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Giveaway – Enter to Win a Baby Vegetables Seed Collection from Botanical Interests

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This Giveaway is Now Closed.

The Winner is: Susan S. who had this to say: “I love planting carrots! Why?… because my kids and their friends get such a kick out of pulling them up and chomping on them Bugs Bunny style. Most of the kids in the neighborhood have never gardened before, and they love holding a freshly plucked carrot with the long green tips on the end.”

A couple of years ago my friends and I were given a special behind the scenes tour of the Botanical Interests Seed Company in Broomfield, Colorado. It was really awesome to meet everyone who works behind the scenes and to see all the seeds and how they are packaged.

I have been using Botanical Interests seeds for about 5 years now and let me tell you Bob, I think they are pretty awesome and I’m super pumped to be offering this giveaway to one lucky Dig for Your Dinner reader.

If you are looking for seeds to plant in your garden this spring, you’ll totally want to enter this awesome Botanical Interests seed packet giveaway.

drying green beans for seed

What Do You Win? The Botanical Interests Baby Vegetables Seed Collection. These are vegetables that can be harvested young for tender salads and gourmet recipes.

What’s in the box:

HOW YOU WIN IT:

Life’s pretty complicated sometimes, so I like to keep things simple around here. You have FIVE ways to enter: 1 required and 4 bonus entries. That means you can leave a total of FIVE comments below for FIVE awesome chances to win.

1. *REQUIRED ENTRY*  What is your all time favorite vegetable to plant in your garden?  Leave a comment below letting me know your answer.

2. *BONUS ENTRY*  Do you like/friend/follow me yet? Pick one or all and like me/follow me/subscribe to me via one of these forms of social media: Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. Leave a comment below with the name of the site you followed, ie. “liked you on Facebook and Instagram.” Only 1 comment/entry regardless of if you follow me on all the sites. Which you totally should anyway. 😉

3. *BONUS ENTRY*  Start spreading the news. Share this giveaway with your peeps via Facebook, or Instagram! If you don’t do the social media thing, just send out an old fashioned email about this awesome giveaway. Leave a comment below letting me know how you shared it.

4. *BONUS ENTRY*  Head on over to my Facebook page and leave a comment on one of the posts or pictures there. Come back here and leave a comment below letting me know which post or picture you commented on.

5. *BONUS ENTRY*  Subscribe to my daily emailed newsletter. It’s an easy peasy way to make sure you don’t miss a thing. Plus, I’m way too busy gardening to spam you, so your email address is safe with me. Leave a comment below letting me know you subscribed.

THE FINE PRINT:

5 entries per person/ip address. If you cheat, you will totally be disqualified.

This giveaway is only available to US residents.

This giveaway ends Sunday, January 24th, 2016 at 6pm PST and the winners will be announced Monday, January 25th. You will be notified via email and have 48 hours to claim your prize. Prize will be forfeited within 48 hours.

Good Luck! I hope you win.

♥ Mavis

Comments

  1. Pumpkin , some day the really really big one
    But for now sugar pumpkin and some for Halloween

  2. Ooooo, you had to pick a hard question. I would say bush beans. They are yummy to eat fresh and canned!

  4. My all time favorite has to be green beans, because the will always grow despite our lousy weather.

  10. My favorite veggie to plant is (man this is so hard) carrots. There are so many varieties and easy to grow.

  15. Roma Tomatoes, they are my fav to plant. Sounds funny, but the whole plant smells “green” to me. I just love it!

  22. Green beans. Half runners with strings. 🙁 Extra work, but we think they can the best. I have ordered some seeds, and I am anxious/nervous to try starting my own seeds this year.

  23. My favorite favorite favorite vegetable to plant is patty pan squash (Sunburst variety). It’s so good! Kind of puts regular old zucchini to shame in stir fry.

  28. I planted black cherry tomatoes last year along with other varieties, but those were definitely my favorite. My girl’s loved the sugar snap peas.

