Topic: Best allotment competition

[Tee Gee]

I have placed some pictures of our allotment site here ;http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,53533.0.html including the good bad and the ugly so that you can compare;

Alternatively use these links;

This is the entire site;

http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Slide%20Shows/Allotments/allotments.html

This is my own plot which is entered for the individual plot but I think plot 6 is better but we will have to wait and see.

Plus these are only two of many so even both of these can lose out.

http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Slide%20Shows/My%20Allotment/my%20allotment.html

and while I am at it this is my garden!

http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Slide%20Shows/The%20Garden/the%20garden.html


Edit;

Well they have been judged but won't get to know the result for some time yet!

But I will say this.................I'll never enter again  >:( it was a total farce,and thats not sour grapes!!

Four men came on site and walked from one end to the other and that was the plots as a whole judged!

Then they called onto my plot and stood at the top of it and counted my produce to see if I had twenty different fruit,flowers or veg and looked at the general tidyness of the plot.

They didn't go into either of my greenhouses where my more exotic and more difficult to grow subjects were. :(

When I approached them about this there reply was; they didn't need to because I had in excess of twenty things outdoors!, and to think I hung around all day to allow them access to my greenhouse...........never again! >:( >:(

I asked if the judge quality and the answer was NO! I could have blew up (but didn't)

As I saw it someone can enter twenty weedy diseased moth eaten items in a neat and regimented manner and potentially win. :(

Plus; I had refrained from harvesting my peas and beans so that they could be judged and weren't,  the peas will be like bullets now. >:(

So now you see why I won't be entering again.

But the worst thing of all is; we were working in the dark, we did not know the rules or how many we were competing against and I blame our secretary for that he should have advised us. :'(

By the way the secretary works plots 10 & 11 so if you look at these with the above rules even he could have won the 'best plot accolade'

There! I feel better now that I have got all that off my chest!

I think generally; we have a very neat and tidy site and are deserving of the best site trophy.

BTW I found out that the site is competing against another nine or ten sites and I was competing against another 31 individuals.

I will inform you of the result/s when they are know,

ps sorry for the gripe!

[saddad]

Gripe away TeeGee... I've shown round judges for "Derby in Bloom", Kitchen Garden mag, and "East Midlands in Bloom" so far this month... and to be fair to the Sec., it's not always clear what exactly they want... Good Luck anyway...  :)

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Phew that was a bit of a gripe wasn't it! we have a saying at home that goes "and another thing" it signals a rant  :) Can't blame you tho!

I think you probably hit the nail on the head with the comment about being in the dark. If you'd known what the criteria were.....  Mind you I would fancy being a judge - too many choices
I hope it wasn't all a lost cause, you obviously enjoy your allotment and gardening so much

Hope its a sunnier day for you tomorrow  :)

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