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Googledly-eyes trombone cobra won the blue in the "Most Unusual-Shaped Vegetable." Special thanks to April, Horticultural Competition director, for kindly allowing us to promote our garden and Plant-A-Row for the Hungry.
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First of our ribbons I saw . . . special because these tiny cucamelons are maybe our best and easiest permaculture. Planted them once six years and they always reseed. Go cucamelons! Winner of "Most Unusual Hispanic Vegetable"
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Our small but smooth and pretty uniform in size won for "Best Organic Sweet Potatoes." That's quite an accomplishment!!!
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Winner is a tall, thick totem-like sculpture that looks like an island god. Second place went to a huge "bunch of bananas."
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"Other Winter Squash" category (other than the named squash categories such as butternut. There's our beautiful trombone squash.
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And the winner is a rare heirloom Jarrahdale squash from Australia. Never seen at the Fair before.
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Our persimmons won the red in the Asian variety. They are huge! But not ripe and perfect like the smaller ones.
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Woohoo! We have a first for the Fair! Evidently no one has ever entered a pawpaw in the Fair before! We didn't win a ribbon for "Rarest fruit" (cranberries did) but we are definitely the talk of the Horticulture Competitions.
