Deadline looms for garden recipe contest

The Success With Seed Recipe Contest, sponsored by Park Seed Company, is in full swing, making judges realize they have a huge challenge ahead of them. With over 100 entrants already, gardeners everywhere have been entering their recipes for appetizers, entrees, side dishes, and desserts. Gardeners have until February 15, 2008 to enter.
Gardeners can enter one or all categories as long as recipes incorporate at least one ingredient that can be grown using a Park Seed product. “Arugula, Basil, and Pesto Wedges,” “Summer in a Pie,” “Bacon-wrapped Green Beans,” and “Buttermint Shortcakes with Mixed Berry Compote and Sweet Lime Whip Cream” are some of the tasty recipes that have been entered into the contest.
To enter the Success with Seed Recipe Contest, please visit www.SuccessWithSeed.org and click the Submit Entries Here button. Other recipes from a previous contest can be viewed at http://www.parkseedmemories.com/2007/01/dont_go_into_th.html.
Complete rules are posted on the SuccessWithSeed.org site, which is sponsored by Park Seed Company, Wayside Gardens, and Jackson & Perkins.

The Park Seed Company is a privately held business and encompasses Park Seed, Wayside Gardens, and Park Seed Wholesale. The Park Seed/Wayside Gardens headquarters is located in Greenwood, South Carolina and boasts 9 acres of trial gardens that are open to the public.
The Park Seed Company (www.parkseed.com) has been providing innovative, top-quality gardening products to generations of American gardeners since 1868. Started in George W. Park’s home in Libonia, Pennsylvania, Park Seek Company has grown into one of the oldest, largest, and most beloved family-owned mail-order seed companies in America. With the motto “Your success and pleasure are more to Park than your money,” Park Seed has always been known not only for its superior seed and plants, but also for its helpful garden advice and friendly service.

Since 1916, Wayside Gardens (www.waysidegardens.com) has been the American gardener’s premier source for the newest, most unusual, and hardest-to-find plants from around the world. Wayside Gardens became part of the Park Seed family of brands in 1975. Today, Wayside remains true to founder J.J. Grulleman’s pledge to offer only the most superior plants exhibiting the highest levels of quality and horticultural excellence.