  40. My favorite veggie are peas! so easy to grow but ‘some’ of them don’t make it to the house for dinner….the pods make it, but they seem to be empty. hmm. must have a ghost picking them 😉

  41. SO excited! I ordered them some seeds this week-end (through your website since your links are affiliate 🙂 ) and I didn’t get any of those!!

    For me it’s tomatoes!! We got SO many 2 years ago, it was so much fun!! Even my grand father who is the master of tomatoes was impressed about our plants!

  44. Beets are my all time favorite veg. Then asparagus and swiss chard and peas and…….. I love them all

  46. I subscribed to your newsletter! Super stoked as I didn’t realize you had this site. Right up my alley!

  50. My favorite thing to plant in my garden is Tomatoes. We would be lost without them. We can salsa, sauce, and ketchup from them every year. Saves lots of money!

  51. I love to plant lettuce. I don’t have the greenest of thumbs, but it always comes through for me!

  52. And followed you on Instagram! Nothing like great garden photos to get me excited for spring.

  60. My all time fav. is cherokee purple tomatoes! I am planting some of the seeds to day in my greenhouse. Thank you for all the great information that you put in your news letter.

  63. What is your all time favorite vegetable to plant in your garden?

    Ground Cherries and Parsnips, then there are tomatoes …

  64. Commented on Facebook that my chickens love swiss chard on you chickens and bright lights swiss charge post.

  67. What is your all time favorite vegetable to plant in your garden?

    My all time favorite vegetable to plant in the garden is cucumbers, because they grow up my trellis and my cats love them. They like to lay under the cool shade they provide and lay in the cool dirt after it’s been watered.

  68. My favorite would be tomato but since they are not a vegetable, I would say sugar snap pea, the kids love them.

  70. Beets! I love them cooked, pickled or raw in juices-PLUS we eat the beet greens so there is no waste. We eat the entire plant 🙂

  75. Hands down–tomatoes! Growing up (a long time ago) in Minnesota, we planted hundreds of plants and my sister and I sold them from a card table beside the road 🙂

  81. Cherokee Purple Tomatoes are my FAVORITE! I follow you on Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook. I posted a comment of your post about the grow lights.

  82. Spaghetti squash. Set it and forget it as they say. Also, one feeds my family of 2 for a week and they keep for a LONG time, usually till next spring.

  83. Hey Mavis, My favorite thing to grow is definitely sweet peas. They are super easy to grow and yield a large amount. Also they have such a variety to eat them….with or without the shell. 😀 p.s. I follow on IG.

  89. Lettuce is my favorite! It is the first veggie and the last to be harvested from my garden.
    Thanks!

  91. Garlic is my favorite for the moment! I love that it grows through the winter when not much else does, and it’s the first thing I ever grew a year’s supply of in one season.

  98. I love to plant herbs in my garden, if I had to pick one it would probably be thyme. I love the smell and use it so often.

  99. I do like you! I like you on Facebook, follow you on Pinterest, and subscribe to your news letter. Still trying to figure out Instagram.

  106. I’m a sucker for some tomatoes. There is just something that makes you feel so accomplished when you manage to grow and harvest bunches of tomatoes. Love both of your sites Mavis!

  122. Okay, it may be cheating since technically it’s a fruit, but my all time favorite things to grow are tomatoes!!! They are so pretty when ripe, taste 100 times better than store-bought, and there are so many different varieties and uses!

  123. Bush beans are my favorite. I always think I’ve planted too many, but someone we always manage to eat them all!

  139. Our favorite vegetable to plant has to be corn. We love it so much I freeze it to have all year. That is ALOT of corn.

  142. Zucchini is my favorite and almost full proof plant in my garden. I can make it healthy or add it to cookies or cake!

  145. I would have to say my favorite veggie to plant is cucumbers. I love trying new varieties every year, there are so many cool cucumbers out there lol

  155. Officially subscribed to your dig for your dinner newsletter! Another great reason to check my emails daily!

  157. Subscribed to the newsletter. I’m excited about the “all garden, all the time” theme for this website.

  159. Botanical Interests cube of butter yellow squash is the best. I still have some stored in the garage from the last harvest. Great vegetable!!!

