Thanks to everyone who entered last week's #creativegarden challenge!

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!

Here's last month's entries!

🍅 @riverflows wrote about gardening under a totalitarian dictatorship
🍅 @multifacetas wrote about her big problem with rats - even though she has a cat!
🍅 @owasco cleverly wrote about how the most joyful thing in the garden can be the absence of things, such as phones.
🍅 @fantagira wrote about the joy of the tiniest fuschia

🍅 @missjoycee wrote about vegetable gardening in schools - this is an initiative in the Phillipines you may have seen in other gardening posts on Hive! This post really details a hydroponic system. Bringing gardening to students must certainly be a joyful occupation! She writes:

Not only we have saved money, we have also enjoyed the benefits of eating healthy foods from the blessings that we harvest from our garden. Indeed, there's so much joy about a garden not only because of the anticipation it provides, but engaging our learners into hydroponics and vegetable gardening teaches them to be responsible, strategic, patient and optimistic- the qualities that they most need in order to be successful in life!

🍅 @selflessgem also wrote about a school garden
🍅 @ivycrafts gave great instructions for air layering

The Winner - June Creative Garden Journal Challenge

Unfortunately some fantastic posts didn't qualify as the rules asked for no more than three photos. That's quite the challenge, we understand! But sometimes less is more, right? Don't worry, we still upvoted and reblogged your post, but we just couldn't put you forth for some prizes, even though we wanted to! Also, make sure you explain what prompt you are writing about, because some didn't seem to suit either prompt at all.

This week the winner is @fantagira, who wins 75 percent beneficiary for this post! Congratulations!

🌿🌺The July Creative Garden Challenge🌷🌿

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! And don't forget, it doesn't even have to be based on fact - you could write a fictional story or a poem if you like! The trick is to consider the word 'creative'.The prompt is just a jumping off point.

Prompt 1: The thing I love most about the Hive Garden community is....

Prompt 2: My biggest garden disaster was....

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Guidelines

'Creative' is key! You could even do a freewrite! Imagine writing a political speech, a diary entry, a poem or a legal policy!
Original photos only - please no more than three.
Word count should be no more than 1200 words, including any reference to the challenge.
Tag someone you think might be interested in the challenge if you can.
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. Please check peakd.com for the countdown timer!

Prize

The winner will receive 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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