Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life

Awarded Second Place—Nonfiction Books for Adults—Humor by the Woman's Press Club of Indiana, 2019 Communications Contest

“Professionally dirty clothes,” “The MulchMobile,” “The Gardener’s Handshake,” “Thanksgiving Conversation Starters for Gardeners,” and  “Going Steady with a Grower” are just a few of the delightful subjects covered in Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life.

Read it to discover if you have an eccentric gardener in your neighborhood or to see if, gasp, you are the eccentric gardener in your neighborhood.

The sequel to the popular essay book, Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, which taught us about gardening math, distance, time, and other important fundamentals, Homegrown and Handpicked is a journey through the seasons, with just as many laugh-out-loud, hey-that’s-me stories as the first book.

Read to remember why you love gardening, and keep returning to your garden again and again, despite the bugs, weeds, and marauding garden fairies running off with your tools.

“A wonderful follow up to Carol Michel's first book of gardening humor! Filled with vignettes, gardening tips, letters, advice, and more; this little collection is pure fun. Just as with here first collection, this book inspires the reader to get out there and start gardening, right this second! It's cute and inspiring; and reading it at this time of year (spring) makes me want to do even more in my yard. I can't wait to get my hand on the third book in this trilogy, if anything like the first two it's going to be amazing :)”  - Erin Cataldi, Librarian

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Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life

Awarded Second Place—Nonfiction Books for Adults—Humor by the Woman's Press Club of Indiana, 2019 Communications Contest

“Professionally dirty clothes,” “The MulchMobile,” “The Gardener’s Handshake,” “Thanksgiving Conversation Starters for Gardeners,” and  “Going Steady with a Grower” are just a few of the delightful subjects covered in Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life.

Read it to discover if you have an eccentric gardener in your neighborhood or to see if, gasp, you are the eccentric gardener in your neighborhood.

The sequel to the popular essay book, Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, which taught us about gardening math, distance, time, and other important fundamentals, Homegrown and Handpicked is a journey through the seasons, with just as many laugh-out-loud, hey-that’s-me stories as the first book.

Read to remember why you love gardening, and keep returning to your garden again and again, despite the bugs, weeds, and marauding garden fairies running off with your tools.

“A wonderful follow up to Carol Michel's first book of gardening humor! Filled with vignettes, gardening tips, letters, advice, and more; this little collection is pure fun. Just as with here first collection, this book inspires the reader to get out there and start gardening, right this second! It's cute and inspiring; and reading it at this time of year (spring) makes me want to do even more in my yard. I can't wait to get my hand on the third book in this trilogy, if anything like the first two it's going to be amazing :)”  - Erin Cataldi, Librarian

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Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life

by Carol J. Michel
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Awarded Second Place—Nonfiction Books for Adults—Humor by the Woman's Press Club of Indiana, 2019 Communications Contest

“Professionally dirty clothes,” “The MulchMobile,” “The Gardener’s Handshake,” “Thanksgiving Conversation Starters for Gardeners,” and  “Going Steady with a Grower” are just a few of the delightful subjects covered in Homegrown and Handpicked: A Year in a Gardening Life.

Read it to discover if you have an eccentric gardener in your neighborhood or to see if, gasp, you are the eccentric gardener in your neighborhood.

The sequel to the popular essay book, Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life, which taught us about gardening math, distance, time, and other important fundamentals, Homegrown and Handpicked is a journey through the seasons, with just as many laugh-out-loud, hey-that’s-me stories as the first book.

Read to remember why you love gardening, and keep returning to your garden again and again, despite the bugs, weeds, and marauding garden fairies running off with your tools.

“A wonderful follow up to Carol Michel's first book of gardening humor! Filled with vignettes, gardening tips, letters, advice, and more; this little collection is pure fun. Just as with here first collection, this book inspires the reader to get out there and start gardening, right this second! It's cute and inspiring; and reading it at this time of year (spring) makes me want to do even more in my yard. I can't wait to get my hand on the third book in this trilogy, if anything like the first two it's going to be amazing :)”  - Erin Cataldi, Librarian


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780998697963
Publisher: Gardenangelist Books
Publication date: 03/16/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 156
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Carol Michel is a lifelong gardener and resident of Indiana with a bachelor's degree in horticulture production and an associate degree in computer technology, both from Purdue University. She spent over three decades working in healthcare IT while making a life for herself in her garden. Now Carol calls herself a gardenangelist and spends most of her time in her garden, sharing all things gardening with anyone who will listen. She is an avid collector of old gardening books and claims to have the largest hoe collection in the world. Carol writes about her old books, hoes, and many other gardening-related topics for Indiana Gardening magazine and her award-winning garden blog, www.maydreamsgardens.com. She is also the author of Potted and Pruned: Living a Gardening Life (Gardenangelist Books, 2017)

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Happy New Year, Gardeners

CHAPTER 2: The Joy of Gardening in Your Second Half-Century

CHAPTER 3: Once Upon a Garden

CHAPTER 4: Dear Louise Shelton

CHAPTER 5: Here Comes the MulchMobile

CHAPTER 6: Airing Our Dirty Laundry

CHAPTER 7: Games Gardeners Play

CHAPTER 8: Going Steady in the Spring with Pansies and Violas

CHAPTER 9: Five Places to Hide Your Plant Purchases

CHAPTER 10: The Tale of Pinky and Pretty

CHAPTER 11: On the Good Ship Rain Again

CHAPTER 12: Learn to Love Your Insects

CHAPTER 13: Garage Sales and Gardeners

CHAPTER 14: A Gardener’s Guide to Cleaning a House

CHAPTER 15: Club Hort

CHAPTER 16: Tomato Growing Lessons from My Dad

CHAPTER 17: An Explosion of Zucchini

CHAPTER 18: A Letter from Summer Camp

CHAPTER 19: Travel Tips for Gardeners

CHAPTER 20: Reading the Newspaper

CHAPTER 21: Is Your Neighbor an Eccentric Gardener?

CHAPTER 22: Are You Your Neighborhood’s Eccentric Gardener?

CHAPTER 23: Guide to Certified Garden Fairy Habitats

CHAPTER 24: The Mystery of Weed Control

CHAPTER 25: The Mystery of Missing Gardening Tools

CHAPTER 26: Recipe for an Enchanting Garden

CHAPTER 27: The Last Act Begins

CHAPTER 28: If You Don’t Love Your Garden in the Fall

CHAPTER 29: My Dear Fall Garden

CHAPTER 30: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

CHAPTER 31: Thanksgiving Day Dinner Conversation Starters for Gardeners

CHAPTER 32: Turning Black Friday into Garden Friday

CHAPTER 33: Five Year-Round Daily Gardening Habits

CHAPTER 34: A Letter to Mother Nature about Winter Teasing

CHAPTER 35: Hoe, Hoe, Hoe

CHAPTER 36: Two Rabbits Meet at the End of the Year

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