[John]

THIS IS COMPETITION NUMBER 3

TITLE:  "A Vegetable Plot"

PRIZE:  "1001 Ways to be a Better Gardener" by Pippa Greenwood, signed by the author (More Info)


The final Result after 8 days of voting


1st - Weessy with 11 vote

2nd - Jannie with 10 vote

3rd - Jack Russel with 8 votes

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The simple rules:

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• You can enter one photograph into the competition which should be no more than 640 pixels wide.
• It can be your plot or someone elses, on an allotment or a home garden - just so long as it's a vegetable plot.
• It should be accompanied by a short title and some description.  
• At the closing date we will add a poll for members to vote on and the most popular photo will be the winner.
• The winner will receive a prize as listed above and the winning photo will be placed in a permanent photo gallery along with the best runners up.
• Closing Date for Entries: Saturday 21st June 2008 when voting will be allowed by all members for one week.
  
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  Full rules can be found Here
  
  Help Posting Photographs
  
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  Title:  Living in Close Quarters
  
   Description: The garden where everyone has to get along! (if only the world could do that...)
  
  
   

  
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  Title: My bit of heaven
  
  Description: Looking across the garden towards the vegatable plot
  
  
  

  
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  Title: SAFETY THIRST
  
  Description: OH utilised empties to prevent injury from canes.
  
  
  

  
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  Title : OMG
  
  Description : Is it too late to start growing stuff this year?
  
  

  
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  Too Normal
  
  Description: Won't be a winner. No raised beds, no pretties, all in rows, but it's fully functional and mine - all mine!!
  
  
   

  
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  Title: My little piece of paradise (complete with munty frame ;) )
  
  Description:- Ok. It's a mess. But it's MY mess and i love it :D
  
  
  

  
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  Title:Some of it looks good enough to eat
  
  

  
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  Title:little bit of Wales.
  
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  Title: The Apprentice
  
  description: Keeping the garlic regimented.
  
  
   

  
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  Title: A work in progress
  
  Description: Watching them veggies grow as you work makes it all worth while :wink:
  
  
  

  
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  Title:The Drying Green.
  
  Description:For four flats which I have commandeered. Coloured Chard seeds planted yesterday........looking forward to seeing the colours.
  
  
  

  
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  Title: My Veggies
  
  Description First year's growth and very proud!
  
  
  

  
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  Title: PLOT 98
  
  
  

  
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  Title: Corner to corner.
  
  Description: It's small but all mine since 29th March.
  
  
  

  
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  Title: DIY SOS - My raised bed!
  
  Description This is the bed in the part of the garden that was 'given' to be as a birthday present when i was a kid to grow sunflowers as nothing else would grow. So i've built this raised bed... and associated paraphernalia.
  
  
  

  
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  Title: Henry, 4 years old
  
  Description: very pleased with the first little plants in HIS patch  :wink:
  
  
  

  
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  Title: Plot on the landscape!
  
  Desvription@ A plot for the whole family, Neil, Caroline, Jack(5) and Abi(4)
  
  
  

  
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  Title: Square Foot Garden
  Description: The veg has to fight it out with the flowers
  
  
  

  
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  Title: My chill-out zone.
  
  Description: This is my veggie plot, part of a shared family garden.
  I took over the top part in Jan.
  It was overgrown with an old artichoke bed, bindweed, couch grass and rampant grapevine.
  I did loads of digging, but I'm not any slimmer!
  
  
  

  
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  Title: My new Plot 144
  
  Description: I want to be a veggie plot one day :cry:
  
  
  

  
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  Title: Beginners Plot
  
  Description: Only had this, my first plot since November 2007 and it has took a lot of hard work to get it this far as I suffer from ME.
  
  
  

  
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  Title: Cabbages & err.................scarecrows!!!!
  
  descriptiom Amongst the pots, b/beans, r/beans, onions, caulis, beetroot, peas & sweetcorn.
  Ran out of space, the toms, carrots, parsnips, dwarf beans & lettuce are all in pots scattered about the garden.  Oh, how I wish I had a lottie.
  
  
  

  
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  Title:Look at Mums Garden
  
  Description: And look at dad's weeds!!!
  
  
  

  
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  Title: A Vegetable Plot - Luckily not mine
  
  Description:  Untended plot but much appreciated by the local wild life !
  
  
  

  
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  Title:  Sshhh magical lettuces
  
  Description:  told you I had fairies in the garden  :D
  
  
  

  
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  Title: My half
  
  Description: A work in progress:
  
  
  

  
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  Title: Work in progress from April to May 2008
  
  Description: Exactly one year ago I brought a patch of dense laurel which I fenced off. The trees were grubbed out, and 6 tonnes of stable manure were dug in before the winter frosts. The entry above shows the development of my first crops over a the four week period from late April to the end of May.
  
  
  

  
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  Title: From Kitchen Windowsill.... to Garden.... to Table. Just Purfik. :wink:
  
  
   

  
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[jennyb]

Well having just taken the latest batch of photos this morning i thought i may as well post my entry now,  plus i'm a bit busy between now and the closing date.

Title:  Living in Close Quarters




Description:  The garden where everyone has to get along! (if only the world could do that...)

[peapod]

lovely jenny, it looks so decorative as well as productive

 

[jennyb]

thank you peapod - squirrel has knocked over some of my fencing tho :x   will have to go stand it up again!

[Alex 98]

I'd enter but posting pics is still not working for me :oops:  :cry:

Alex 98

[Alex 98]

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[Alex 98]

OK so it worked, all I need to do now is get it the right way up

Thanks for your help

More to come

Alex 98

[Chas]

Hello Alex, looks like we are about the same level as in computer skills! How do you import a pic?

Chas. :cry:

[Alex 98]

Herbs and sweet peas. Dill. sorrel, chervil and french parsley


Red Kuri, butternut and Q's


Lettuce, french, and slow growing beetroot.


Onions and shallots and carrots under the cloche


Pease and french beans just in.


Loads of flowers for pollinating and cutting, ask Mrs Smith


Spuds being smothered by a giant thistle


Another thistle, for the birds...apparently

Alex 98

[Aunt Sally]

OK - ALEX  :roll:

I have to point out that although we a thrilled to see all your wonderful pictures - you can only enter ONE into the competition  

Which one dear  :?:    

[Alex 98]

Righto.

Maybe none of these, I think there may be a better one

I'll let you know asap

Glad you like the pics

Thanks for the tech lesson

Alex 98

[Aunt Sally]

Post all those in GYO Alex.  

Post your selected picture here and PM me. I'll then delete the others so that we don't get confused  :roll:

[Alex 98]

Confused?  Not me.

What day is it?

[Aunt Sally]

Confused?  Not me.

What day is it?

 :roll:

[yorky]

Title My bit of heaven

Description Looking across the garden towards the vegatable plot