Dave Davisson's Garden

Hello!

Thought that I'd try and post a picture of the garden and give you folks a peek at what's going on in the backyard. Both of my competition tomatoes have fruit, but they are both a bit behind my eating tomatoes, lol. Hope you folks enjoy the pictures (if I do this right).

Dave

Louise's Old German

How am I going to harvest my tomatoes? Do I have to climb the pine tree? This tomato plant is bigger than me. The question is "How big will the tomatoes be?"

Louise C

Larry's plants are looking good!

I have beef steak (2), better boy (2), yellow pear and sweet 100 tomato plants. I got them at Mid-City nursery, Walmart, and Home Depot. I am also testing out 3 potting soils. I have Kellogs in one container, supersoil in another and a Walmart brand in the 3rd container. I hope something comes out of this.

Larry

Welcome, Hank

Hank, a retired Coast Guard like me, is from Alameda. He has joined the competition!

My six competition tomato plants all look promising. My Mortgage Lifter is the healthiest and will probably give me the biggest fruit. Whether it will win is another story. Win or lose, it will be consumed. Oh how I love home grown tomatoes.

I will post a photo of my garden soon.

Zack

2006 Participants

To date we have the following people competing this year:

Larry
Zack
Louise B
Louise C
Carole
Carmel
Dave D
Cyp
Rudy

It is not too late to sign up.

Make sure you check out the links. You may find some good hints there on how to grow the big ones.

Zack

Louise C's Garden

I thought I would enter a photo of my garden. Maybe there is a prize for the most beautiful garden. I like to have flowers to look at while waiting for the tomatoes!

Louise C

Tomatoes, Tomatoes at Leneve

Hello!

Hope I'm doing this right, just a test run but the blog site looks good! I'll look forward to checking out what happening with other peoples tomatos. My two competition tomatos are: Old German, and Black Pineapple, hope they do the job for me. The rest of my tomatos are for eating:).

Dave

Previous Winners

2003 - Karl Lentz, Mortgage Lifter, 34.2 oz, 17-3/8" girth
2004- Dave Davisson, Beefmaster Hybrid, 16.1 oz, 13-5/8" girth
2005- Dave Davisson, Aussie Beefmaster, 40.4 oz, 18-3/4" girth

Contest Rules

Loose Rules (Original draft by Karl Lentz and have been modified many times)---------------------Here are the not so well thought out rules for the tomato growing contest.
1. The contestants as a whole will serve as the judges and will need a majority decision if a judgment needs to be rendered.
2. Rules can be changed by majority decision of the judges.
3. Tomatoes submitted for consideration must be grown by you on your own vines.
4. Greatest individual weight will be the deciding factor, not **circumference or size, in determining the winner.
5. No "doctoring" allowed. This means no injecting or implanting materials to falsely increase the weight or size of the tomato.
6. Digital photos are the suggested and encouraged method of substantiating the progress of your tomatoes. Submit all photos to Zack for publication.
7. Tomatoes become candidates for judging when you submit them in person, to the majority group for official weigh in.
8. Official scale will be provided by anyone who has the most accurate scale. **Circumference will be used if competing tomatoes have such similar weight that the scale can not establish the winner.
9. Weigh-in will be on Saturdays at the Millennium Sports Club tennis courts, at around 11:30 AM after Saturday High Intensity Tennis. The officials conducting the weigh-in are normally the members of this tennis group. Please notify the competition director at least 3 days in advance if you are bringing a tomato for official weigh in.