Over the past week, 115 different members submitted content to each of the areas that this contest covered. I am grateful to everyone who participated, especially those who did unusual activities that are not normal day to day activities, e.g. posting reviews in the Green Pages. Thank you to everyone who enjoyed the database this week, and a special thank you to @MikeD of Victory Seed Company for providing seeds to the winners!

The first place winner this week is @Joy!

The second place winner is @bamira

Third place was @p1mkw

If you're curious, here's how the top 10 members placed:

1) @Joy
2) @bamira
3) @p1mkw
4) @jmorth
5) @lovesblooms
6) @MikeD
7) @SRQHoyas
8) @Calif_Sue
9) @needrain
10) @plantladylin

Now, we had a slightly awkward situation here, because Victory Seed Co can't ship seeds to other countries, and @bamira is in the Czech Republic. I sent him a tree-mail and he very graciously told me that it's not a problem and to give the prize to the next one down. So third place will get the second place win. This is a hazard of running a contest on an international site like ATP: sometimes a winner can't claim a prize because of laws making it impossible to send prizes to them.

So thank you, bamira, for your kind understanding. I'm sending extra acorns your way to thank you.

Thank you, everyone, for a great week! I had a blast.

Thank you, @dave and @MikeD ... I'll certainly put the gift card to good use.

And, thank you, @bamira. That was very kind of you to pass the prize on down.

Congratulations everyone! Great Job!

now, the garden is not enough on the seeds that I have, I need other garden.
congratulations to all, We all win , because we're doing it out of love.

This was fun, and I agree with Stefan--I think the contest motivated me, but I wasn't really posting and such to win, I honestly needed to record a lot of things somewhere other than Notepad, and it brought back a lot of gardening memories as I thought of plants I've experienced, and I really like interacting with the members here so I enjoyed contributing overall.

Thanks, all!

Congratulations to all the winners

It's odd to even be on the list! I've been working for some time to get many of my photos entered in the database. It seems I've grown quite a few that don't have any photo entries. The contest apparently just coincided with what I'd already begun. A few more days and I'll be finished (I hope). Originally I'd planned to get photos done, then comment on some plant entries. That was for the winter. Now things in my location are waking up, so I have no clue when I'll get around to doing any commenting.

Congratulations to everyone. The real winners will be folks that use the database.

@Joy has passed her prize down, as well! So I have some reshuffling to do. @p1mkw will get the bigger gift certificate and @jmorth will get the second one!

Wow everyone must have worked really hard. I know I contributed my fair share of pictures and data etc. but clearly nothing like you super-hard workers! Congratulations to all the winners!!
Dave when are the extra acorns for the contributions being awarded?

dave said:@Joy has passed her prize down, as well! So I have some reshuffling to do. @p1mkw will get the bigger gift certificate and @jmorth will get the second one!

Wow @joy ... Thanks!!! Seems like I sort of 'backed' in to this, but I'll take it!! thanks again. And good job everyone who participated.

Dutchlady1 said:Dave when are the extra acorns for the contributions being awarded?

I don't think we were offering extra acorns this week.

I guess I misunderstood

This is one of the points laid out in the contest:
1) Proposing databox updates to plants that don't have yet any data details. Do you see a plant with absolutely no data details? Submit a data proposal including at least 5 data items. You can check off that it's an annual or perennial, wants sun or shade, blooms yellow, etc. 5 points per approved proposal.

I submitted 11 databox proposals I think. I was awarded the usual one point for each.

The "points" are not acorns but points applied to the contest. Whoever got the most points was the winner. Kind of like in a game, you count up your points at the end to see who wins. This is how we computed the winner of the week's contest.

Aha! Got it now! Points and Acorns are not the same thing!

Winner after all; thanks to Joy and bamira! (@Joy, @bamira)
and thanks for the opportunity to participate @ Dave
and thanks to Victory Seed Co. (@MikeD)

needrain said:The real winners will be folks that use the database.

Couldn't have said it better myself!
Congrats everyone.

vic said:Congratulations to all the winners

bamira said:now, the garden is not enough on the seeds that I have, I need other garden.
congratulations to all, We all win , because we're doing it out of love.

Well said, Stefan!

Congratulations to all the winners!

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you for adding to the data base.

needrain said: The real winners will be folks that use the database.

I wholeheartedly agree!