Two weeks ago I posed a simple question: Why do you garden? I offered up the chance to win a free pair of gloves in exchange for your answers. And answer you did.

One hundred twenty one of you flooded my inbox with the most amazing, touching, funny, heartfelt, wonderful reasons to go outside and create gardens. Reading your replies was such a pleasure because it reminded me of all the reasons why I’ve chosen to make gardening such a big part of my life. If I could give all of you a hug, I would.

I feel slightly selfish, because I got so much out of my own contest, but I am happy to announce my three winners: Julie (comment #38) whose list of reasons is hard to argue with; Marguerite (comment 59), whose answer made me look at her garden, which is just a few blocks from mine, in a whole new light; and Alexandra (comment 67) who also appreciates the mystery behind what we grow.

Choosing just three winners proved to be really hard and the very nice people at Ethel Gloves agreed. So they are offering everyone a discount on gloves! All you have to do is go to their website and type in the discount code DigginFood10 and they will give you 10% off a pair of gloves from now until July 31.

Thanks again for participating and stay tuned. I’ve definitely got a few more contests up my sleeve.

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