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The GVGO will be running the “2023 Mike Demars Memorial Mater Contest” again this year. This is a free contest for any paid GVGO member. The GVGO will provide prizes to each member of the winning team at the end of the season.

Growers that sign up will be asked for their personal best tomato weight, if they have one. If you were in last year’s contest I have your personal best recorded already. Once we have the final list we will put the growers in categories A, B or C depending on their personal best weight. Growers will be picked at random to form a team of three, so that each team has a grower out of each category. The whole idea of this contest is to have some fun, meet new people and learn some growing techniques from some of our veteran tomato growers. I encourage new tomato…

The GVGO will be running the “2023 Mike Demars Memorial Mater Contest” again this year. This is a free contest for any paid GVGO member. The GVGO will provide prizes to each member of the winning team at the end of the season.

Growers that sign up will be asked for their personal best tomato weight, if they have one. If you were in last year’s contest I have your personal best recorded already. Once we have the final list we will put the growers in categories A, B or C depending on their personal best weight. Growers will be picked at random to form a team of three, so that each team has a grower out of each category. The whole idea of this contest is to have some fun, meet new people and learn some growing techniques from some of our veteran tomato growers. I encourage new tomato…

Some farmer from Komoka was on the radio today......you know this guy?

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-80-afternoon-drive/clip/16174644-this-veggie-grower-komoka-grew-gigantic-8-lb-tomato

Hi Folks, the weighoff season is upon us and our members are starting to make the news and email photos of their new personal bests, etc. Please help revive some traffic to our messageboard and post your photos and a brief comment or two about your accomplishments. Feel free to also post them on our GVGO Facebook group page as well but keep in mind, some of our members don't go on Facebook.

I'll start by posting a photo of by largest tomato so far this year. I hope to improve on this as I still have a possible new PB growing. This one was grown off my 5.05 Watson seed from a few years ago.

The wait is over! The Giant Vegetable Growers of Ontario are excited to present our 11 participating teams for the annual Mike DeMars Memorial Tomato Contest.

Hi Folks,

My apologies for not posting this earlier, I emailed the information to all the members but a few don't have email. The spring seminar is planned for April 5th in Breslau Ont. See the attached agenda for details. Some of the growers are coming on Friday night and we have dinner reservations at the Borealis Grille & Bar in Kitchener on Friday night (April 4th) at 6:00pm. Please let me know if you plan to attend.

In support of our weigh off in Wellington Ontario, The PECPG annual seed sale in now public! Check out our great line up of all sorts of giant vegetable seeds from across Canada!

The Prince Edward County Pumpkin Growers will hold their annual seed auction this Friday night, 8:00 PM in the BigPumpkins.com Chat room. Yes, its Valentines day 💘. Come on out, support a great cause and get you honey that special seed!

The GVGO will be running a silent seed auction on the Big Pumpkins message board starting on Sunday January 26th and ending promptly on Saturday February 1st at 12:00 EST.