Open Contest 2025 BYC Summer Fair

[CCsGarden]

Started a thread. Go vote!


@casportpony I got 15 people and I'm sure more over the week. You should open them back up.

Can't wait to enter along with the others!

For sure the food/ baking one would get entries.

 

[CCsGarden]

So, will there be a baking show? If you need help, I can help judge. ( I wouldn't enter if you want me help to judge ) .

 

[Debbie292d]

So, will there be a baking show? If you need help, I can help judge. ( I wouldn't enter if you want me help to judge ) .

If it gets restarted, you can enter. Having enough judges wasn't the issue. We had just discussed narrowing down the number of contests that weren't going well, and also considered moving a couple to the fall. Harvests, for instance, are much later up here than down in the south. For example, if I were to make something from our grapes and want to enter, it wouldn't be possible until right around the time the summer contests end or later.

 

[CCsGarden]

If it gets restarted, you can enter. Having enough judges wasn't the issue. We had just discussed narrowing down the number of contests that weren't going well, and also considered moving a couple to the fall. Harvests, for instance, are much later up here than down in the south. For example, if I were to make something from our grapes and want to enter, it wouldn't be possible until right around the time the summer contests end or later.

Oh yes! I totally understand. I think we do get most of our fruits and veggies at the end of the summer.

 

[Debbie292d]

Oh yes! I totally understand. I think we do get most of our fruits and veggies at the end of the summer.

We can't plant anything that'll be above ground, unless indoors, until May 1 at the earliest. May 15th is safer, or waiting until June 1. Chances of frost are slim by then, so we're buying/growing in the house, for instance, tomato plants that are 6" tall or so, planting them and other seeds. I've lost plants a couple of years due to a late frost. They will advise us of frost warnings, but not paying attention was my fault. We've draped old sheets over everything and saved it, though, if we heed the warnings.

Down south, their seeds have been in the ground a month or two before ours. Our temps are still dipping into the 40s and 50s at night, making for slower growing. It's warming up now though. Last night 55F, tonight 59, then it zooms up to 60s and 70s. I have one early tomato starting to turn orange, yay! The concord grapes that have come out look like tiny green peas, so it'll be a while yet.

The longer growing seasons the South gets are surely an advantage. We make it work up here, though.

 

[CCsGarden]

We can't plant anything that'll be above ground, unless indoors, until May 1 at the earliest. May 15th is safer, or waiting until June 1. Chances of frost are slim by then, so we're buying/growing in the house, for instance, tomato plants that are 6" tall or so, planting them and other seeds. I've lost plants a couple of years due to a late frost. They will advise us of frost warnings, but not paying attention was my fault. We've draped old sheets over everything and saved it, though, if we heed the warnings.

Down south, their seeds have been in the ground a month or two before ours. Our temps are still dipping into the 40s and 50s at night, making for slower growing. It's warming up now though. Last night 55F, tonight 59, then it zooms up to 60s and 70s. I have one early tomato starting to turn orange, yay! The concord grapes that have come out look like tiny green peas, so it'll be a while yet.

The longer growing seasons the South gets are surely an advantage. We make it work up here, though.

Yeah, the frost is always so harsh! I started everything under "growl lights" inside and transplanted in late April. We did have sudden late freeze this year that was very hard to work thru, but my plants made it