Topic: UKTV calls all allotment gardeners!

[sally_cinnamon]

Check this out guys!

http://www.uktvstylegardens.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/standardItem.index/aid/577691/.shtml

UKTV Style Gardens in association with the National Allotment Gardens Trust is looking for Britain's best allotment site. In a new and independent competition designed to reward environmentally and community friendly sites, UKTV is looking for nine inspiring allotment sites to feature in a ten-part series presented by gardening personality Chris Collins.

Each of the featured sites will receive a prize to the value of £500. The winning site will receive a prize of their choosing to the value of £2,000. Each programme will feature the best site from each of the nine Regional Development Agency areas as selected by the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners.

How to enter:
To enter this exciting new competition, please send your details and at least ten photographs of your site to UKTV Competition, The National Allotment Gardens Trust, PO Pox 1448, Marston, Oxford )X3 3AY. Please include, on a maximum of two sides of A4, an explaination of how your site addresses each of the four judging criteria outlined below and details about how you would use the £2,000 prize money to develop your site.

[caroline7758]

I look forward to seeing the series but wouldn't bother entering ours! :(

[saddad]

Heard about this from two sources on Sunday... one was our chairman. Hope to hear more at the Agm tomorrow!
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[redimp]

I look forward to seeing the series but wouldn't bother entering ours! :(

With you - and it also depends on what they are looking for as I doubt mine will be suitable even in a few years as I intend it to be fully functional and not at all "unnecessarily" pretty.  Not having raised beds as such, more raised mounds (and even these will get totally dug over once every four years to accommodate spuds) and my only flowers will be companions, so will never be the tidiest, prettiest allotment in existence.  Hopefully though it will be a healthy, organic, environmentally friendly food growing machine.

[saddad]

Your last line fits their requirements Redclanger... it is the whole site they are interested in... do any other plotholders fit the other catagories?
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[redimp]

The award winners in Kitchen Garden all seemed to have pristine well ordered pretty plots with raised beds :-\

[kitten]

Go on red you know you want to! It seems to me the description of your plot would fit the criteria they're looking for really well? Good luck! kitten x

[redimp]

Ooh - I might enter in two years then because I will have fully rotated once and everything should just be getting to be tickity-boo  ;D

[manicscousers]

are they looking for the best allotment/duckpond ?

[redimp]

Think you may win an award for hardest toil against adversity and most determination not to give up :)

[Meg]

Thinks to herself why do I go to the allotment for peace and quiet! I really don't want the whole country to see my best asset whilst I am bending down. As it is we are getting too popular. Life I might have to brush my hair or sum at to play up to the camera's. Not for me then and I would def gag anybody who suggested it too.

[kt.]

Chairman of our committee agreed to apply. Took 15 photos of various aspects of our site today. Gonna write the 2 pages on the criteria tomorrow. Email everything by wednesday to enter our site. Will keep you posted ::)

[saddad]

See you there KT
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[louise stella]

I suppose in a way "the best" - is open to interpretation really!

Is "the best" - nuked-to-within-an-inch-of-it's-life-with-no-weeds!
or
Is "the best" one that is clear of all chemicals and full of good wholesome veggies - but scruffy round the edges with a few weeds here and there?

I know what i'd prefer!

Louisewomble