Garden Gifts

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by Kristy Yang

My husband and I both enjoy working in our gardens. We have several flower gardens as well as a huge vegetable garden. We find that each spring we plant way too much so we end up having more vegetables than the two of us need. None of my sisters have vegetable gardens. We decided that garden gifts would be a great idea for Christmas. My husband’s side of the family all have gardens so they did not need or want additional vegetables, but we thought we could still go with the garden gifts theme for them and get them things for use in their gardens.

We made extra jars of dilled pickles, stewed tomatoes and pickled green beans to give as garden gifts. Our neighbor had an abundance of raspberries this year and told us to pick as many as we wanted. We made jars of raspberry jam and also raspberry syrup. We dehydrated apples off of our apple tree and also made apple pie in a jar. This is a recipe in which you can apples with sugar and cinnamon. All you have to do is dump it in a pie shell and bake it to have homemade apple pie. I found a garden supply shop that sells wooden crates. I bought one for each of my sisters. I then used wood shreds as a liner and placed the canned goods in it. I had taken a course in calligraphy several years ago so I wrote garden gifts on each crate.

Bit of History

Among the many gifts I showered on Martin, I was careful not to include talent. How easy it would have been to make him an artist, a writer; how hard not to let him be one, while bestowing on him the keen sensitivity that one generally associates with the creative creature; how cruel to prevent him from finding in art—not an “escape” (which is only a cleaner cell on a quieter floor)You were born into a different world that will present you with different gifts and challenges. A new vision of manhood will be called for that does not tie so closely into the more aggressive and competitive residues of our male character. You will need to search out new ways of expressing strength, showing mastery, and exhibiting courage—ways that do not depend upon confronting the world before you as an adversary.

—Kent Nerburn (20th century)

For my husband’s siblings we went to one of our favorite stores in the Mall of America that specializes in gifts for people that are difficult to buy for. They have high quality specialty items including gardening tools. We bought each of them a gardening cart. It is made of molded plastic and is on wheels. It is designs so you can sit on it and wheel yourself along a row of vegetables as you are planting, weeding and harvesting. There are slots for tools and a basket to place seeds or harvested vegetables. We thought these were great garden gifts for helping to make gardening easier. It cuts down on stooping as well as crawling on your hands and knees. It also keeps your tools with you so that it is easier to stay organized.

Along with the garden gifts for both sides of the family I also made several pans of my homemade caramels. The homemade caramels have been a tradition for several years. I make them and my husband cuts them. We then spend several evenings wrapping each piece individually. I still think homemade treats make the best gifts.

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