Giant Onion Winners & Potato Prizes

Dear Gardeners,

Last Sunday the Big Diggers had a Giant Onion Contest, and the Little Diggers harvested their potatoes from the great potato tower.

Prizes were given for the biggest onions and for the most accurate kilogram weight guessing for how many potatoes may be harvested from one tower. Have a look at these colourful rainy day pictures:


Note: To see full size slide show, double click on the above small size show, and then choose FULL SCREEN in upper left when you arrive at the web-album online.

Giant Onion results:
Guy took first place with his 4 1/2 lb. onion (!) and said his secret was to hold onto the onion's humidity by plucking it from the muck only minutes before the contest (no beautification factor, but lots of internal moisture).
To save it from too much rain, it wore a bucket hat for the final week before harvest.

Second place went to Guy's 4 1/4lb. onion, so evidently there's terrificly good onion muck on the island's fashionable south end.
The great north enders, the Gillespie family placed third with their 3 lb. 11oz. giant onion.

The potato guessers among the Little Diggers won prizes that related to potatoes.
The chips (first prize) disappeared before being captured on film.
Happy harvest and thank you everyone for fun, onion poems, cookies, coffee and watching the kids seriously loving the digging.
Best,

Jen

Marg adds:
Thanks to all who braved the drizzle last Sunday to watch the giant onion weigh off in the community garden. Congratulations to Guy who took this year's title of "Onion Master" with a 4 1/2 lb. monster(the size of a soccer ball!). Guy (most certainly with Jodie's help) also took second place with a slightly smaller 4 1/4 lb. onion. The Gillespies took third place with a respectable 3lb. 11 1/2
oz. onion.
A special thank you to our Scottish judge, John Sinclair, who took the trouble to pass some tips for onion cultivation. Jim has a few extra copies of his "hot" tips and would be glad to pass them on if you missed the judging. We will do this again mext year. Now is the time to begin prepping your onion bed. Seed is sown on Christmas Day.

There will be a regular garden meeting this SATURDAY, September 18 (not Sunday).
We'll empty the BIG Digger's potato tower and see if we beat the Little Diggers' potato harvest of 24.9 kg. The Little Diggers meet at 10:30 on SATURDAY (not Sunday)and they will be planting a tree in the park. All are welcome.