In the Garden with Pat Rubin

Bee garden writer Pat Rubin writes about everything that grows, from flowers and trees to vegetables and lawns. Pat volunteered for several years as a Placer County Master Gardener and has written about gardening for many national and regional publications. In addition to gardening, she spends time raising and showing miniature horses and miniature donkeys.

In the Garden will include news, events, advice and other gardening tidbits. Pat will also answer reader questions.

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August 22, 2007

Ugliest tomato can win a prize

Santa Sweets, growers and distributors of the UGLYRIPE Tomato, wants to see pictures of homegrown tomatoes with “lumps, bumps and more.” They’re sponsoring a contest to find the ugliest and strangest looking tomatoes. Not all tomatoes come out “picture-perfect,” they note, even though those misshapen tomatoes may be delicious.

All you have to do is senda photo, and a story if you have one, to santa.sweets@gmail.com by September 21, 2007. The winner, according to a press release issued by Santa Sweets, gets “not only bragging rights, but a delicious box of UGLYRIPES, too.”

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