Reno student grows state's largest cabbage

A Reno student, Christopher Ristine, won a national plant company's competition for growing the largest cabbage in Nevada. Christopher is a student at Roy Gomm Elementary School. He will be accepting his prize this afternoon from a Bonnie Plant representative and the Nevada Department of Agriculture's Director, Dr. Tony Lesperance. The ceremony will be at Roy Gomm School at 2:45 p.m.

Bonnie Plants, an Alabama based, national supplier of field grown vegetable stock and seed, has a national competition for third graders annually. Bonnie's 3rd Grade Cabbage Program distributes free cabbage plants to third-grade classrooms whose teachers sign up to participate. This year, approximately 1,200,000 students nationwide will be planting and taking care of their own cabbage plants. Students with the biggest cabbage in each state receive a $1,000 scholarship.