A fellow pumpkin grower from Iowa is planning a fishing trip in Thunder Bay and has an issue with fish bait and is wondering if anyone can give him a hand. He's looking for a contact in Thunder Bay if anyone is interested in helping out. Thanks Zeke His name is Dan Carlson email: pumpkinmandan@gmail.com text: 563-242-0749

Final stats are out. Congrats to team #1 Phil Hunt, Art Johnston and Noah DeVisser. They ended up on top Check the 2022PB tab. 13 people out of 24 grew a new PB! I hope everybody had fun and we can do it again next year. Thanks Zeke

Contest ends at noon on October 17th so get those big ones in. Pretty close between 1st and 2nd only .1 lbs New stats went out today

Is there any place I can get the weigh off results?

Latest stats have been emailed. Let me know if you didn't get it.

New stats are out

If you got good seeds from someone, (and if you are a GVGO member I'm sure you did) it doesn't matter how big your tomato is you can keep seeds and the genetics will be there. I was talking to a friend today and he was using the fermentation method to save seeds. That works okay but there are easier methods. I use the trisodium phosphate....what!

Just emailed the latest. let me know if you didn't get them

I know it's tough for a new grower and even worse for an accomplished grower to weigh a tomato that isn't that big but this competition will probably decided by 1/2 lb. Last year there was a lot of people that didn't weigh a tomato and most of them were accomplished growers that hadn't grown tomatoes before. I know of 2 growers that had 2+ lb tomatoes and didn't weigh them because they thought they'd get bigger and didn't weigh anything. Bottom line is weigh everything. If I don't win but we weighed 6 tomatoes...hey we did our best. If we only weighed 4 tomatoes that sucks. I'm sure the top growers on here will agree and hopefully respond.

Had a little problem with my computer and lost some addresses and I'll need them if you want updates emailed to you. The ones I still need are Dave Locke, Jeff Craig and Brian Green. mdemars@kent.net Thanks Zeke

Entry is now closed and new teams have been drawn. good luck to everyone

Sign up time if you want to join the team tomato contest this year. Same as last year, random draw putting 3 people on each team. Growers will be ranked on there PB tomato and then divided into groups A, B & C. Each team will have a top (A) grower B and C grower. No entry fee but you must be a GVGO member to join this contest. GVGO will supply prizes of $30 cash each for first place and free memberships to each of the second place finishers. You can enter here or email me at mdemars@kent.net

Got mine today. Great pack. Best variety in a long time and big seeds.

Results are all in and contest is closed. Only 4 teams weighed 6 tomatoes and they are the top 4. 57 tomatoes weighed 210 lbs. that's an average of 3.69 lbs. per tomato. 5 tomatoes weighed 6+ lbs. Congrats to our winners, Team #3 came in 1st and are the winners of GVGO hats and shirts. Doug Court, Bob MacKenzie and Dan Clement Team #7 placed 2nd Todd Kline, Craig Balkwill and Jeff Warner all win GVGO memberships for 2021. Thanks to everybody that participated and I hope you had fun. Planning on doing this again next year. Watch for the winter grow contest coming soon!

Good luck to everybody going to Woodbridge tomorrow

Congrats to all the growers at Port Elgin today. Huge results especially the pumpkins, tomatoes and beets. Two real close to the Canadian records for beets and another one for pumpkins!

So far 19 tomatoes have been weighed for a total of 65 lbs. 4 teams haven't weighed one yet. If you want the stats emailed to you and don't get them this time around it's because I don't have your email.