As it's a long wait between the #gardenjournal challenges, we thought we'd create a mid month garden challenge to keep your green writing thumbs occupied. Every month there will be a different theme, but the catch is, you only have THREE days to write and enter! So keep your eye out for a notification from @gardenhive so you can get a creative garden post written, and make sure you comment on others as well.
If you miss the deadline, don't worry! You can still write on that theme - you just won't be selected as a winner, but will still get a chance for some great upvotes for great garden content!
Please read the following carefully.
This Month's Prompts
Each month we'll supply TWO prompts. Choose one - or hey, you can do both if you like!
Prompt 1: Your 'first' garden memory
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'I remember the first.....'
- What is the first garden you remember from childhood?
- HOWEVER, it doesn't have to be your childhood garden - you could write about the first garden you had when you moved out of home, moved cities, or your first succulent garden or first farm you owned. Just think of the word 'first'.
- You could also consider the theme as your first failure, first success, first revelation, first ...whatever you like! Be creative with the prompt.
Prompt 2: I Was Bitten By A...
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We don't think this prompt needs explaining, and we're sure every gardener has been bitten by something in their garden, whether to hilarious result or tragic.
Guidelines
- Stories are as welcome as real memories - 'creative' is key! You could even do a freewrite!
- Original photos only - please no more than three.
- Word count should be no more than 800 words
- Tag someone you think might be interested in the challenge
- Beautifully written posts are favoured - consider description, humour, personal anecdotes, philosophy.
- NO AI written content please. We don't mind grammatical errors and we DO love human content.
- Please reblog and THREAD this post if you can!
You MUST
- Use the tag #creativegarden as your first tag
- Include reference to this challenge post somewhere in your post, preferably at the end.
- Pay attention to the countdown - no entries will be accepted after the due date.
Prize
The winner will recieve 75 percent of the post rewards for this post next month. So please REBLOG and THREAD this post and tell your friends!
Depending on the popularity of this contest, we may offer further prizes! Let us know if there's anything you would add or change - this is YOUR community!
Would you like to be tagged for next month? Let us know in the comments.
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Looking forward to reading all the creative entries!✍👨🌾👩🌾
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Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 60/70) Liquid rewards.
I love the gardening community here and I am IN!
https://hive.blog/creativegarden/@zekepickleman/pickleman-family-garden-firsts-for-the-creativegarden-challenge
My first garden and where we are now.
Here's mine!
Here's mine!!
https://peakd.com/hive-140635/@riverflows/to-need-only-parsley
Hello everyone, here is my participation.
https://hive.blog/hive-140635/@oli1965/bienvenidos-al-jardin-creativo-un-nuevo-desafio-de-escritura-en-la-colmena-del-jardin-my-mothers-gardenoli1965
https://peakd.com/creativegarden/@proto26/early-garden-memories
I went over the word limit when I included the reference to this post 🥴
I'll survive 🤣
Whew! If @jude9 hadn't tagged me I would have missed this! Here's my entry
https://peakd.com/hive-140635/@owasco/the-summer-of-love
And I love it! Fabulous post
Thank you, oh queen of fabulous posts!
@buckaroobaby @owasco - you're both so fabulous you've been selected for the poll votes on Threads this week https://leofinance.io/threads/view/gardenhive/re-leothreads-qzuakbv6
Wow! Thanks! Appreciate it! Stiff competition in @buckaroobaby! Great company, I am honored. xoxoxoxo
Ditto!
I am happy that you've submitted your entry! Good to see you.
Thanks @jude9 ! LLove our hive gardeners
Yes! I love this idea. But my writing thumb is not green but a delicious fermenting dirt colour
Somehow brown thumbs just don't ring ... Nicely.
No. It sounds disgusting. Green thumbs are rather attractive sounding. Here's my entry
https://hive.blog/hive-140635/@buckaroobaby/goat-got-your-tongue
Wow! There's another garden writing challenge. Hopefully I can join to this one and also hopefully many will join.
Sis @bigeyes2012 and @jhero22 you can join this one.
🙏😍 I would like to be tagged for next month!
@thepromisedland
This is something very fascinating... Creativity in a garden sounds like so me😅
I'll try what I could come up with this💞☺️
Oh I will be in for this one!! So glad I found it in my feed this morning!
The timing is great as i made a huge mess in the garden this Mothers Day weekend to prep our garden for planting.
I will have to look back a few years for my first pictures of the gsrden i blogged about before there was a #gardenhive!
Cant wait to share and meet a whole bunch of other gardeners across the globe. 🪴
Tag me for sure!
Fantastic and will do!
Looking forward to reading about it ☺️
This is really a great prompt I've been waiting for long time. I would definitely participate. Please I want to be tagged next month. I am @jude9
Oh I'm so sorry you aren't on the list!!
Oh! I hope by this time round I would be part of the list. I am very active here in the community too.
@jude9 I can only apologize and say how terrible I am at admin. I have added you now. So sorry.
Thanks so much!
Great mid-month challenge to spice things up. I’m always late for garden journal 🙈
Wow, looking for this wonderful challenge
Greetings to everyone! This is my entry:
https://peakd.com/hive-140635/@jude9/my-first-failure-vegetable-garden-by-jude9
The memory is always full of beautiful memories, here I share my participation, thanks and success to all.
https://peakd.com/hive-140635/@vicmito74/the-gardens-of-my-life-remembrances
Here is my entry for this new, awesome challenge!
Can I please be added to the tag list too? 💙
!PIZZA
$PIZZA slices delivered:
@fantagira(2/5) tipped @gardenhive
My entry https://peakd.com/hive-140635/@umirais/creative-garden--i-remember-the-first-time-i-tasted-rambutan-fruit-and-bananas-ripening-on-the-tree
I did it! Just a few minutes before the countdown expires :)
https://peakd.com/hive-140635/@fotostef/my-first-introduction-in-the-miracle-of-gardening
Love it - in the nick of time!