Thank you all for your entries and your great tomato recommendations. I hope those gave some of you some good ideas for your summer garden.

We have five winners of The New Sunset Western Garden Book :

• Bee Girl from Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Sara O. from Denver, Colorado
• Tracey from Fairbanks, Alaska
• Donna M. from Romona, California
• PeckyCaw from Portland, Oregon

 
If that’s you, please send your mailing address to us: [email protected].  We’ll forward your address to the publishers of the book, who will send you the book directly.

The winners were chosen at random–we asked a random number generator to choose 5 numbers, and applied those numbers to the comments in the order they were entered.

Also, I neglected to mention in my review of this book that Sunset has a handy online plant finder. Well worth checking out.

Congrats to our winners and we’ll do some more giveaways in the coming year!

There are still some spots available for our edible gardening class at the Huntington that starts this Saturday. In the course of the three consecutive Saturday sessions, we’ll build a compost pile, dissect soil test reports, make a seed starting mix and discuss incorporating fruit trees and native plants into your edible landscape among many other topics. The class will be held at the Huntington’s spectacular Ranch. Here’s the details:

March 10, 17 & 24 (Saturdays)
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Learn everything you need to know to start your own organic vegetable garden in this hands-on series led by Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne of Root Simple. Sessions will take place entirely outdoors on The Huntington’s Ranch site and will cover all the basics of planning, planting, composting, soil science, pest control, and harvesting.
Members: $120. Non Members: $135.
Registration: 626-405-2128