2011 Garden Wars: Week 8
Here we are. It’s the final week of voting, and next we crown a winner. We’ve winnowed the combatants to these final two!
Here we are. It’s the final week of voting, and next we crown a winner. We’ve winnowed the combatants to these final two who stand here before you, bloodied, AWAITING JUDGEMENT. Also, cute dogs/kids!
Vote down in the comments, and remember: this is the last one, so make it count!
- Sarah Milston (2)
- Ryan Smartt (1)
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Ryan Smartt
Sir Deacon, King of the Hydrangeas, basking in the glory of his Kingdom.
I wanted my final Garden Wars photo to be a look forward. Here it is, people: my infamous compost pile, marinating for next year. Vegetable scraps, grass clippings, egg shells…oh my! Could there be future acorn squash, butternut squash, pumpkins or watermelon in there, like we had this year? Only time will tell…
Sarah Milston
Figs: nature’s way of saying I love you. We were amazingly blessed to buy a house with two fig trees…that made no figs last year. Lots of pruning and some fertilizer and now we have two trees full of figs. These two were the first ones to ripen within reach and got pulled off while the kid was napping so I could make sure to take pictures. Oh, and Ryan, I have enough to share if your tree didn’t produce.
Heirloom cherry tomatoes! These little beauties are called Black Cherry; these are delicious. The big one in the back, a Green Zebra. I have had mixed success this year with tomatoes, but these scrumptious lovelies are making up for quantity, with quality.
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I vote for Sarah Milston!
I always vote for tomatoes, so Milston!
Milston! Pretty dishes and beautiful produce.
MILSTONS!!!!!
Those figs are gorgeous!!! Milston’s all the way!!!
Oh Deacon, your cuteness knows no bounds.
However, I can relate to purchasing a house with neglected fruit trees, and my husband & I are currently enjoying the tasty rewards of our fertilizing and pruning efforts. Plus, we have had similiar issues with our tomatoes this year. Therefore, Milston gets my final vote. :)
Milston! How could you not vote for figs?
Sarah Milston
MILSTON
Love me some figs. Milston all the way!
I LOVE (LOVE LOVE LOVE!) figs and now know where to go for some. Milston’s for the win!
Go Smartt! Sir Deacon is confident in his manhood while looking like one of those sissy poodles during the Maymont Easter Parade.
MILSTONS!!! Love those yummy tomatoes!!!
Go Ryan Go!
Sarah Milston!!!!!
Smartt FTW!?
Sarah and her figs get my vote!!!!
mmm compost…nomnomnom. RYAN SMARTT FTW!!
Sarah milston
My vote is for the heart shaped figs so Milston!
Figs! Sarah FTW
Going with Ryan Smarrt because of his “look forward” pic. Love that optimistic / realistic attitude!
Have to go with Sarah for the win! Those figs look scrumptious as do the tomatoes!
I’m not a dog person, but the photo and caption of Sir Deacon, King of the Hydrangeas, got me. I vote Smartt.
The Milston’s for sure!
I appreciate Sarah’s passive aggressive smack talk. However, you wouldn’t have figs or tomatoes without dirt…i.e. compost.
Therefore, compost > figs, tomatoes.
Therefore, I vote for Ryan Smartt.
Milston’s!
My vote is for Ryan and Deacon.
Eew … Figs. My vote is for Team Smartt and the garden of the future!
Sarah Milston!!
Go Sarah!!
I actually prefer figs and tomatoes to piles of dirt… but Ryan is my pal and I don’t know Sarah… so a vote for Smartt. Is that cheating?
I always hated fig newtons as a kid (they were the “healthy choice” over Oreos and Chips Ahoy). Therefore Smartt!
Love the heart shaped fig! Milston for the win!
MIlston has my vote again! Wonderful contest!
Ryan Smartt!!!!
As much as I love figs and tomatoes, I must vote Ryan Smartt and the King of the Hydrangeas FTW.
Deacon & Ryan Smartt get my vote.
I vote for Ryan and Deacon, The Lone Rangea.
I vote for Deacon and dirt. Go Ryan!
I am always a forward thinker, therefore Rico Suave aka Ryan Smartt gets my vote.
Ryan and Deacon Smartt get my vote!
i like dogs
that look like hogs
i like compost
and love Smartt the most!!
King Deacon and His Dad the Dirt Man! That’s my Final Answer…
Smartt All the Way!!!
Milston this time. :)
I Vote for Sir Deacon…I mean I vote for Ryan
While cute dogs and hydrangeas always win big points with me, I have to cast my vote for Milston this time around — those beautiful figs and heirloom tomatoes did the trick.
I vote for the Milston’s garden all the way, and would like to put in my order for a dozen figs when they’re ripe!
My vote is for Sarah!!!
Sarah, great job of getting fig trees to produce in less than a year, Ambers granny used to make preserves with figs and I think strawberry jello and they were delicious. Sure wish I lived close enough to taste you tomatoes. Go Sarah!
Sarah’s figs all the way
Milston’s figs!
Sarah’s garden and creative pictures and of course, Lily Jaymes, winners in my garden book!
For the final vote – I heart figs.
I always vote for the underDOG.
Sic ’em, Smartt.
Sarah Milston! Those figs look yummy!
Those figs just look too good not to vote for them! Milston all the way!
Voting for Sarah Milston!