It's time to announce the winners of the fifth GREENEST THUMB CHALLENGE. As you may have noticed, from now on it's going to be the GREENEST THUMB CORNER. Everything will stay the same, just a little name change. I just wanted to acknowledge that while this contest started as a traditional challenge, it's becoming more and more clear to me that what we are doing is not really a matter of competing between us to be the best gardener.
It is about gathering once a week and sharing our best stories, successes, experiments on gardening
Do you agree? Do you find that this new name reflects better what we are doing?
Yesterday the post got the payout and today we'll look at the entries that four Steem-gardeners submitted last week.
Let's see who are going to be this week's GREENEST THUMBS!
Steem Powered Mulberries (Midwest USA)
What impressed me in this post is that those plants are really steem-powered plants. 
Video log #1 - Reforestation progress report (Colombia)
Growing Jackfruit From Seeds (Canada)
Can you grow a sub-tropical plant near Alaska? 
A Slideshow with some moments from my Garden Feb 25, 2015 (California)
I personally took a couple of ideas for my garden and I wish it will look one day as beautiful as yours!
In witness of your love for gardening, it is now my pleasure to proclaim that this week's GREENEST THUMBS are...
From the collective choice,
From my choice,
Last week the contest post generated 1.083 SBD in payout. I sent half to both of the GREENEST THUMBS.
Once again, I thank everyone of you for your entries. I learned so many things that I didn't know: I didn't imagine the existence of jackfruits (!), how some chairs in the garden can make it cozy and confortable for visitors, how homesteaders are helping one another on Steemit and how to patiently turn a monoculture into a polyculture.
...TIME FOR WEEK 6!
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a green thumb is:
the ability to make plants grow and be healthy
I can't wait to read new amazing stories of plants growing and see new GREENEST THUMB pictures. So, here are the rules for week 6.
Rules
- Post one or more pictures explaining your ability to make plants grow and be healthy, between now and this post payout time (in 7 days)
- You can either post your picture in the comments below or write a post about it. If you write a post, tag it #greenestthumb and link it in the comments below, so everyone can find it.
- I'll select a winner who will get 50% of the SBD generated by this post. The other GREENEST THUMB will be decided through a collective choice: it will be the one whose post or comment will receive the more upvotes and will get the same reward as the other winner.
- By entering the contest, you give me permission to use one of your pictures in the next post where I'll be announcing the winners.
It's not an obligation, but please consider to upvote and resteem this post (most of the former participants already did last week and I thank you for that). This will help the contest growing bigger. Furthermore, it will make the prizes bigger! I'll be resteeming some of your entries too, to give the contest more visibility.
