Despite this summer’s cool, rainy weather, Harvard gardens are yielding vegetables worthy of blue ribbons at any county fair. This week two gardeners decided to get in the Garden Game.
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| Oak Hill Road resident Eric Broadbent won in the cucumber category, with a specimen that was 20½ inches long. |
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This week’s winner for the biggest head of garlic (9¼ inches in circumference) is Warren Ave. resident Joe D’Eramo, whose porcelain hardneck garlic was grown in the community garden. |
Get in the Garden Game!
Do you have what it takes to be a gardener extraordinaire: A perfect tomato? A killer zucchini? If you’ve got what it takes, you can enter it in the Harvard Press weekly garden contest, the Garden Game. Eight categories of vegetables will be judged according to overall appearance as well as size.
Categories and their corresponding measurement criteria are:
- Beets (biggest circumference)
- Broccoli (largest diameter)
- Cabbage (biggest circumference)
- Carrot (longest)
- Cucumber (longest, and biggest circumference)
- Eggplant (biggest circumference)
- Garlic (biggest circumference)
- Onion (biggest circumference)
- Pumpkin (biggest circumference)
- Tomato (biggest circumference)
- Zucchini (longest, and biggest circumference
Rules
Entries must be brought to the Harvard Press office, on the third floor of the General Store, on Mondays by noon. A staff member will measure the entry and photograph it. Winners for the week will be selected and featured in the Garden Game column. The contest ends at the first sign of frost.
Winners get bragging rights (until next year’s contest) and photos of their winning entries in the paper.
Good luck!