#### What a week in the HIve Garden! It was fantastic to see some wonderful entries in the #creativegarden monthly challenge, and I don't know about you, but I can't wait to see next week's winners! I hope you find time to drop a vote on one of the four below - it's super easy to log in with your posting key and [simply click on the author](https://leofinance.io/threads/view/gardenhive/re-leothreads-qzuakbv6) you felt wrote the finest gardening post this week. 

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##### First of all, congratulations to last week's winner @housecatharsia ! You have been set a 60 percent beneficiary of this post which will be rewarded next week - well deserved! **EDIT - I'll have to send it over manually as I forgot to set the beneficiaries! Du'oh! 

<sup>Thanks to the awesome team at Leo Finance, we’re really excited to be continue an author spotlight program here at Hive Garden! This initiative is not just about our community but the whole of HIVE - so go check out some of the other #topauthors polls on Leo Threads and vote there as well. The beneficiaries not only support the people blogging in the community and the community itself through reward.app and hefty votes via @blocktrades, but also goes toward Twitter marketing - a gold mine for getting YOUR blog out there as well as marketing Hive itself! So your vote MATTERS - by getting involved, YOU get involved with supporting great content on HIVE and marketing it too!</sup>

The Author of the Week will receive:

- A share of the rewards of these announcement posts,awarded via Reward.app the following week (some of Hive’s biggest accounts will be voting)
- Inclusion in a digest that will be heavily marketed on Web2 (e.g. Twitter, Reddit)

## ✅ [Vote for this week’s author by heading to the poll HERE!](https://leofinance.io/threads/view/gardenhive/re-leothreads-qzuakbv6)
 
The Hive community has the final say in who wins. Below are the four finalists for Week 6. Voting closes on Sunday evening. Winner will be announced in next week’s poll post.

#### Finalists for Week 9

This week the four selected posts are all responses to the #creativegarden challenge - it's a nice way to reward and celebrate the effort Hive Garden folk go to support the community. 

🌸@owasco | A beautiful memory of her garden loving Aunt | [The Summer of Love](https://peakd.com/hive-140635/@owasco/the-summer-of-love)
🌸@proto26 | Watch out for hornets! | [Early Garden Memories](https://peakd.com/creativegarden/@proto26/early-garden-memories)
🌸@buckaroobaby | Never stick your fingers in a goat's mouth!  | [Goat Got Your Tongue](https://peakd.com/hive-140635/@buckaroobaby/goat-got-your-tongue)
🌸@alt3r | A childhood spent in the dirt is a childhood well spent | [Faded Garden Memories](https://peakd.com/hive-140635/@alt3r/faded-garden-memories) 

### 👉 [Head to the poll here to vote!](https://leofinance.io/threads/view/gardenhive/re-leothreads-qzuakbv6)
 
## How to Vote

🌿 Make sure you’re signed in to Leo Threads. It uses Hive Keychain.
🌿 Go to the linked poll thread above and cast a vote
🌿 The poll will refresh and show you some results. Note: your vote may not be reflected immediately.
 
# Hive Garden selects finalists who: 

- have well presented posts with clear photographs & formatting
- are in English (you may follow the English content with your own language if you choose)
- explore garden related themes. These might include permacullture techniques, planning your summer garden, a visit to a botanical garden, indoor plants, how to make compost, and much more. 
 
We are selecting for *quality* so whilst we will try to include as many of you as possible over the week, you'll see some authors again and again simply because they're GOOD! See these as an example for what you can do in your own writing! 

### ✅ [Please make sure you cast your vote here](https://leofinance.io/threads/view/gardenhive/re-leothreads-qzuakbv6)!

<sup>@plantstoplanks @jude9 @sofs-su @nikv @owasco @umirais @buckaroobaby @farm-mom @thebigsweed @polesinns @andrastia @multifacetas @amygoodrich @jenthoughts @fanyokami @isdarmady @anafae @tanjakolader @yolithy24 @andrastia @minismallholding @goldenoakfarm @sanjeevm @nainaztengra @rem-steem @almi @leoplaw @denmarkguy @akiponn @dodovietnam @fermentedphil @galenkp @ifarmgirl
@ciadanmea @kennyroy @simplymike @dodovietnam @babeltrips @trangbaby @kaelci @shanibeer @proto26 @ifarmgirl @artemislives @edprivat @meesterboom @momogrow @antnn @luckylaica @blingit @traisto @fotostef @tydynrain @hindavi @steven-patrick @vibeof100monkeys @samstonehill @anttn @friendlymoose @jacksonizer @ciadanmea @tuocchu @gertu @artywink @dora381 @stortebeker @zakludick @maytom @juwell11 @chuch @maxdevalue @travoved @sunscape @alt3r @ninahaskin, @housecatharsia @promisedland @chidiadi65</sup>

</sup>The reward distribution for this post is as follows: 60 percent for the winner of last week's poll, 15 percent to the community, 5 percent to the author of this post for their time and effort, and 20 percent for @reward.app. The liquid rewards via @reward.app then go to @weeklytops to use for Hive marketing.</sup>


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