a outside planting area too..
Thanks for this sweepstakes opportunity! I have wanted a small tiller for years but cannot give up the extra money to buy one.
Would be a great help for our community garden to help with amending the soil! Keeping my fingers crossed:)
I have pulled out almost as much of my hair as I have weeds! Their our of control! I could really use a tiller!
Lovely little machine would be a blessing in my garden as my arthritis gets more bothersome.
We have half finished the weeding, my garden is getting there slowly. Thanks for the opportunity in letting me enter this great giveaway, I would love to win this prize.
It would be great not to have to ask my neighbor to either borrow his tiller or use his tiller to make my garden.
could really use that tiller fixing my garden
I loaned my ancient tiller to a friend and he returned it BROKEN! Would love to win this one!
Would love to have my own tiller to start my garden off right!
My tiller just conked out on me, this would help me tremendously!
I’m going through a divorce & he has most of the tools — with an acre to keep up this would be a great blessing . Thank you for the chance to win .
Love the looks of this tiller! I could so use it in my spring garden!
Pick me , so I can landscape my yard with a good star with tiller Joe
Good luck to all!!! (fingers crossed)
This is such a neat tiller and a 14″ cutting swath would be perfect. We have a large tiller and it jerks me around too much..and as I have 11 cardiac stents…have to be careful…love gardening and this would also work in my flower beds.
Just about ready to have him rebuild the carb on our WICKED OLD front tine tiller
The one you are giving away is MUCH NICER lol
que les puedo decir….. tengo jardín y huerta, todo lo hago a pulmón .seria una bendición en mi vida tener semejante ayudante. espero tenerlo en mi casa y prometo promocionarlo ja ja ja . saludos
Tiller died and can’t get it fixed. Really could use.
All my raised beds would be at about 2ft (so I could just sit on the edge to weed, harvest, etc) if I could figure out a feasible way to do that. Since I haven’t done so yet, this would be such a great help!
All I have is a hoe and a rake, I could use something like this.
MY HUSBAND AND I COULD USE THIS WE DO ALOT OF GARDENING IN SPRING AND SUMMER TIME
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