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| The Clark sisters with their giant zucchinis. (Photo by Lisa Aciukewicz) |
Summer may be winding down, but Harvard gardeners are still in the game. The Clark sisters found zucchinis lurking under the leaves in their Bolton Road garden.
In this photo, Julia Clark (right), 5, holds a 5.7-pound winner 19¼ inches in length and 14 inches in circumference. Her sister, Phoebe, 8, shows off her pick, which weighed in at 2.7 pounds and measured 16½ inches long and 12 inches in circumference.
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!