It's time to announce the winners of the fifth GREENEST THUMB CHALLENGE. As you may have noticed, from now on it's going to be the GREENEST THUMB CORNER. Everything will stay the same, just a little name change. I just wanted to acknowledge that while this contest started as a traditional challenge, it's becoming more and more clear to me that what we are doing is not really a matter of competing between us to be the best gardener.
It is about gathering once a week and sharing our best stories, successes, experiments on gardening
Do you agree? Do you find that this new name reflects better what we are doing?
Yesterday the post got the payout and today we'll look at the entries that four Steem-gardeners submitted last week.
Steem Powered Mulberries (Midwest USA)
What impressed me in this post is that those plants are really steem-powered plants. @papa-pepper donated them to @kiaraantonoviche, and she is now enjoying them growing. Every new leaf reminds her the love and support from the Steemit community. It’s the magic of plants: they often has the power to reminds us how steady and constant grow will one day produce delicious fruits. And that’s our destiny as Steem-gardeners!
Video log #1 - Reforestation progress report (Colombia)
@ecoinstant and his wife @ecoinstante started together something that can really be named “a challenge”: a polyculture reforestation in a place that was once a coffee monoculture. That’s quite a task: plants that were once used to chemicals and poisons are now growing counting only on their care and permaculture skills. Coffee plants that are dying are being substituted with a wide range of different species. This challenge, as @ecoinstant writes, is not just with nature: is with neighbors too, as most of them used to laugh at their efforts. I just wish I was able to buy organic coffee from you guys through the Steemit platform!
Growing Jackfruit From Seeds (Canada)
Can you grow a sub-tropical plant near Alaska? @thekitchenfairy shows us that you can definitely take the first step! Her passion for a plant (jackfruit) together with her determination, led to saving some precious seeds and having them grow through the Canadian summer. The little trees are now growing inside and we really hope that in a couple of years we could read on Steemit about you harvesting their sweet fruits!
A Slideshow with some moments from my Garden Feb 25, 2015 (California)
@mariannewest prepared a slideshow with many pictures of her beautiful garden. You can see the development of the kiwis plant, several cozy corners where to take a sit and all the edible plants that grew and produced great fruits.
I personally took a couple of ideas for my garden and I wish it will look one day as beautiful as yours!
In witness of your love for gardening, it is now my pleasure to proclaim that this week's GREENEST THUMBS are...
From the collective choice, @kiaraantonoviche is this week's GREENEST THUMB, as her post received the higher number of upvotes (71 at the time of writing this).
From my choice, @thekitchenfairy is this week's GREENEST THUMB for her passion and determination (and for writing a very detailed and funny post).
Last week the contest post generated 1.083 SBD in payout. I sent half to both of the GREENEST THUMBS.
Once again, I thank everyone of you for your entries. I learned so many things that I didn't know: I didn't imagine the existence of jackfruits (!), how some chairs in the garden can make it cozy and confortable for visitors, how homesteaders are helping one another on Steemit and how to patiently turn a monoculture into a polyculture.
...TIME FOR WEEK 6!
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a green thumb is:
the ability to make plants grow and be healthy
I can't wait to read new amazing stories of plants growing and see new GREENEST THUMB pictures. So, here are the rules for week 6.
Rules
- Post one or more pictures explaining your ability to make plants grow and be healthy, between now and this post payout time (in 7 days)
- You can either post your picture in the comments below or write a post about it. If you write a post, tag it #greenestthumb and link it in the comments below, so everyone can find it.
- I'll select a winner who will get 50% of the SBD generated by this post. The other GREENEST THUMB will be decided through a collective choice: it will be the one whose post or comment will receive the more upvotes and will get the same reward as the other winner.
- By entering the contest, you give me permission to use one of your pictures in the next post where I'll be announcing the winners.
It's not an obligation, but please consider to upvote and resteem this post (most of the former participants already did last week and I thank you for that). This will help the contest growing bigger. Furthermore, it will make the prizes bigger! I'll be resteeming some of your entries too, to give the contest more visibility.
i already posted my entry for your contest the greenest thumb!! I am so excited as well as overwhelmed while i was finishing my blog! hope everyone will like it!
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Here you are!
https://steemit.com/greenestthumb/@deeday31/greenest-thumbs-corner-6-the-healing-power-of-mint
Thank you for joining the #greenestthumb!
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My pleasure! Hope through blogging I can influence many people to plant more and save the environment for the next generation to enjoy and also us! God bless @cryptofarmer
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Thank you @cryptofarmer i would like to join too in the future
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Do you like to gardening?
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Please don't consider this post: I sent it three times for error network.
Can I delete it?
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I wrote an article about this - it has to do with the latest upgrade - errors now don't always mean it didn't go through - it can be hard to keep up with new developments on this platform.
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Happy gardening y'all! 🤗
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Thank you so much!
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Thank you @crytofarmer !!!
I love how you summarized my blog, so nice to read! ❤️
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It's been my pleasure! Congratulations!
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You do make such good summaries! Never a copy/paste from you ;p
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I enjoy writing reviews! And when they are about gardening - not to say about permaculture! - it's my pleasure ;-)
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So, I am having some thoughts on this challenge/corner. First, If you like to boost the payout, you could break this post into 2. One day, announce the winners (if there are any - to that later) showcasing the entries like you did. Then, the next day, post the new call for submissions. The payout could be a combination of the earnings of both posts.
Also, if you truly want to make it a corner, a gathering place, a sharing of info, let's not have winners but share equally between qualifying entries. The qualifications could be that the post must be original photos by or of the gardener - something like that. To avoid spamming with open source photos.
I definitely dislike awarding the person with the most votes. If it is voting among the participants, fine. But if it is on the post in general - that only means the award is going to the person who has been here the longest or has the largest following. They already get rewarded by a higher payout on their post and the newcomer who might put a lot of effort in their post can never compete.
Personally, I like the idea of communal sharing.
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Thank you for taking the time to reflect on the #greenestthumb.
I like your ideas.
First of all the idea of communal sharing: provided that every submission is original, the SBD payout could be equally shared between participants.
This could create what I imagine as a gathering place, where anyone could share their successes, best practices and stories about gardening.
The title could become then "Greenest Thumbs Corner" - how do you like it?
Instead of enumerating the weeks as a list, I could write "Greenest Thumbs Corner - January 24" for example. In that case January 24 would be the day in which we virtually gather.
Any post tagged #greenestthumb published before that day would be reviewed by me, as if I was hosting the gathering and presenting the entries.
It sounds great to me! What do you think?
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sounds good to me!!
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P.s.
Good idea to split the post in two.
I could first publish a call for submission with a title similar to: "Greenest Thumbs Corner - Call for submissions by January 24"
And then "Greenest Thumbs Corner - January 24" would be the post where I showcase the entries.
On the next day I could publish another call for submissions for the following week.
As you said, the payout in SBD of the two posts would create the pool for the communal sharing.
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hi i want to join! i love gardening too! i have my own rooftop garden :) i am just confuse when to or what day should i post my 1st entry and what title should i put? thanks!
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That's great!
I understand that you feel confused because I had some trouble publishing the last post.
If you want to join this week, please post your entry between now and this saturday, November 4th.
You can choose the title you want, just tag it #greenestthumb and link it to this post.
I'm looking forward to reading your entry.
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ok! i am sooo excited! :)
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