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It's been a difficult year, for all of us. Our gardens, allotments and outdoor spaces have been more important than ever, providing a refuge, a welcome distraction, and a chance to enjoy the comfort that plants and nature provide.
Like us, you're probably already planning how you can make next year's garden even better, more productive and more beautiful.
Now your grand designs for 2021 can win you your choice of gardening prize - and hopefully inspire us all to even bigger and better gardening success in the coming year!
The best gardening aspiration will win your choice of gorgeous gardening prize, both with a value of around £90. You can choose either the Avid Allotmenteer pack, which includes some of our best-selling grow-your-own favourites:
- Japanese Razor Hoe
- Express Hoe
- Waterfall 5L watering can in British Racing Green
- ‘The Allotmenteer’ enamel mug
Or you might plump for the Gorgeous Gardener pack, which will help you nurture your own personal green oasis in style:
- Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball trowel
- Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball hand fork
- Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball precision secateur
- Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball greenhouse and indoor watering can in blue
THIS GIVEAWAY HAS NOW CLOSED
How to enter
All you need to do to enter is to leave a comment on this blog, briefly outlining your plans for your garden in 2021. Scroll to the bottom of this page to comment (your email address won't be published). You’ll also need to be a subscriber to our monthly email newsletter to be a winner, so if you're not already signed up, fill in your email address in the grey band right at the bottom of this page. You can unsubscribe at any time if you don’t enjoy our monthly updates.
Your plans for your 2021 garden might be simple - ours is to plant more white flowers in the wildlife bed, to keep the all-day buffet going after dark so the moths can enjoy it too. You may want to grow more of your own fruit and veg next year, or branch out into new and unusual crops. Perhaps you have your eye on trying some heritage varieties of familiar favourites.
Or you might have grander plans - a new greenhouse, perhaps, to accommodate the ever-growing plant population in your garden. Or perhaps grander still, if you're lucky enough to have the space to play with - maybe a wildlife pond, landscaping a terrace on a gradient, or planting a copse of native trees... Whatever gardening vision you see in your mind's eye, we'd love to hear about it!
The small print
Gardening grand designs, December 2020
This giveaway is open to UK residents over the age of 18 only. No purchase necessary. No cash alternative is available. The winner will be chosen on the basis of the most inspiring gardening plans for 2021 and the judges’ decision will be final. One winner will receive one (1) pack of gardening tools from Burgon & Ball, either the Avid Allotmenteer of the Gorgeous Gardener prize as outlined above. Prize draw opens at 00:01 on 28/12/2020 and closes at 23:59 on 03/01/2021. Winner will be contacted by Burgon & Ball shortly after the closing date. Employees of Burgon & Ball and their family members aren’t eligible to win. One entry per person; entries created by a bot or a service that automatically enters participants are not eligible to win. We draw your attention to our privacy policy here. Please note that due to the current exceptional circumstances arising from the Covid-19 virus and associated global supply chain issues, it may take longer than the usual 28 days to despatch the prize to the winner. Where necessary, an alternative tools of equal or greater value may be substituted where a tool is unavailable.
this is the year when I am determined to do everything right. I have a new greenhouse waiting to be erected and the old one will be recycled by giving it to a young couple just starting their new garden. I shall clean all my utensils and pots thoroughly and use only new compost. I will sew early and protect seedlings from frost, using seeds which I have saved and labelled and dated properly. I will share any not needed seedlings with friends and neighbours so they can have free plants and so help wildlife to thrive in more places by planting flowers which are bee and insect friendly. If I do all these things I will get a really happy satisfied feeling which will brighten my life, and that of others, in 2021
Gorgeous Gardener pack Please!
My 2021 plans are continuing to plant for bees & pollinators. I got a Mason bee ‘house’ for Xmas & get my babies delivered in spring! So lots of plants ready for their arrival. Last year the Tithonia & Dahlia were a big hit, so more of those from seed & tubers & an ever growing list of bee friendly plants.
My garden is very small so I plan on going ‘up’ with climbers & hanging bits & pieces.
Hopefully I’ll get some Strawberry, Pineberry & Framberry plants to hang & some more pots to fill in any usable space left!
Ask me again next week & I’ll have more ideas!!
My plans for next year include repurposing an area previously dug out and bricked for a pond. Due to a change of plan it’s now going to be turned into a sunken patio area with tiered raised rockery around it on 2 sides. I have planted some spring bulbs in it already, but plan to add lots of rockery plants, ferns and grasses to give it all year round interest and colour. The lawn is also going to be replaced and some screening shrubs and climbers placed along the side fencing panel to disguise it. I think I am going to go for bold splashes of Hot Pinks Orange, Yellow and Lime in terms of planting colours as these will complement the lime green painted summerhouse.
I have an allotment. I plan to use every square inch to grow delicious vegetables and fruit. I use the produce I grow for cooking. I make delicious soups from traditional well known recipes and also my own recipes. I make jams and chutneys too. I have started last year making shrubs. I experimented with rhubarb and raspberry last year and hope to extend that this year. I use every available space so that my allotment is jam packed with healthy vegetables. I also grow radish and salad leaves. They are great all summer and this year I successfully grew winter radish. I thoroughly enjoy my allotment and gardening adventures.
I plan to create a wildlife pond at the allotment and build a hedgehog feeding station for the garden in the hope that the hog that visited us this year will return.