Superstore Garden Centres Giveaway
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Spring showers are tapering off and some sweet summer sunshine is about to help our gardens grow in Metro Vancouver. To assist green thumbs across Canada, Real Canadian Superstore Garden Centres are offering plants and colourful blooms sourced from Canadian growers, including DeVry Greenhouses in Chilliwack and Bylands Nurseries in Kelowna.
Other products include flowering baskets, edible plants, ornamental grasses, designer planters and more, which are all available in local nofrills, Extra Foods, and Real Canadian Superstore locations in the Lower Mainland.
Real Canadian Superstore Garden Centres locations also host Canada’s first and only national recycling program for gardeners. Receive a $5 coupon per 25 pots returned (valid until July 4, 2013, coupons can be found at cash registers of participating Garden Centres).
To get your garden growing, Real Canadian Superstore has offered up a prize pack valued at $100 for a Miss604 reader. This includes a $50 gift card, a Guy Wolff white clay pot (pictured above), and an assortment of beautiful new plants.
Here’s how you can enter to win this gardening prize pack:
- Leave a comment here naming your favourite thing to grow in your garden (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Friday, June 7, 2013.
Update The winner is @ChristieBuono!
194 Comments — Comments Are Closed
i love gerber daisies!
i love growing kale! so easy and so good for you!
That pot is so ‘now’ – the vintage look is fabulous.
I love to grow huge sunflowers, pumpkins, corn, tomatoes, blueberries and local flowers in my garden
My favourite thing to grow in the garden is yellow tomatoes
Looking at my yard, you would think that I have a fondness for dandelions and weeds but I would rather have daisies!
I love growing basil.
Carrots and garlic
I just started gardening last year and started small. Fave thing is lettuce! Except the slugs seem to love them too 🙁
I love growing herbs, especially different varieties of basil
Rosemary
My garlic chives are a must grow every year! I have them in planters on my balcony & tucked in my community garden beside the celery I’m trying for the first tme!
Lettuce.
Herbs!
I love growing herbs! This year I’m trying 3 new (to me) varieties for tomatoes.
snapdragons
I like tomatoes
Tomatoes and fresh basil!
peas
I love to grow vegetables, especially tomatoes and carrots
That is a really nice pot. I like growing strawberries even though they can be finicky and easy to grow Marigolds.
Tomatoes!
strawberries
Favourite thing to grow are strawberries!
I enjoy growing a variety of herbs. If I am lucky enough to win, the prizes will all go to my mum, who’s an amazing gardener and lives really close to a Superstore!
Tomatoes!
Basil
Roses
Celery
If I had a garden, my favorite thing to grow would be blueberries!
I’ve got some curly leaf Kale coming – so exciting!!
Already anticipating things growing in my garden.
cherry tomatoes on the patio
Lillies are my favs!!
I love to grow watercress in my garden!
I like to grow onions!
Basil!
While I love to grow fresh vegetables in my garden, especially tomatoes, by far my favourite plant is the jasmine tree because it becomes quite fragrant in late spring/early summer and you can’t help but take a deep breath of it everytime you pass by.
I love growing tulips! Red, yellow, pink, so pretty when they bloom <3
snapdragons and sweet peas
Lilacs!
Love growing Lavendar, basil, and veggies!
Cherry tomatoes, yellow,orange and red.
I love hostas
I always have luck with impatiens
I love my hostas and herbs.
Herbs! Basil is the best
I love growing cucumbers.
Herbs – thyme, rosemary & basil
Basil, rosemary and tomatos…mostly because they’re the only things I don’t kill 🙂
kale
tomatoes because they taste so much better than store bought
herbs (@radicalradhika)
blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries!
Basil! So good and useful!
I love growing rosemary and lavender.
Herbs.. I like a lot of green ferns.. try to stay away from the smelly flowers as my daughter is allergic to bees and wasps..
I love growing tulips, my favourite flower.
I would love to plant some Peonies Flowers.
Sweet peas!
Chives
Sweet peas! They survive everything, require little maintenance and make my backyard smell nice.
I love to grow roses
Tweeted
https://twitter.com/raindrpsunshine/status/340616245957251072
I love to grow impatiens…they don’t mind shade and they just continue to bloom without needing any maintenance!
Grape Tomatoes are my favourite thing to grow in the garden
I love gardening it gives peace
blueberries
my wife loves blueberries
I love growing blue flowers…..hydrangeas, lobelia, but I can’t seem to grow blue morning glory.
I love to grow hostas and tomatoes
Clustered bell flowers
Kale!
Tomatoes!
I love to grow impatience in my front window flower boxes and veggies in the back yard garden
Herbs!
geraniums
herbs
The kids and I love growing peas- so easy.
Basil, but so tempermental.
Peas for stir frys
Roses 🙂
Anything edible, especially herbs
I have a pot of herbs on my front steps- herbs for cooking is my favorite
My fave thing to grow are heirloom tomatoes!
vegetables!
Onions, they always get used and they are fun to watch grow.
Cherry tomatoes.
I love to grow potatoes!!
Cherry tomatoes and carrots!
A garden is not complete without tomatoes
tweeted
https://twitter.com/Prairiebelle/status/341056355253235715
Strawberries are a fave here, thanks for the chance to win!
Anything edible – herbs, veges!
Blueberries, Strawberries and celery!
tomatoes and carrots
love to grow cherry tomatoes
red geraniums
Tweeted https://twitter.com/Jemrah1/status/341216677171716096
herbs are my favorite!
