Ended Official BYC 2024 Summer Fair—Outdoor Garden Show

[Kiki]

Winners announced here!​

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Official BYC 2024 Summer Fair
Outdoor Garden Show
Ends on August 25th, 2024​

Summer is the perfect time to show off your garden! Do you grow heirloom tomatoes or bushels of cucumbers? What about sweet corn, green beans, carrots or zucchini? Do you have an herb garden or berry bushes? If you have fruit trees, let’s see them! Maybe your outdoor garden is all about flowers…lavender, roses, sunflowers or other beauties.

Let’s see what your hard work and green thumb produces!

The Outdoor Garden Show is a judged photo contest.

If entries warrant, we will split the contest into three categories - harvest, garden, & flower, with prizes for each category. For examples, see last year's winners below.

Prizes - At least three 3-month PFMs!

To increase your chances of winning, please read the rules before entering.
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Rules:

1. Four entries per member. One entry per post, please.
2. An entry is *one* picture of your garden, a plant in your garden, or your garden's harvest.
3. Include a brief description of your entry.
4. Images that have been resized might be disqualified if they are too small to judge.
5. No screenshots, watermarks, date stamps, text, etc., on the photo. No collages.
6. The photo needs to have been taken by you.
7. You cannot use a photo that won an award in another BYC-sponsored contest.
8. High-quality images are recommended. Basic editing, such as cropping and other subtle changes, are allowed.
9. ALL photos MUST be uploaded to BYC and not hosted on other image sites, personal websites, etc.
10. Prizes are limited to one per person per contest.
11. All BYC rules apply: Terms of Service (Rules)
12. Entries will be accepted until August 25th, 2024, at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

Photography tips from fellow BYC members:

• Photography Tips from BYC's jolenesdad
• Photography Tips from BYC's mdees88
• Photography Tips from BYC's TudyBot
• Flat Lay Photography for Beginners by BYC's CluckNDoodle

2023 Winners​

Harvest Category

From left to right, photos by @HopKat, @Phaedra Geiermann, @Yard Farmer. @mararva, @BabyGotQuack, @tripletfeb & @ChickyWhicky

Garden Category

From left to right, photos by @Sefirothe, @Somewhere_In_The_Clouds, @Sammster, @Decoyman, @NanaK, @BirdsBeesTrees

Flower Category

From left to right, photos by @WoDia, @Spudlo, @Sharwig, @The Welch Chickens, @Jenbirdee & @StinkyAcres

2022 Winners​

Harvest Category

From left to right, photos by @CluckNDoodle, @StinkyAcres, @Duckpip, @TJAnonymous, & @Nbullinger,

Garden Category

From left to right, photos by @Beccatrix, @Dr Evy, @Phaedra Geiermann, @SueT, & @BirdsBeesTrees

Flower Category

From left to right, photos by @Wild Claws, @domdit, @MACCanadianCoop, & @FredHill

2021 Winners​

From left to right, photos by @StinkyAcres, @vall, & @Sueby

This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors
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[Kiki]

Official BYC 2024 Summer Fair Contests
Click on a picture or link to enter the contest​

Standard-Bred Chicken Show
Other Poultry Show
Meat Bird Show
Livestock Show
Equine Show
Caged Bird Show
Farm Machinery Show
Car, Truck, Motorcycle, RV & Boat Show
Favorite Fair Memories
Outdoor Garden Show
Indoor Plant Show
Artwork Show
Handcrafts Show
Baked Goods Show
Canning and Preserving Show
Fair Food Show
BYC & Sister Sites Trivia Challenge
Bingo
Count the Founding Father's Candies
Count the Summer Fair Candies

These contests are brought to you by our BYC Sponsors
(click to view & support them)​

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Looking forward to seeing everyone's awesome entries!

 

[TwoCrows]

*Not an entry*

This is Golden Moss, its meant to be planted as a border plant, grows like a carpet. It started out the size of a quarter 3 months ago, its now in a 5" pot. I am going to try and bring it inside this winter, but it won't stop growing!

Medusa head succulent. Most people plant these in cactus gardens outside. It started out this spring 8" across, its now 16" across, its flowering. Its a monster, I am going to try and winter it over outside this winter.

 

[alinas2010]

Do greenhouse gardens count? They’re outdoors…but indoors.

 

[Kiki]

Do greenhouse gardens count? They’re outdoors…but indoors.

Sure.

 

[Debbie292d]

*Not an entry

My favorite flowers are daisies. Over the years, I'd plant them, and they'd freeze out, though they grow wild in the fields. A few years ago I stole some seeds from in the ditch. This is them this morning. It's a section of our property that's wildflowers and fruit trees.

I'm just so happy to see these in there now!

 

[alinas2010]

My greenhouse garden. Mostly tomatoes and peppers. Some cucumbers, what I thought was a small melon variety but actually seems to be a spaghetti squash. Not sure how I’m gonna handle that situation. Also, I may have overestimated the space I had

 

[tripletfeb]

Entry #1 Garlic haul. This is the first year I've grown garlic and I'm pretty impressed with how big the bulbs got! I will be saving two of them to plant again in the fall

 

[The Welch Chickens]

My grape vine. It’s grown for the leaves (Middle Eastern stuffed grape leaves!) more than the grapes.