Last year's grand prize winner, Jennifer Love of Kentucky, entered her artistically painted minivan.
Yard signs were popular. Kelli Ploeger of Tennessee won herself some garden equipment for her simple sign made from salvaged materials.
Although not entered in the competition, KGI's Roger Doiron also made a sign for his own yard (below) which was a local success and made the evening news (watch the YouTube video here). For those interested, this sign is available for download as a pdf file and can be copied onto a disc and printed out at your local copy center. Please note that this a large sign and a large file (3 megabytes).
Entries from young gardeners (in body or at heart) are encouraged. A couple years back, Eliot Morrison, a youthful artist and animator from California, sent us this amazing animated short which is sure to inspire:
An entertaining and/or informative narrated garden tour is an idea. Tell us what's special about you and your garden. Inspire us. Make us laugh. Make us cry. Teach us and the world something we didn't know. This professionally-filmed, elaborate garden tour video posted on YouTube might give you some ideas for a simpler, shorter version of your own.
We love food-themed videos. Tell us why your berries, melons, or home-grown peaches are the absolute best in the world and what you do with them. Other kitchen gardeners make good home-made salsa or pesto. Tell us in pictures, film, song, or dance why yours rocks.
We also love food-for-thought. This is your chance to reach a large national and even international audience with your creativity and ideas. We put together this simple youtube video together on a shoestring budget and a tattered shoestring at that. What story do you have to tell?