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Re: [GWL]: Gifts for Gardeners

I wrote a column a few years ago recommending Tracy DiSabato-Aust's 
"Well-Tended Perennial Garden," and book stores sold out within 5 minutes 
after opening.  That's understandable because not even Barnes & Noble 
stocks a lot of copies of any one book. A gift I recommended and gave has 
received a lot of attention, though.

I've been writing a weekly garden column for 8 years. Prior to that, I was 
one of three rotating columnists for the Boise daily newspaper. I asked one 
of the other columnists what his favorite garden tool was, and he said it 
was a Japanese farmers' knife, but they were hard to find.  I bought one by 
mail order for my husband, and he loved it. I hefted it and did not love 
it. It was clumsy in my hand.  A friend did a lot of supportive computer 
work for me, and I gave him garden tools-- a ss transplant shovel and ss 
spading fork from Lee Valley, and later I gave him a Japanese farmers 
knife.  (He would not accept pay)  The day I gave him the farmers' knife, 
he took it home and wore the black coating off before that first evening. 
He said he doesn't go out to garden now without it.  The area of town in 
which he lives is older, and he said you can't stick a trowel in the ground 
without fighting roots.  This knife just slices through the roots.  Now 
he's looking for one for his wife.  She's evidently tried it, and I've 
talked to a number of women who garden who are also crazy about that 
tool.  Margaret Lauterbach


>I'm sure many of you have written a column or article on 'Gifts for
>Gardeners' at one time or another. I'm interested in which gifts you
>suggested rec'd the most feedback?
>
>Carla Allen
>http://www.carlaallen.ca
>~An East Coast Gardener~

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