It's great to see some enthusiasm about this idea. Hold on for a bit. I am working on a plan for judging the entries that should work for all of us. I like the idea of a get together, but we all live so far apart and it would cost too much for travel.Regional gatherings may be a possibility, though.

Regional Gatherings are awesome. As an emapmle, I started playing online golf against people from all over the world. We got to know each other and after a few years we decided to meet to...play golf in real life, what else?" I can NOT tell you how much fun that was....we didn't sleep for a couple of days just talking and talking. My point is to meet and put a face behind the names would be awesome.......just as long as it wasn't during gardening season....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I hope it's during garden season,otherwise we won't be showing up with tomato's! Just joking around hammer!!!

I would be happy to help judge, David. It will be interesting to see what you folks come up with.... I would love to hear the stories behind each one too

I suggest we set up prize of some sort to present to the winner.

Bring this up next spring when I have got my fencing moved so I can grow tomatoes unabated by Walnut trees, deer or hopefully Drought! I'm all about quantity.. I have about 20 Roma tomatoes that I'm planning on covering so they can stay on the vine as long as possible to get through our cold snap. But Happy Gardening to all.. My biggest tomato all season was a Brandywine that started setting on in late September, sadly the poor tomato got nipped by a darn deer so it rotted before it turned ripe enough to eat.. But if I get my garden moved.. I may be in...

Thanks pea, you are more than welcome to judge. We need 2 more and it's a go. Pharmer phil gave me permission to use his method. I will explain it better later. Basically, there is a chart that we all use. It's a piece of computer paper with 2 charts on it. You fold it on the line and take a pic of your entry from the side and from the top. Biggest one wins using a combined score. I will scan my chart and show you. Here's my entry on the chart
We can't go by weight because, how can I say this delicately, people cheat So, there won't be any cheating,it's just for fun, bragging rights and pics and fun, did I say that?. I am open to your ideas about prizes. Maybe we can hit up a couple companies for donations in return for mentioning their generosity on the forums. I vote for 1st, 2nd and third places. We just had one of these contests on phil's site and it would have been a little better to award more prizes IMHO. Don't get me wrong, we had fun.The thing about a contest like this is that some southern gardeners will have an entry before us northerners even transplant our starts. So, if you have a big tomato and enter it in July, you may be sweating bullets until October waiting on the rest of us to see if you got beat out. Any tomato variety is accepted. The more variety, the more fun.

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lisaann, You know what you can do with your Big Beef.

My word!

Is that allowed here, they are hybrids! No self seeding!

Snicker snicker. You know I'll
beat your mator every time!

Here is a sampling of what you are up against: Nice uniform perfect specimens, the only kind I dare to grow! HasHaHaHa

This is a great idea! Maybe someone can post which varieties would be best for a competition like this, from what I gather, Big Beef, cherokee purple so far are good ones.
I grew "Amana Orange" this season (looks a bit like Dave's picture above) and some of them were gigantic. I may do those again so I can enter this competition!

Great idea

Hi Muddy feet!

I have not touched base with you in a while!

TALK, DAVE DON'T MIND AND I'M INTERESTED!

Hi Lisa ann

We can always count on you to make us feel at home here!
I've not been on OG in a while...doing alot of research on homeschooling, getting books, teaching my son the alphabet (it is so much fun, I had no idea it would be such a cool thing to do! He is only 3 and so bright... I love it.)

Garden is still hanging on, we have not had a freeze here yet (35 tonight) I covered my chard, kale and lettuce anyway in my super duper hoop house that we made. I'm still getting peppers, eggplant, a few cherry tomatoes...garlic is in, about 4 inches (elephant garlic is not up yet)...I am happy with my garden at the moment...(which, as we all know is an achievement for a gardener!)

So I'm spending a nice bit of free time here!

How are you Lisaann? How is everybody?

lisaann if those are your biggest, all I can say is BRING THEM ON GURLY! This isn't a beauty contest, we want large tomatoes. As far as varieties go, Belgium Giant, Big Zac, Brandywine, Gold Medal, Beefsteak, Mortgage Lifter,Mr. Stripey, Delicious, Black Oxheart, Golden Queen,Hybrid Porterhouse were all entered, plus a few more.

hehehehee I'll join, but I'll prolly be the runt of the bunch! I'll can't let ya know what I plan to grow. The seeds are coming from Washington and it's top secret!

sandbagger

my personal best 2 years ago was 3.5 lbs on certified scale from departments or weights and measures.