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Hamilton Nj

hey everyone hear is the rules for the tomato contest this year basicly same as last year,lol,

1- all tomatos weighed in to contest must be posted in your diary!!!
2- all tomatos weighed in to contest must have pictures with tape measure in plain view, girth and weight must be visible in picture when on scale!!!!

3- all tomatos weighed in to contest must be 1 stem only ,no multistem tomatos accepted!!! (fused blossoms are okay as long as there joined together!!)

4- only 1 tomato per entrant!! u can weigh as many as u like but only your biggest will be able to go towards prizes!!!

5- all tomatos weighed in for contest must be posted in tomato forum,im not responsable for finding tomatos in your diarys,if u have a weigh inn u can email it to me , i will be checking forum every week ,so please post your entries it is up to u!!! pizzapete@hotmail.com

thats about it trying to keep it simple and nice!!!

all entrants are allowed to win 1 prize,so if u win first u cant win sec,third and so on !!!!!

ive talked to scott,chris,and dale ,they all put up some seeds for prizes and some gift certificuts to gianttomatoseeds.com ,also i have some of my seeds i purchased in a auction ill put up for prizes!!!

we will be doing 5 laces this year,there are 7.33 hunts,7.18 harps, and gift certificuts to gianttomatoseeds.com for prizes and maybe some timm seeds too,still working on details and ill let evreyone know what seeds u get for places 1-5 in a few weeks!!!

hope i covered it all,posative comments and suggestions are welcome,lets try to have some fun and grow some monsters!!!

email me with any questions or ideas !!! thanks everyone pizzapete

p.s. last year we had alot of really nice maters weighed in so i hope we do the same this year right now we have about 40 people in contest it will close around march ,or when we hit 100 people afer that ill need help with entries,lol, anyone seen treetop?????

1/28/2012 9:47:10 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

I said I'd donate ribbons

#3, I had a few mega that split their main stem as they grew but you could see that it was a split, and when dissected they were one fruit. As long as it was originally a single stem?

1/29/2012 12:36:53 AM

Oswego,ny

do you enter the contest as you weigh the tomatoes, or ahead of time?
sound like fun....

1/29/2012 8:26:49 AM

Hamilton Nj

okay great deb we can also do that too,maybe we can have ribbions for first 3 places ,along with seeds,steve,the sigh inn sheet is a few posts down im gonna repost hear as soon as i get the list out it was to big to copt and paste,lol thanks deb!! pizza

1/29/2012 2:24:16 PM

Hamilton Nj

yes deb as long as it was one stem ,splits are okay ,and if theres an issue ,i post a majority vote for everyone to view,so far we bein lucky we have a good group of people hear!!!! pizza

1/29/2012 2:26:39 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

If you're doing 5 places I will do 5 ribbons.

We just need a logo or something for the button that goes in the middle of the ribbon heads.

1/29/2012 5:25:41 PM

Massachusetts

pizza, i think the logo for the ribbons should be a pizza!!! reason#1 you are running the contest #2 with out maters there would be no (good) pizza out there! reason#3 i'm out of reasons!!! scott...............

1/29/2012 6:18:39 PM

Cameron

I would offer a few 7.33 mater seeds as a prize if you want. We don't have many left, but we can spare 3 or 4 for prize.

Jane & Phil

1/30/2012 12:12:03 PM

Hamilton Nj

thanks phil and jane, i got enough seeds for prizes,and a few gift certificuts ,and some ribbons we are working on too,just got to figure out the prize order,lol thanks again peter

1/30/2012 7:00:32 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

You figure out the amounts, I'll do five ribbons. I think we got it, Pete.

1/30/2012 7:50:02 PM

Hamilton Nj

okay cool i got enough seeds ,might only be a couple or one of each,lol but between ribbions and gift certificuts we are all good!!! thanks deb!!! im going nuts looking at tomato pics,lol for button!!

1/31/2012 12:18:41 AM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

I'm gonna see if I can catch the muse in the next couple of days and draw up something too. If you look at tomato pictures... make sure it's your own OR one that you can have permission to use. Let's take it to email for a bit, pete, and see if there's something to work up that we can submit for a vote. :)

1/31/2012 3:30:57 AM

bliss,n.y.- heart of Wyoming County

pete-
please include me Bill P

2/2/2012 11:29:51 AM

Hamilton Nj

no problem!!

2/2/2012 4:01:59 PM

President - GPC

Im in ...Yeah!

2/2/2012 4:32:23 PM

Alabama

I'm in too.

2/3/2012 1:56:02 AM

East Carbon, Utah

Here's the structure of awards for gift certificates from gianttomatoseeds.com which Pete and I agreed upon -

1st place - $35
2nd place - $25
3rd place - $15

PLUS

$10 gift certificate for anyone else in this contest who grows a tomato to at least 3.0 lbs.

Certificates are good for anything in stock.

2/3/2012 6:12:41 AM

Massachusetts

now thats a deal!! great job guys!!! , scott..........

2/3/2012 4:21:12 PM

valparaiso, in

Very nice of you SEAMSFASTER.

2/3/2012 10:16:01 PM

Joliet, IL

Great work all!!! I can't wait for the new season!!!

2/4/2012 9:28:56 AM

South East

first plants are up

2/4/2012 4:30:12 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Thank you Seamfaster! Me, I'm trying not to staple my fingers together... and will be starting stuff next weekend. Already put flats together and need to rig lights and warmpads.

2/5/2012 4:47:09 AM

Hamilton Nj

im trying to wait but its killing me!!!! pizza

2/5/2012 10:41:34 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Pizza, start a couple of eaters! That'll keep you from going the last short trip around the bend! And start your french marigolds (or nemagone special variety) to plant out with your maters!

2/6/2012 12:25:22 AM

Hamilton Nj

i got my ghost peppers started and im satrting my orange cherys to keep me sanity,lol, thanks deb!!! pizza

2/6/2012 10:00:17 PM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

YW Pete. I also got some 'black cherry bombs' I got off eBay and going to start. All I know is the fellow lit the oil on fire off one he was holding in his hand... ought to be intense peppers!

2/7/2012 2:59:24 AM