**Announcing the winners of the 🌺 Hive Community Garden Journal Challenge for July. Thanks to all participants.**

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## Smoking Hot
During July, the weather wasn't really that great here, but it seems like we're more than making up for that in August. It has been smoking hot here for the last week, and it looks like we've got more of that to come. 

The garden doesn't mind.... as long as I take the time to water everything at night. Watering takes me about an hour using the hose. I actually like it a lot. It's too hot to spend time in the garden during the day, and the watering time at night gives me a chance to clear my head.

Anyway, time to announce the winners for the July edition of the 🌺 Hive Community Garden Journal Challenge





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## The Contestants

A big thanks to everyone who participated this time and showed us their July update. 
@sirenahippie, @gertu, @amberyooper, @sayee, @enjar, @proto26, @viking-ventures, @plantstoplanks, @allyson19, @fotostef, @artemislives,  it is because of you that I can keep this contest alive.



You can find all the entries in the comments section of the original contest post ***[here](https://peakd.com/homesteading/@simplymike/hive-community-garden-journal-challenge-july)***.

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### If you love your garden - no matter how big or how small it is - I probably won’t have to tell you that you are all winners.
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If you’re a bit like me you know how easy instant happiness can be: a flower that blooms, a delicious, homegrown fruit to pick, finding a ladybug walking around... They don’t come any better than that, right?!


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## The Winners

All of the posts were great! Your gardens look amazing!!

This month's winners: 

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<center><h2>@amberyooper's
<a href="https://peakd.com/gardening/@amberyooper/garden-journal-end-of-july-home-garden-report">Garden Journal, End of July Home Garden Report</a></h2></center>

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<center><h2>@viking-ventures's
<a href="https://peakd.com/hive-114308/@viking-ventures/garden-journal-july-2020-homesteading">Garden Journal - July 2020 - Homesteading</a></h2></center>


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Congratulations to the winners!
I've sent both of you 10 HIVE.

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As usual, I'm also sending 2 Hive to 2 random winners.

The random name picker selected @sayee and @proto26.

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## Keep Posting Garden Updates 
This was the July edition of the #gardenjournal challenge. Thanks to everyone who joined.

<h3>I hope to see all of you again in about 2 or 3 weeks, to show me how your gardens are doing!</h3>

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***TIP**: If you want to make sure you don't miss out, you can add the #gardenjournal tag to Ginabot on Discord. She'll then notify you whenever a new post with the tag is published.*

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