Announcing the winners of the 🌺 SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge for May. Thanks to everyone for the amazing entries.
Apologies
I know... you can only say sorry so many times. Afterwards you lose your credibility. Still, I'm really sorry for publishing this winners' announcement this late again. It is definitely not the first time I owe my participants an apology, and I'm a bit ashamed to say it will probably not be the last time either.
I simply lack organization and time-management skills. Chaos is all I know. I'm doing my best to divide my time between SteemIt, doctors' appointments, social calls and my garden, but it isn't working out as well as I would want it to.
Anyway... I finally made it. I've gone through all entries again and now I'm ready to announce the winners of this month's challenge.
The Challenge
This was the 13th edition of this monthly 'SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge'. I started hosting it in April 2018. This month equals the record number of entries that were submitted in March of this year.
No less than 16 official entry posts were submitted. I thank you all for giving me the opportunity to keep this challenge going.
You can find all entries in the comments section of the official contest post: 🌺 SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge - March .
As always, I really enjoyed reading all those garden journals and seeing all those beautiful pictures.
I'm experiencing a lot of setbacks and stress in my own garden - although it looks like I finally have the problems more or less under control - and I really needed some cheering up. There's something about watching gardens that makes me smile over and over again. Mission accomplished, I'd say.
The Contestants
Once again, I had the pleasure to read some updates written by recurring contestants, and have met a couple of new people and their gardens at the same time.
A big thanks to everyone who participated this time and showed us their May update.
I really enjoyed reading everyone’s posts. I could simply feel the enthusiasm and the love for greenery. Once again, I fell in love with everyone’s story...
If you love your garden - no matter how big or how small it is - I probably won’t have to tell you that you are all winners.
If you’re a bit like me you know how easy instant happiness can be: a flower that blooms, a delicious, homegrown fruit to pick, finding a ladybug walking around... They don’t come any better than that, right?!
The Winners
By now, I'm used to the fact that it is difficult to pick the two entries I will reward with the SBD prize.
If I could have it my way, you would all win first prize, but if I start doing that every month, I'll be broke before I know it...
But this time, it was more difficult than ever before. All entries were so great, it was almost impossible to choose. After going through all entries over and over again, I finally managed to narrow it down to three.
I couldn't make up my mind though.
Considering the success of the original challenge post (which gave me the highest payout I have ever received), I decided I could stop torturing my head by trying to choose, and simply reward the three entries I had chosen.
Time to announce the 3 winners of the May-edition of the 🌺 SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge.
The winners are...
DRUMROLL PLEASE
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You have come such a long way in such a short time span,
What an awesome collection of pictures,
Congratulations to all three of you.
I've sent your prizes to your wallets.
Keep Posting Garden Updates
This was the 5th edition of the #gardenjournal2019 challenge. Thanks to everyone who joined.
Since June has started, it can only get better for the people in the Northern hemisphere, so I hope to see all of you again in about week or 2, to show me what you are up to!
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