Grow Great Grub Book Giveaway Winners

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Winners of my new book Grow Great Grub have been selected using a random # generator and they are:

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    Paula, who spent her, “…childhood years on a working farm, and didn’t appreciate it until I went away to college. Now I’m becoming passionate (obsessed) with where my food comes from, so I’m planning on starting my garden this year.

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And even though I said only two winners, I threw in a third because there were so may entries and I couldn’t help myself.

    Beth, who says she is inspired by her first harvest from her first vegetable garden, grown last year. “Meager as it is, it was really exciting to have food we had grown ourselves, and seeing it now just gets me excited for how much more we can try to do this coming season.

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Thanks everyone for inspiring us by telling us what inspires you.

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Sinningia iarae

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I showed a photo of this plant when the leaves are fully emerged in the post about Erika’s unusual house plants.

This is what it looks like when the tuber is just beginning to come out of dormancy. At this stage the plant brings to mind a flattened potato crossed with an African violet that has exceptionally soft and velvety leaves.

Here’s a photo of a flower that had just fallen from the larger plant:

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If you’d like to learn more, I’ve found this page to be very helpful. It includes photos of other Sinningias in their native habitat in Brazil, which goes a long way to explaining the kind of growing conditions it prefers.

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