Cherry tomatoes!
I love planting all different colours of azaleas in my garden!
Definitely herbs
Tomatoes,cucumbers and green peppers are easy to grow and make a wonderful nightly greek salad with dinner.
roses!
My lavender is flourishing this year!
I love growing a variety of Hostas since much of my garden is shaded so they thrive.
Love Love LOVE to grow tomatoes! nothing tastes so good!
oregano
My Cala Lillies. Sooo pretty every year.
Lavender — I love the scent.
Iris’s are my thing, I have many different colours from dwarf to tall. I have lots of other flowering plants and shrubs but the one thing I have the largest variety of is my iris.
I like to grow herbs
heirloom tomatoes !
Lavender
My favorite thing to grow in my garden is Geraniums – so many varieties!
My herbs are my fave….green onions, cilantro and even the tomato’s make the cut!!!
I love growing roses!
herbs!!
We love Tulips & Daff’s! They always give us hope that Spring is on the way:)
I love growing herbs – so nice to be able to just use them when cooking!
basil
Love to grow cherry tomatoes – right from the planter to my mouth!
Basil and other herbs
its time to get dirty in the sun. Gardening is so much fun
Herbs for the kitchen
I love to grow Portulaca flowers in my garden because they are so hardy and COLOURFUL!
Tomatoes and lettuce! Fresh salads all summer!
Peas in a pod! Love love love growing them, a little tricky but soooo worth it 🙂
Tomatoes and lettuce. Easy and cheap to maintain
I have rhubarb planted and it’s a personal favourite!
https://twitter.com/vintagebased/status/341912490952753152
My favourite thing to grow in the garden – herbs.
I love to grow strawberries
my favorite thing to grow is tomatoes in the garden
Tomatoes — or any vegetable I then don’t need to buy from the grocery store!
We only have some herbs growing so this would be perfect!!
i love tulips!
Herbs, because my apartment doesn’t have a balcony.
Strawberries and raspberries – it’s so nice to have them fresh in the morning!
Strawberries!
I like growing sweet peas.
Anything that will not die on me!
I agree with Tracy’s comment (2nd in your comment list) about liking Kale. I like to make Kale Chips (Truffle Oil is the key ingredient), and I would buy the plants and make so many kale chips they would be coming out of my yin yang.
Luv growing my berries!!!!
Tomatoes!
I love growing strawberries and raspberries! <3
Herbs!
Tomatoes are the easiest to grow. They thrive in my garden.
I love to grow all types of lettuce – as long as the slugs don’t get them first!
Would love to win this for my husband…He takes such pride in his garden!
PS He loves his roses!
My favourite thing to grow is fresh herbs. They are so easy to grow and add such spark to everything fresh in summer cooking. Love that my Rosemary is now a “bush” and lasts all year round. Can’t beat walking outside a clipping fresh herbs!
strawberries
Herbs for the kitchen!
Mini roses
Tomatoes!
Basil, parsley and rosemary are my favorite things to grow for my kitchen. I also love to grow new wave petunias and geraniums to make my deck beautiful all summer.
I like to grow Sweet Peas!
@frugalwoman
I love to grow strawberries and peoneys
I like to grow herbs.
Cherry tomatoes!
Love growing sweet peas!
snow peas
tomatoes
https://twitter.com/leanne_mac/status/342505901120438272
peas & tomatoes
Tomatoes and cilantro
I love to grow veggies mixed in with my flower and herb plants. They look pretty – and are functional too!
I love growing zucchini to make zucchini and pineapple bread, zucchini chocolate cake and baked or grilled zucchini sticks.
Rasberries!
Tomatoes
For me it is veggies (tomatoes, lettuce) and herbs (basil & rosemary, parsley) that are my favourite and must grown items in my garden!
lots of different plants!
Herbs – mint, basil, sage, rosemary and thyme….
I love to grow beets.
https://twitter.com/fossie55/status/342832965484675076
I like to grow Strawberries
I love growing rhubard! Big and bushy and can be shared with so many people!!
Strawberries 🙂
I dont have a garden yet… just an orchid letting my room prettier. But back when I used to have a yard, I loved having mint in the garden! Put some pineapple and mint on the blender and try it, it’s so refreshing! Better than those things they sell in boxes and call juice!
I love bleeding heart plants; so pretty!
Thanks for the chance to win; if I do, I could rescue my garden from my dog!
potatoes
My favorite plant this year on my West End balcony is a small lavender tree…it was my big purchase for the season, but I got it for an incredible deal at one of the Kits grocery/plant stores. It was steal at $9.95! They are selling around town for $29.95. Am trying to grow a combo of flowers and edibles.
My favourite is raspberries but we have a huge garden this year with all kinds of fruits, veggies and flowers.
Angel’s Trumpets!
Ferns and hostas. They grow well at my shady house.
I love tomatoes and strawberries yumm
I tweeted too https://twitter.com/roswello/status/342914441832194048
Any sort of herb! Nothing like using fresh vs store bought or dried when cooking.
Tomatoes
carrots
Adventurous when it comes to gardening. Last year we had a little patch where we grew corn – big enough for one person to enter – just like in “Field Of Dreams”. This year we decided to primarily have watermelons – good to eat and fun to carve ..
eva mitton-urban
kale!
I love to grow pear tree in my home as it got beautiful, snowy white flowers and sweet fruits.