Michal Bulla's Blog at GardenTenders.com

Gardentenders.com and Me

Michal Bulla — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:50:24 GMT

As many of you already know, Creative Hands with all three websites(LumberJocks.com, GardenTenders.com and HomeRefurbers.com ) joined Escalate media in January.

Unfortunately for me, Escalate Media has it’s own team of talented people who are able to take care of GardenTenders and HomeRefurbers, so it’s time for me to say goodbye.

I’m glad I could’ve been a part of GT and I would like to thank you all who helped us to make this site so special.

Since I’m not a gardener I will not post lot of new blog entries or projects, but I will check GT from time to time. And who knows, maybe once I will be addicted on the gardening as you are :).

Fox Gloves Challenge #2: And the winners are ...

Michal Bulla — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:19:51 GMT

First I would like to thank all members who participate in this Fox Gloves Challenge. As Debbie mentioned already, 16 entries is our best participation in challenges and I hope we will reach this number in the next challenge as well.

Now it’s time for a random draw(I used random.org)

Here is the winner of fox gloves from Lee Valley

Gone_Tropical

Here are two winners of our stylish GT T-shirt

Jroot
Harold and Pam

Congratulations everyone!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Michal Bulla — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:35:01 GMT

This is our Christmas Tree:

Merry Christmas to all GardenTenders!

Fox Gloves Challenge #1: Announcement

Michal Bulla — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:15:26 GMT

Post a blog entry about how you would benefit from owning a pair (factual or humorous) and your name will go into a draw for a free pair!

The “Fox Gloves”, available at LeeValley.com are a treasure for any gardener.

(You can read the review of the gloves here).

Thanks to Lee Valley for supporting our gardening community and donating the gloves.

PRIZES

One random winner will receive fox gloves from Lee Valley
Two random winners will get our stylish GT T-shirt

HOW TO ENTER

SUBMIT your challenge entry as a blog about how you would benefit from owning a pair (factual or humorous) and add the tag “Challenge04” (of course you may add any additional tags too):
You may submit multiple entries but only one entry will be entered to the random draw.
The entry deadline is January 31th.
Winners will be announced online at GardenTenders.com on February 1st.

Good luck!

You can see all entries here.

Create&Share Challenge - Preserving the Produce #2: And The Winners Are

Michal Bulla — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:48:14 GMT

9 interesting entries have been posted in our “Preserving the produce” challenge and it’s time for a random draw.

Here are the winners:

Iris43 - starter kit for preserving from Bernardin
Weedwacker - GT T-shirt
Sharad - GT T-shirt

Congratulations and thanks to all members!

View all entries

Create&Share Challenge - Preserving the Produce #1: Announcement

Michal Bulla — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:08:22 GMT

Our new Create & Share Challenges are opportunities to share ideas, tips, and techniques. We invite you to participate, even if it is to post a “don’t try this because look what happened when I did it” tip.

Preserving the Produce
Do you have a favourite tip or recipe for preserving garden produce (whether fruit, veggie, or flower)? Post your “preserving wisdom’ in our GT Blogs, tagged as “CS1”.

PRIZES

One random winner in Canada will receive a starter kit for preserving from Bernardin
Two random winners will get our stylish GT T-shirt

RULES

Post a blog entry, with photos, about “preserving the produce”
Tag the blog as “CS1”

Get your entry in by Thursday September 30th and the winners will be announced on October 1st. Are you up for the challenge?

HOW TO ENTER

SUBMIT your challenge entry as a blog and add the tag “CS1” (of course you may add any additional tags too):
You can submit only one entry for this challenge.
Describe your process in a blog and add at least one photo of your unique finished product. Feel free to post your finished product in the GT projects.
The entry deadline is September 30th.
Winners will be announced online at GardenTenders.com on October 1st.

View all entries

New Forum Category - Garden Tours & Art

Michal Bulla — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:06:08 GMT

Few weeks ago I received a message from Jroot if we should have Garden Tours & Art forum category. Since there are some forum topics already that fit in this category, I decided to finally creat the category and I moved 2 topics in it. If you find any related topics, please let me know and I will move them to our new Garden Tours & Art forum.

Enjoy!

Container Gardening Challenge #4: Random Draw

Michal Bulla — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:28:20 GMT

It has been three months ago when we’ve announced Container Gardening Chalenge and in the end we all can admire 25 beautiful projects. I would like to thank all contestant who have taken the challenge and posted pictures of their containers.

Here are the random winners of our cool GardenTenders T-shirts:

Sharad
Bon
GMman

Congrats to the winners!

view all 25 entries

Container Gardening Challenge #3: Only 4 days left to enter...

Michal Bulla — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:58:11 GMT

This is just a friendly reminder that the entry deadline is July 31, so there are just 4 days left to submit your entry.

There are 23 projects posted already. Don’t miss the deadline and the opportunity to win our GT T-shirt

Back from vacation - Egypt

Michal Bulla — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:01:31 GMT

Hi, I would like to post some photos from our last vacation in Egypt(North Africa). It was about 37degrees on the coast and 47degrees in the midland. Everything is irrigated from Nile – there were created multiple canals in the 1500 b.c.

Enjoy!

Tutankhamun

Red Sea – Giftun Island

Me after snorkeling

Pyramid of Cheops

Pyramid of Khufu

Nice plant

On the way to the beach

Temple in Luxor

Our Hotel

Creating flagon from Onyx

Me and native near local Masjid