Tessa Dickey of Dayton and her large cabbage plant won this year's state cabbage contest spon-sored by Bonnie Plants.
Tessa Dickey of Dayton is this year's Nevada state winner of the National Bonnie Plants Cabbage Program.
Dickey, a third-grader at Riverview Elementary School, grew a "humongous cabbage," according to a news release, and was randomly selected as the winner by the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
Dickey will receive a $1,000 savings bond toward education from Bonnie Plants.
Each year, Bonnie Plants trucks free cabbage plants to third-grade classrooms whose teachers have signed up for the program at www.bonnieplants.com.
The students then grow the plants at home, some tipping the scales at 40 pounds.
Details/registration for 2013: www.bonnieplants.com.