Each year, green-fingered gardeners spend hours trying to grow the biggest pumpkins or the brightest beetroot with the hopes winning a prize or two in the Wanaka A&P Show's home-grown vegetable competition.
For brothers-in-law Owen Perkins, from Millers Flat, and Keith Syme, of Queenstown, the competition is a bit more personal.
The two men have been battling each other in the competition for some years.
Each year when it comes time to plant the seeds for the competition, each has the other in mind.
''Oh heck, yes - when you're sowing them you're thinking now these are for the show so I've got to do everything right,'' Mr Syme said.