  163. My husband’s favorite edible item to plant is potatoes. When a potato starts to grow eyes, he plants them randomly in the yard. I never know if, when, and where a potato is planted until stems spring up!

  166. Tomatoes, especially cherry tomatoes! I love being in the garden and grabbing some for a quick snack.

  191. I love to plant lettuce. It’s like magic little seeds that you plant in the ground. I always marvel that a little seed can become salad for my family. How cool is that for a suburban girl!!! Lol

  193. Favorite vegetable to grow: Cherry Tomatoes. My (then) 11 month old daughter loved to eat them off the vine!

    Liked the page on facebook and shared on my timeline!

  203. Different types of lettuce and zucchini When we moved to the desert a few years ago people thought I was crazy starting a garden. Now friends are starting their own gardens.

  206. That is a SUPER hard question… I feel most accomplished when my tomatoes grow, but my honeybees are super happy when my cucumber vines produce and produce and produce! And, I have not had much luck with pumpkins, but I always have about four that survive my gardening skills, and I have to say, I am way too proud when I place one by my door that I GREW!!!

  207. #1 – Carrots! So easy to grow and nothing beat a carrot pulled form the garden, rinsed with the hose 🙂

  212. Zucchini. I live at 7200 ft., so growing gets complicated without a greenhouse. Zucchini does well in this climate every year.

  235. I love to grow green beans, pole variety are my favorite. My kids grew up on my canned green beans and will only eat canned ones now as adults

  238. My husband will say lettuce because I cut it and it grows back so I can cut it again and again. I love home grown Tomatoes.

  239. Zucchini – so many things you can do with them – straight-up vegetable, zucchini pancakes, zucchini cake, sliced on pizza, etc. Yum.
    Thank you!

  246. Oh goodness, Green peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, peas, beans…. but I think our favorite is tomatoes!

    🙂
    Lea

  247. My favorite thing to plant in the spring is sugar snap peas!

    I shared your post on FB

    I liked you on FB and followed you on Pinterest

    I commented on the post about you going on vacation and everything was still alive. I put up a seedling starter pic

  248. I love to grow kohlrabi with kids. They enjoy seeing this unusual vegetable and eating it with ranch dip

  250. I subscribe by email both to your original blog which I have read for years and this new one, Dig for your Dinner. Love them both!

  251. My favorite to grow is tomatoes from seed. I have grown tomatoes for about 25 years now and I am always thrilled to start my seeds. The plants smell so good and the fruit are like nothing you’ve ever tasted in the stores. I love to grow
    tomatoes !!!! I am a subscriber to your site. Love it!!!! The thank you!

  252. My favorite this last year was bok choy, even though earwigs ate most of the first planting, and caterpillars ate most of the second. Such a nice addition to stir fry, and something I would not buy at the grocery store!

  260. I can’t enter. I am “told” that if I bring one more seed into this house I will have to find another place to live. LOL But Mavis, you are the best….thanks for all you do for all of us….keeping us on track and challenging us to keep up.

  267. I love planting sugar snap peas. I can never get them from garden to table without popping them in my mouth the minute they’re picked…. pod, peas, and all!

  273. I am a city girl who does not like the idea of playing in the dirt. My kids want a garden this spring and we are going to try different things. First pumpkin, because I hear it is really quite easy. The others are up to what I read from you. Good luck to us!

  274. My favorite item is Tomatoes, but starting to have nightshade issues due to health conditions so I may have to find a new favorite.
    I follow you on Facebook and Pinterest
    I share your Facebook and blog postings
    I subscribe to your newsletter

  275. Tomatoes. I love to walk buy and grab a handful of cherry tomatoes while I’m working in the yard.

  276. Pumpkins, aren’t they just the happiest things to grow. They have those big yellow flowers in early summer that just make me smile when I look out the window. Than I pile them up on the porch for Halloween, than I eat ’em.

