You are viewing the Garden Contest page from 2007! Click here to go to the current contest for 2008.

There's a growing movement to get rid of pesticides in yards and gardens across the country. You can be part of it, too.  Grab your trowel and pick up that camera! We're having a green photo contest.

Sign up now to register. You'll get:

• tips on how to grow your garden drug-free
• a chance for Gnome Suzuki to visit your green space (isn't he cute?)
• membership in a blossoming community
• prizes, prizes, prizes! (if you win...)

Choose the best snapshot(s) and/or videos of your pesticide-free garden or lawn, the story of how you make your gardens and yards beautiful without chemicals (in 200 words or less), then send it all to us.

You can win in any of these four categories:

• Luscious Lawns--Best lawns or lawn alternatives (i.e. xeriscaping)
• Voluminous Vegetables--Best food-producing gardens
• Outstanding Ornamentals--Best flower garden
• Balcony Bliss - Best limited-space garden

Check out last year's Contest Entries!

Instructions:

Only one photo per category.

We want the back-story on your garden! Tell us a short story about:
        1. Why your garden or lawn is important to you
        2. Why you don’t  use pesticides
        3. How you keep your lawn or garden beautiful

Please keep your stories to 200 words or less (“Brevity is the soul of wit”—W.S.).

Gardens should be free of chemicals pesticides and chemical fertilizers. The definition of ‘pesticides’ includes insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, algaecides, and slimicides. Be aware that "Weed and Feed" products include chemical pesticides.

We want to find Canada’s best pesticide-free lawn and gardens!

Rules and Regulations