Announcing the 2008 Whizbang Garden Cart Contest

Build A Whizbang Garden Cart And You’re Eligible to Win One of Four Gift Certificates to a Seed Company Catalog

Grand Prize: $100 gift certificate to Pinetree Garden Seeds (or another seed catalog of your choosing)
Second Prize: $50 gift certificate to Pinetree Garden Seeds (or another seed catalog of your choosing)
Third Prize $25 gift certificate to Pinetree Garden Seeds (or another seed catalog of your choosing)
Fourth Prize: $25 gift certificate to Pinetree Garden Seeds (or another seed catalog of your choosing)

Note: Pinetree Garden Seeds is currently the only seed company catalog that sells the Whizbang Garden Cart plan-book.

Here’s How to Enter The Contest

1. Build your own Whizbang Garden Cart using the plans found in the book, Anyone Can Build a Whizbang Garden Cart

2. Take a picture of your finished cart. The picture must show the cart in a natural setting (for example, a garden), and there must be at least one person in the picture.

3. Do one of the following:

a) Send the picture of your cart, along with your name and address , by postal mail to: Whizbang Books, P.O. Box 1117, Moravia, NY 13118

b) Post the picture of your cart, along with a short explanation about it to your blog, web site, or another internet location with its own linkable internet web address. Then e-mail the location to: whizbangbooks@bci.net The link must be viewable until at least the end of 2008.

Contest Deadline
All entries for the 2008 contest must be received by December 1st of 2008.

Here’s How Winners Will Be Chosen
Everyone who enters the contest will have their name written on a slip of paper and put into a box. On December 31st of 2008, Prize winners will be picked at random as follows:

The Grand Prize and Second Prize winners will be picked from a box containing the names of people who posted their cart picture with an explanation about it to the internet.

Then, the remaining names in that box will be added to the box of names from people who sent their photo through the mail. From these two combined groups, the Third Place and Fourth Place winners will be picked.

Announcing The Winners
Winners of the 2008 Whizbang Garden Cart Contest will be publicly announced on January first of 2009 at this blog and at The Deliberate Agrarian.

If you mail in your entry, you will receive notice of contest winners by mail in January of 2009. Winners will receive their prizes in January of 2009 (in plenty of time to order seeds, plants, or whatever you want for the 2009 planting season).

Other Important Details
<>Those who enter this contest by posting an internet photo and commentary will be listed (with a link to their photo) at this blog.

<>Any photos and comments received by mail may be used by Whizbang Books for marketing purposes.

<>This cart contest, and the picking of all winners, will be conducted in a fair and honest manner. However, there will be no second or third party verification of the process. In other words, if you enter the contest, you must trust us to do it fairly.

<>Whizbang Books reserves the right to substitute similar prizes of equal value for the prizes listed above.

<>Only one entry per person or family is allowed.

<>Entrants who do not win a prize in the 2008 Garden Cart contest may re-enter next year’s contest.

<>Any questions about this contest and the rules should be directed to Whizbang Books. (whizbangbooks@bci.net). Whizbang Books reserves the right to modify these contest rules to further clarify them if needed.

Announcing the 2007 Whizbang Garden Cart Winners

Well here it is January first of 2008 and it's time to announce the winners of the 2007 Whizbang Garden Cart Contest for 2007. I announced the contest HERE back in May.

There was only one entry before the deadline on December 1, 2007. Don & Caleb Underwood, a father and son team from Nebraska, built a Whizbang and entered it in the contest. You can read all about it HERE.

So Don & Caleb have not only made the first Whizbang Garden Cart, they win the First prize of a $100 gift certificate to Johnny's Seeds. I asked Don if he would rather have the gift certificate from another seed company. He requested Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. So Baker Creek it is!

Don & Caleb... I received notice from Baker Creek yesterday that your gift certificate has been sent. You should get it in the next day or so. Congratulations and here's wishing you a great year of gardening with your Whizbang Garden Cart!

Oh, one more thing Don, congratulations to you and Gina on your 13th wedding anniversary.

Hey everyone else......
Stay tuned for details about the 2008 Whizbang Garden Cart Contest. I'll be posting them here in the next few days.

Here's wishing you all a great year in 2008.

Herrick Kimball