  277. Tomatoes for sure are my favorite in the garden. Couldn’t pick just one though! And I follow you on Pinterest!

  279. They’re not really veg but I do so love to grow my own garlic and shallots. They make everything else taste better!

  282. We love to plant different varieties of tomatoes, but Julliett is our favorite small tomato. Thanks.

  286. My all time favorite vegetable to plant in my garden is Contender Beans. My mother grew those in her garden, and they are just beautiful. (My mother, incidentally, just died in December, and I am really going to miss talking to her about my garden. She was THE expert!)

  288. I commented on the Lentil Stew with Butternut Squash post. I had seen that earlier, but this time it was clear that I need to make that! Probably tomorrow! Thanks!

  298. Tomatoes, especially tiny varieties that I can feed my service dog, Tao, right off the plant 😀

  300. Cucumbers, they were my first true successful planting in my garden! Love both of your blogs!

  305. Oops forgot to say that the comment I made was about my new seed starting area. It had a picture as well.

  308. Garlic! I love it but have a terrible time growing it. Have only had one
    successful crop in all the years of gardening.

  317. Artichokes, they come back bigger every year and tou can let them go to flower and attrack hundreds of bees

  320. Cherry tomatoes. I always end up with way more than I can pick. I follow you on Pinterest.

  321. Being vegetarian, there isn’t a veggie I don’t love. But, I think my all time favorite are tomatoes. Who doesn’t LOVE tomatoes.

  327. Ooo that’s a hard one, but I would probably have to say peppers, mostly because I have the best luck with them;)

  329. Green beans … every year I think I plant enough to put up, but we eat them as fast as they grow!!

  334. I left a comment on Lucy helping dig your potatoes … my sweet dogs aren’t as selective as I’d like them to be!

  336. I just sent out a group email to my friends who are gardners and homesteaders in Vermont- to let them know about your new site. Thanks for being here.

  343. Definitely a hard question! Peas are probably the favorite- they are very productive, and my kids love to help pick them. I’ll probably end up planting a second row this year.

  351. My favorite plant was a potato. After a lot of straw and tender loving care when I went digging for my ‘treasure trove’ of potatoes I almost missed them. I had two golf ball sized taters. We spent quite a bit of time laughing over that; although, I am going to try again this year.

  353. I am a follower. I receive your emails. I wasn’t expecting so much in one email: recipes, coupons, what’s on sale right now, ideas for saving money (was expecting that), it is seriously impressive.

  357. I grew Thai Eggplant this year, which is so beautiful!

    I follow you on Facebook and Pinterest. 🙂

  358. Liked you on Facebook. I’m afraid I don’t do instagram and I can’t remember if I follow you on Pinterest. I know I pin many of your posts (that is how I came to this site in the first place) oh, well.

  359. Last comment from me. First this is a good way to see all the ways you reach out to the public. I rarely think of businesses on Facebook but it seems there are many.
    Second: the photo on which I commented was the chicken with chard. My chickens are often a hoot and you are helping me learn better how to keep them well fed and entertained. Thanks.

  360. Goodness, almost forgot the most important entry – Share! Went back to FaceBook and shared the give away to my friends. Thanks again.

  361. Roma tomatoes. Delicious flavor, they don’t need a lot of babying, great size to pack in a lunch and super hardy. I STILL have tomatoes rippening on my window sill and in Michigan when it is now 9 degrees outside that’s sayin’ something!

  365. My favorite veggie to grow are green beans. They’re my favorite vegetable and they are easy to grow.

  371. Beets (since tomatoes and strawberries don’t count 🙂 ).

    I’ve subscribed to your newsletters.

  373. My favorite vegetable is sweet peas. They are yummy picked in the morning, fresh off the vine. Some of them don’t make it to the kitchen! 😉

  378. That is an extreamly difficult question, I’ll have to go with tomatoes since you can’t buy good ones in stores.

    I liked your facebook page along with sharing your giveaway, I already subscribe to both emails and look forward to reading both. I also commented on your Laurel Hedge post.

