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November 5, 2010

Cabbage patch kid!

Thomas Luke Schauber of Sudlersville Elementary in Sudlersville was Maryland's winner of a $1,000 scholarship from Bonnie Plants for growing the largest and best looking cabbage among 8,620 third-graders in the state.

Each year, more than 1.5 million third-graders in 45 states are given hands-on gardening experience growing colossal cabbages. At stake is a $1,000 scholarship from Bonnie Plants.

The free O.S. Cross, or "oversized," cabbage plants are delivered each year to students whose teachers have signed up for the program on line www.bonnieplants.com.

If nurtured and cared for, cabbages can grow bigger than a basketball and tip the scales at nearly 40 pounds!

At the end of the season, teachers from each class select the student who has grown the “best” cabbage, based on size and appearance.

The winners in each state are then randomly selected by the state's head of agriculture

Posted by Susan Reimer at 2:57 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)
Categories: Garden contests

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That will make an AWESOME pot of ham, cabbage,and potatoes.

Congrats Thomas!

Posted by: Lisa | November 5, 2010 4:18 PM

WHOA!! Congratulations, Thomas!

Love my brussel sprouts.

Posted by: Michelle Brown | November 6, 2010 6:48 AM

Way to go, Thomas. And way to go, Bonnie Plants for encouraging kids to get outside and garden!

Posted by: Betsy S. Franz | November 6, 2010 9:15 AM

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Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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