Are you an avid gardener? Do you enjoy growing edibles in your garden? If so, here’s your chance to show off your gardening skills and bountiful harvest!

Launched in 2015, the annual Community Garden Edibles Competition is back, and we’re once again looking for the heaviest or longest fruits and vegetables in Singapore. Come pit your gardening skills against those of other passionate gardeners, and stand to win attractive prizes.

Competition Categories

There are two main categories – the Longest and the Heaviest – with six fruit/vegetable types each. Participants may:

• Compete in one or both categories
• Submit one or multiple types of fruit/vegetable, but only one entry for each fruit/vegetable type
• Submit entries as individuals or together as a group, but not both

LONGEST		HEAVIEST
1.	Brinjal Solanum melongena	1.	Cabbage Brassica oleracea
2.	Cucumber Cucumis sativus	2.	Cherry Tomato Lycopersicon esculentum
3.	Lady’s Finger Abelmoschus esculentus	3.	Papaya Carica papaya
4.	Long Bean Vigna unguiculata	4.	Pumpkin Cucurbita spp.
5.	Luffa Luffa spp.	5.	Radish Raphanus sativus
6.	Snake Gourd Trichosanthes anguina	6.	Winter Melon Benincasa hispida

Registration

This Competition is open to all persons residing in Singapore during the Competition period (from 27 April to 26 October 2019), except for staff of NParks. To register, please fill in the form here. Registration closes on 27 May 2019.

Submission Criteria

• Participants must submit their entries for shortlisting on 23 October 2019 (Wednesday), from 9 am to 8 pm. Late entries will not be accepted.
• Participants should submit entries with the stalk or vine still attached. Fruit wax, polish or other related enhancement products are not permitted to be used in this competition.
• Participants will be required to present each fruit/vegetable together with a photograph of themselves posing with their mature fruit/vegetable and standing next to the plant it grew from in their garden just before harvest.

Judging Criteria

a) Length/weight of fruit or vegetable with vine or stalk attached (50%)

b) Condition (25%): Clean appearance, absence of blemishes, freshness, etc.

c) Colour (25%): Natural colour, attractiveness, reflecting freshness and maturity, etc.

The judging panel will consist of representatives from the National Parks Board (NParks) and its supporting partners for this Competition. The decision of the judging panel shall be final. No correspondence regarding the judges’ decision will be entertained.

Competition Schedule

Programme	Date	Time	Venue
Registration deadline	27 May 2019	-	-
Submission & Shortlisting	23 Oct 2019	9 am - 8 pm	HortPark
Final Judging (Attendance not required)	24 Oct 2019	-	-
Winners notified by email	25 Oct 2019	-	-
Awards Ceremony	26 Oct 2019	TBC	Community Garden Festival, Esplanade Park
Display of selected submissions	26 & 27 Oct 2019	TBC	Community Garden Festival, Esplanade Park

Prizes

The following prizes will be awarded for each of the fruit and vegetable type.

Champion	$400 gardening gift vouchers and trophy
First Runner Up	$300 gardening gift vouchers
Second Runner Up	$200 gardening gift vouchers
Consolation Prizes (4th to 10th)	$100 gardening gift vouchers

*New Fun Category* Best-Looking Tatsoi Mustard

This year, we challenge you to grow the best-looking Tatsoi Mustard! While this fun category is not part of the main competition, the best-looking Tatsoi Mustard submitted will win a special prize. 

To enter, simply submit your Tatsoi Mustard plant on 23 October 2019 (Wednesday), from 9 am to 8 pm, together with a photograph of yourself posing with the plant in your garden just before harvest. No registration is required.

Judging Criteria

a) Condition (50%): Symmetrical, clean appearance, absence of blemishes, freshness

b) Colour (25%): Natural colour, attractiveness, reflecting freshness and maturity

c) Size (25%): Diameter of rosette at the widest point

Complimentary Seeds

Participants may submit their fruit(s) or vegetable(s) from existing plants growing in their garden or grown from seeds obtained from any source.

Resources

1. Click here to see the rules and regulations for the Community Garden Edibles Competition 2019.
2. Click here to download the Community Garden Edibles Competition 2019 brochure.

For more information or enquiries on the  Competition, email us at nparks_hortpark@nparks.gov.sg or call 64715601.