There's a whole bunch of us, like a jillion growing them and there are only 17 entrants. Do the rest of you not care about winning a cool book from OG or a lot of free seeds or whatever you want from Territorial Seeds catalog? Don't be shy, just enter. There are 4 winners, not just the biggest. There is also a People's Choice that is basically a pic submitted from each of us and one gets picked by the majority as the favorite. Doesn't have to be a big tomato. It could be the smallest, goofiest or whatever. I am waiting.......

The only tomatoes I'm likely to get are SunGold cherries - others have gone to the squirrels. Now if we had a cucumber contest, I'm sure I'd win – have harvested some as long as my arm. But for eatin' the smaller ones are better.

David, I was planning to enter until the tornadoes and floods came! Been too busy to even think about it. I won't even have any ripe tomatoes for a couple weeks if I'm lucky.

There are some great ones out there and the plants are huge and healthy. Blasted weather.

I have entered, but won't have ripe fruits for a while now, maybe another 3 weeks at least...possibly a little longer. Got some nice hoghearts comin' on though.

Ah-hem, wait'll next year.
Actually, all my tomatoes are in "the field" as opposed to in "the raised beds, so they're not primo. 2 beds this year with plans to expand to 6 next year plus 2 ,4 x 8 cold frames. I also don't have a regular camera let alone a digital camera or I'd post pics of what I do have.
It is my plan to try 2-3 new varieties each year to find what does best here and what personally tastes the best and focus on those, regardless of potential size.
We're dirt poor and do what we can with what we've got, and organics and composting make it possible.
I wish all the contestants luck ad truly look forward to pics of the results--it gives me something to strive for.

OK, you guilted me into joining (I sent you the e-mail). I highly doubt either of the larger types I grow will amount to much because my larger tomatoes are still relatively small (I just tend to like smaller tomatoes better), but figured I should support the contest since I read so much of the boards (it's always good to let the sponsors know they are getting a lot of exposure from their sponsoring).

Yep, me too, James. Started late and didn't sucker one plant to get that whopper prize winner. I prefer larger numbers of smaller tomatoes.

Maybe I'll have something red to enter into the People's Choice if the cut off date isn't too early. I think sometimes those awards are best chosen when the entrant is anonymous. How is the people's choice chosen?

OK as long as we know that I do use epsom salt in the planting hole, though none since then. My printer seems to be working. No real giants here but I could take pictures of tomatoes and have DH download them I think. The olpalka are not going to really fit to the round size on the paper though if I entered them.

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Maybe I'll have something red to enter into the People's Choice if the cut off date isn't too early. I think sometimes those awards are best chosen when the entrant is anonymous. How is the people's choice chosen?

The People's Choice can be anonymous. I could have everybody email me their pic, then I will post them all in one album and only have a number or description with the pic.
Don't worry about not having any tomatoes yet. My contest maters are 4 feet high with zero fruit on them. The deadline is a long ways off. Do we even have one? I better check.

I never entered any garlic bulbs...but I have them,lol.

What kind of tomatoes am I trying to enter...big, pretty, im in!!!

Growing Brandywine, Purple Cherokee, Better boy and Roma.

How many entries can you have per variety of tomato? Is it one tomato for the biggest contest then one tomato for the people's choice, or does it have to be the same tomato?

Your People's Choice pic can be of anything tomato related. The contest entry is any big tomato you have, but just one entry per category for all of us.