  383. My fave veggie to plant is Armenian Cucumber. My dad planted these in our garden when I was a kid

  389. Technically, I am my dog on facebook (I so dislike social media– except your blog of course! I did comment on one of your posts and I did share this with my “followers”, Ruff!

  394. I commented on Lucy’s pic posted on 1/7, where you said she loves to dig potatoes. Did you put her on a diet? She looks leaner than before!

  396. My favorite vegetable to plant is tomatoes! Store bought can’t compare to homegrown. My favorite variety this year was Tumbling Tom – a cherry tomatoes that I grew as a hanging plant due to my limited gardening space. I had so many cherry tomatoes from one plant that I pickled and canned them. I also have to have Lemon Cucumbers!

  399. My favorite (right now!) is green beans. They are so easy to grow, taste fantastic and make great snacks.

    Thanks..:)
    ~Carla

  403. Peppers, any and all. We use peppers at every meal, although this year I’m looking for Habernero, Chipolte, and would love to find some Ghost peppers to spice things up. Wanting to add them to this year’s blend of chow chow.

  404. My favorite vegetable to grow is green beans. Lots of ’em! I just need more hands to keep up with the picking and canning!

  407. Sugar snap peas, I receive your news letter and Facebook. Love your Dig for your Dinner January book and look forward to February’s ego ok.

  408. Like being asked to choose your favorite child, but I would agree tomatoes especially sungold cherries.

  417. I think Zucchini is my favorite – It’s so versatile and easy to grow – it never fails. I can never get enough of it LOL!!

  421. Legumes 😉 I truly can’t decide between peas which signal SPRING and beans which signal SUMMER. I have a love affair with both and their climbing ways.

  424. Pole beans are my favorite. My kids cut their teeth on them. Looking forward to my grandkids chewing on green beans this summer.

  425. My favorite thing to plant is cucumbers. We love the small ones that we can just pick and eat!

  426. My all time favorite plant to garden is peas. They never make it in to the house- we stand in the garden and eat them out of the pod!

  427. I LOVE me some parsnips, because they are halfway between my two favorite veggies.. carrots and potatoes!
    I have been trying to get them to grow to more than 3in long for a couple years now… each year i plant earlier 🙂

  428. My favorite veggie to plant is carrots because my girls still get excited to pick them when they see what is beneath the surface…pure magic!

    Yes, I follow you on Faceboob and Instagram.
    Yes, I’ve spread the word on spcoal media.
    Yes, I’ve made a social media post.
    Yes, I subscribe too.

    Thanks!

  429. Wow! Tough question . . . there are so many!! My favorite would be Mache (corn salad). I like a veggie that tastes amazing and can survive extreme weather conditions (i.e. zone 7 winters). I also follow you on Pininterest.
    Thanks!

  430. All time favorite vegetable to grow, which is really a fruit, is tomato. We go crazy over them!

  432. My favorite seed to plant is cherokee purple tomatoes. They make the BEST tomato sandwiches!!!

  438. I LOVE garden-grown tomatoes, but I have yet to have any luck with them. So far out of things I can grow, my favorite vegetable is okra. I never had it until I moved to Texas, but it has quickly become a summer staple. I’m following you on Facebook, and I’ve spread the word! I’m actually hosting a seed swapping party this weekend (inspired by you), and I let everyone know (via Facebook) they can enter for some free seeds!

  441. Tomatoes are by far my favorite plants in the garden. You can use them when they are green or red and make so much with them.
    Liked – Dig for Your Dinner (already liked your One Hundred Dollars a Month FB page).
    Commented on the Slow Cooker Vegetarian Lentil Stew with Butternut Squash recipe.
    Also ‘shared’ the seeds giveaway.

  446. I love harvesting root vegetables like potatoes and parsnips and turnips. It might be lame but, really, carrots are probably my favorite! I use them in practically everything I cook!

    Also, I just followed you on Pinterest and, even though I read your blog multiple times a day, I have only just this instant subscribed for my email. 🙂

    Love your style & life choices! Thanks for sharing yourself with the big, wide world.

