Above Picture: Austin with his award and pictures of his giant vegetable! Middle Top Picture: Presentation of Awards: Austin was awarded a plaque and a $1000.00 Savings Bond for his college education from the Bonnie Plant Company. Austin is a fourth grader. He raised his cabbage between his third and fourth grade school years.		Above Picture: Austin with his special guests for the awards presentation.  Austin's parents and grandparents were present on this special occasion, as well as Mr. Chapman, Principal of SES and Mrs. Weekley, Assistant Superintendent of Roane County Schools. Middle Bottom Picture: Austin with Mr. Gus R. Douglass, West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture

Austin is one of the state winners for the Bonnie Plant Company contest.  This is a state-wide voluntary activity for students.  A cabbage plant is given for the student to take home, plant, and cultivate.  Austin planted his small cabbage plant last April and harvested it in middle August.  It measured 31 pounds and 52 inches round.

Austin reports, "These are the things I did to make it grow."

1. I left it in the container it came in for a couple days and gave it artificial light using a lamp.

2. I talked to it.

3. I gave it fertilizer.

4. I made sure to keep it watered.

5. I pulled the weeds around it to give it plenty of room to grow.

6. I put a fence around it.

7. I tried to keep the bugs off of it.

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