Crop of new prizes for Littlehampton’s garden champs

GREEN fingers should be flexed, and eagle eyes peeled, as the search begins for Littlehampton’s gardening champions.

The town council’s annual gardens and allotments competition has been launched, with two new categories reflecting the growing trend for people to cultivate their own vegetables.

The best kitchen garden includes anything from a mini vegetable patch in a garden to pots of vegetables on a patio, while the best new allotment is for those who have taken up their plots since January, 2011.

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And to encourage children to take part, a new “tallest sunflower” category will earn the winner a prize worth up to £50. The town council has supplied seeds to schools in the town to share out among their pupils. To qualify for judging, the sunflower plants need to be more than 2m high.

Nominations can be made for someone else, or gardeners can enter themselves in the competition, but only those living in the BN17 postcode area qualify. There is no charge to enter – see story below for more details.

Allotments which used to be automatically entered in the competition will not be included this year, unless they are entered by their holder or nominated by someone else.

The competition was launched at the main competition sponsor Fairhaven Nurseries, in Toddington Lane, with town mayor Alan Gammon, allotments sub-committee chairman Joyce Bowyer, representatives of sponsors F. A. Holland & Sons, Littlehampton Traders’ Partnership, Littlehampton Companions’ Club, Littlehampton Allotments and Leisure Gardens Association, and Fairhaven Nurseries owners Dianne and Don Smith.

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