  448. it has to be tomatoes!!! I love trying new varieties and am also excited when I find a volunteer popping up. Sometimes the mystery fruit is the best!
    I follow you on e-mail, FB, Instagram

  451. I commented on the ‘starting lettuce from seed’ post from Dec. 15, 2015. My FB name is Jenny Young.

  456. Heirloom tomatoes, especially the black varieties. I already subscribe to your newsletter.

  457. Gosh! It is so difficult to pick my favorite thing to grow! If I must choose one item, it is tomatoes! There is nothing better than homegrown, heirloom tomatoes

  462. Favorite vegetable to plant (though I know it’s technically a fruit, yadda ya ya) has to be tomatoes. We did not have a great year with tomatoes last year (or really most of our garden) but even the few that we were able to pick were just magic to eat. Love fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes!

  466. Our favorite vegetable to grow is tomatoes. We eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner during their peak season. Yummy!

  475. I follow you on email, and facebook, I am also looking forward to planting and harvesting beans although I am hoping I have much better luck this year with them. I had trouble with fully developing. Would love to win these seeds. I am sharing this through facebook.

  482. Tough question!! I was going to say winter squash or tomatoes… but then there’s okra, and beans, and sweet potatoes, and cucumbers… Ok, ok, I know–you said one. We’ll go with tomatoes. 🙂

  484. I love planting carrots! Why?… because my kids and their friends get such a kick out of pulling them up and chomping on them Bugs Bunny style. Most of the kids in the neighborhood have never gardened before, and they love holding a freshly plucked carrot with the long green tips on the end.

  490. Swiss Chard – I love that it is cut and come again and grows throughout the year where I live.

  491. tomatoes. They are so versatile and all my kids will eat them. we have used them in your heirloom sauce, sundried them, eat them fresh, make salsa, you name it!

  493. I’d have to say it’s a real close tie between zucchini, tomatoes and potatoes. (The last two years we’ve been trying out your idea for the potato tower and have been liking the results!)

  498. I can usually keep a basil plant alive during the summer, but otherwise, I haven’t met a plant that I haven’t been able to kill. (But I do love eating my fruits and veggies–thanks, farmers!!)

  499. Today it is beans because my 4 year old daughter has been talking about eating beans all day today, she can not wait!

  504. My favorite vegetable to plant is radishes because I know they will grow and peas because they are so good.

  505. I always plant tomatoes and squash, but i can’t pick one favorite. I wish i could have more success with early peas like snow peas but we go from freezing weather to 90 degrees in about a week here in Texas. I love trying new things…when i grow up i want to be as successful in gardening as Mavis 😉

  506. My all time favorite vegetable to plant is Cherokee Purple tomato. They grow well here in Central Florida and taste delicious!

  510. Sugar Snap Peas are my favorite to plant- they are my favorite snack from the garden! I have a hard time getting them into the house and not in my belly 😉

  514. My favorite is Musquee de Province pumpkins (also known as Fairytale pumpkins)… they are beautiful, look like Cinderella carriages, and taste wonderful.

  516. There are so many things in the garden that we love, but sugar snap peas are probably the universal favorite.

  517. I liked you on Facebook and commented on the post about daffodils coming up. I’m already subscribed to your newsletter.

  518. Oh my goodness I love to grow tomatoes. . . and zucchini and pole beans. I could go on and on :-).

  522. I can’t chose a favorite – I love everything I’ve ever planted, well, maybe not the Swiss chard … but I still think that’s maybe because I didn’t cook it right. I love the first radishes in the spring (although I don’t like to eat them myself, but I do love growing them), I love all the different types of lettuce – so pretty! Beans, tomatoes (oh, tomatoes!), squash …

    I can’t choose.

  523. My favorite? That’s a tough one, but I’m going to have to go with the good ol’ tomato. Fresh, stewed, diced, sauced, mmmmm. So versatile!

  529. I love planting potatoes and carrots! I liked you on facebook and pinterest. Shared on facebook, and commented on the lettuce post

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