September 12, 2024

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Meet the winners of the 2022 Dispatch Backyard Garden Awards

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Meet the winners of the 2022 Dispatch Backyard Garden Awards
Meet the winners of the 2022 Dispatch Backyard Garden Awards

You could possibly call Tricia Brown’s yard the bee’s knees.

The Lancaster resident’s organic vegetable garden is crammed with a blend of crops, herbs and bouquets built to draw pollinating bees. The bucolic house was named Finest of Clearly show in this year’s Dispatch Yard Back garden Awards.

“I was aiming just to get into the competition,” claimed Brown, 57, who entered the contest past calendar year. “I was not expecting the Greatest of Exhibit.”

The honor was announced Sept. 10, during the Fall Dispatch Dwelling & Yard Exhibit. The fifth version of the event also recognized gardens in the classes of landscape, native crops, perennials, neighborhood backyard garden, vegetable and container. A People’s Choice prize was also presented.

PEOPLE'S CHOICE
Kay Hoagland and the Saint Andrew Christian Church community garden in Dublin.
Gardeners' comments: The Saint Andrew Christian Church community garden strives to annually donate between 700 and 1,000 pounds of fresh and organic produce to the Help My Neighbor Food Bank. The photo shows our harvest in mid-July that included white and purple potatoes, eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, zucchini, turnips with tops, white and red onions. Future harvests will include carrots and beets with tops. Both the church and the food bank are located on Smoky Row Road in Dublin, so we are really helping our neighbors with healthy food security.

The Dispatch offers the event in collaboration with Oakland Nurseries, AgPro and the At Residence area, and learn gardeners from OSU Extension decide the profitable gardens from the entries.

Brown, 57, was influenced to make her back garden in 2019 when, after a lot of many years of renting homes and tending to gardens at each individual, she and her spouse, Thomas Rhyne, bought a property of their have.

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