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Our allotments are having thier allotment show next week and my youngest is going to enter the miniature garden comp, we have never made one before has anyone here done one and do you have some tips ?  :)

A couple of tips, use a nice square washing bowl, to make it easy to carry. The most important is DO NOT GET ROPED IN TO JUDGE THEM!  There is nothing worse than all those tiny expectant children all smiling at you when you judge, and then all the irate parents of those who do not win.

I speak from experience.

My granddaughter did one some years ago and it was allotment style. She used cut down barbeque skewers for the runner bean poles and just got some  plants like chickweed and twisted them around. The veggies were some small london pride and some saxifragia put into rows like cabbages. She used some pig wort leaves for a bunch of iris. Rockery plants are the best to use cos they are mostly miniature. If you use different colours infor each row it looks quite authentic

Thanks for the tips you two  ;D

ACE don't worry a guy from another allotment site is judging  ;)

My 5 year old son won the school miniature garden competition back in June. The kids had all been doing a "green project" and the miniature garden competition was the culmination of the project. The children were each given a seed tray to turn into a miniature garden.

He had....
......a pond made from a cut-up freebie CD (they do cut quite easily with good scissors),
......a patch of grass (turf),
......lobelia/busy lizzies/other small flowering plants (and weeds!)
......a wooden shed made from a cardboard box with lolly sticks stuck on
......a greenhouse made from an upturned clear punnet with strips of paper stuck on to seperate the 'panes of glass'

and best of all, a miniature tomato plant "tree" in the corner, which is now bearing fruit despite STILL being in the seed tray with all the other plants!

Hope this has given you some ideas.

Good luck"!

Thats great news. Well done

We had the show a few weeks ago and Sam got first prize  :) :)

He did build a really good greenhouse for his mini garden and spent a long time getting everyting right.

Well done Sam! ;D ;D ;D
Neither of mine are interested in that sort of thing sadly... :'(