Best in Show!

The Future · April 20, 2012

Got a call from our Ag Office to advise I need to be present to receive a trophy on Saturday at our 74th national Ag Show. They indicate the Dancing with Smurfs was judged as not only first place in the Organic category but also Best in Show!

A pleasant surprise.

Sun City Linda · April 20, 2012

Great job! Congrats. Send a pix if you can. LInda

livinonfaith · April 20, 2012

WaHooo! Way to go!

Were they judging the whole plant, just the tomatoes, or just one particular tomato?

Agree, would love to see pics if you have them.

salix · April 20, 2012

Congratulations! I am still looking at snowbanks, so your news is very welcome.

The Future · April 20, 2012

Apologies folks but my wife visited the show today (I still have not been) and confirmed the tomatoe entry that won was actually Dancing with Smurfs, a Tom Wagner cross of a red cherry and the OSU blue tomato. ★

I was pleased to no end when a friend came to get some tomatoes from me, saw them and asked what they were (as in what vegetable). ★Now that is sufficiently different! ★

The judges apparently were struck by them also. I edited the original post.

The Future · April 20, 2012

Will get a link posted. For now, my fruit look similar to these, except the red is darker and the purple is much darker.

http://www.gartenbaer.org/?p=5049

See bottom Rhs picture (click to enlarge).

The Future · April 20, 2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by livinonfaith

WaHooo! Way to go!

Were they judging the whole plant, just the tomatoes, or just one particular tomato?

Agree, would love to see pics if you have them.

It was an entry for cherry Tomatoes of which a dozen were required for judging.

kath · April 20, 2012

How exciting- congratulations! We'd love to see you with your trophy and tomatoes! It really is a strikingly beautiful fruit.

The Future · April 22, 2012

Here are the pictures.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink

How do I embed these?

John3 · April 22, 2012

When start or edit a message click the Go Advanced button. Then go down the page to manage attachments click on it and browse to your images. That will upload your image.
Now if you want the image in the message text space click the attachment and copy the url and use the insert image button at the top of the message space.

The Future · April 22, 2012

This doesn't appear to be working. I must be missing something.

Doug9345 · April 22, 2012

The links you post are compete web pages not just images
I assume that you have the pictures on your computer somewhere if not copy them there.
Go advanced
Manage attachments
Click on browse
Navigate to the image on you computer.
Click whatever button that attaches file, on my OS it is open.
Repeat for next image
Then click upload

If you don't want to download them to your computer, right click on the image on Picasa, then select copy image location or whatever your OS says.
Then instead of clicking on browse, drop down to the next box and paste the image location you just copied. Then click up load.
Since the photos appear to belong to you I did the first one by coping and the second one as I explained in the second part.

walkinggin · April 23, 2012

Great job! Were they judging taste, beauty or both?

The Future · April 23, 2012

Thanks Doug. Will have to fire up the pc again to try this (iPad is what I mainly work from). Walkinggin: purely on looks, and only from the outside. I notice most of heirloom tomatoes looks even better cut open, and are even more impressive when eaten. But this is not the nature of the show so....next year I will to enter one of colour plus so bicolors, stripes and all. And a few dozen winter squash varieties...

kath · April 23, 2012

Very nice! Thanks for posting your pics. Best wishes for a garden filled with lots of winning entries-
kath

April 20, 2012	#1
The Future Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Bermuda Posts: 215	Best in Show! Got a call from our Ag Office to advise I need to be present to receive a trophy on Saturday at our 74th national Ag Show. They indicate the Dancing with Smurfs was judged as not only first place in the Organic category but also Best in Show! A pleasant surprise. __________________ Wise selfishness is taking care of everyone else so that they don't bring harm to you. Last edited by The Future; April 20, 2012 at 04:18 PM. Reason: Correction: Japanese black trifele was not the winner as I originally was told

April 20, 2012	#5
The Future Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Bermuda Posts: 215	Apologies folks but my wife visited the show today (I still have not been) and confirmed the tomatoe entry that won was actually Dancing with Smurfs, a Tom Wagner cross of a red cherry and the OSU blue tomato. ★ I was pleased to no end when a friend came to get some tomatoes from me, saw them and asked what they were (as in what vegetable). ★Now that is sufficiently different! ★ The judges apparently were struck by them also. I edited the original post. __________________ Wise selfishness is taking care of everyone else so that they don't bring harm to you.

April 20, 2012	#6
The Future Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Bermuda Posts: 215	Will get a link posted. For now, my fruit look similar to these, except the red is darker and the purple is much darker. http://www.gartenbaer.org/?p=5049 See bottom Rhs picture (click to enlarge). __________________ Wise selfishness is taking care of everyone else so that they don't bring harm to you.

April 22, 2012	#9
The Future Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Bermuda Posts: 215	Here are the pictures. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink How do I embed these? __________________ Wise selfishness is taking care of everyone else so that they don't bring harm to you.

April 22, 2012	#11
The Future Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Bermuda Posts: 215	This doesn't appear to be working. I must be missing something. __________________ Wise selfishness is taking care of everyone else so that they don't bring harm to you. Last edited by The Future; April 22, 2012 at 09:00 PM. Reason: Not working as expected

April 20, 2012	#2
Sun City Linda Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: SoCal Inland Posts: 1,298	Great job! Congrats. Send a pix if you can. LInda

April 20, 2012	#3
livinonfaith Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina Posts: 1,067	WaHooo! Way to go! Were they judging the whole plant, just the tomatoes, or just one particular tomato? Agree, would love to see pics if you have them.

April 20, 2012	#4
salix Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: north central B.C. Posts: 1,179	Congratulations! I am still looking at snowbanks, so your news is very welcome.

April 20, 2012	#8
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 3,254	How exciting- congratulations! We'd love to see you with your trophy and tomatoes! It really is a strikingly beautiful fruit.

April 22, 2012	#10
John3 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Alabama 7.5 or 8 depends on who you ask Posts: 727	When start or edit a message click the Go Advanced button. Then go down the page to manage attachments click on it and browse to your images. That will upload your image. Now if you want the image in the message text space click the attachment and copy the url and use the insert image button at the top of the message space.

April 23, 2012	#13
walkinggin Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Burbank, CA Posts: 197	Great job! Were they judging taste, beauty or both?

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