Homegrown and Handpicked

"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.