News Archive 2021
Sun, 26 Sept 2021 - Medway Road hosted a BBQ which all plotholders from both sites were welcome to attend. Thank you to everyone involved in making this happen, especially our two chefs!! I've heard wonderful feedback on the pumpkin pie too!!!
Best plot award was also presented to Gill Forbes on behalf of herself and Julia Upward, well done ladies.
Wed , 22 Sept 2021 - Marie Finnigan, Claire French, Janice Waghorn represented the Society at Seashells Children and Families Centre, as part of Big Green Week. They spoke to lots of people about growing your own and allotmenteering. Lots of seeds and pots were given away to get people, especially children started on their journey. Once again your support was amazing and we had a huge amount of fruit and vegetables to donate to users of the Centre, so from all the Committee thank you . A very special thanks to Dave & Mel Applegate, Dave Lipscombe and Stones Garden Centre https://stonesgardencentre.co.uk/ for supplying us with seeds, pots and compost.
We received a lovely thank you card from The Freedom Centre in Sheerness for our donation of fruit and vegetables.
A special thanks to all the plot holders of Richmond St/Nursery Close for donating this wonderful fruit and veg to The Freedom Centre, Sheerness
Winner of 2021 Best Plot Richmond St/Nursery Close, Paul Essam with Janice Waghorn, Show Secretary
Winner of Richmond St/Nursery Close Scarecrow Competition, Bernie Targar with Janice Waghorn, Show Secretary
Winner of Tallest Sunflower Competition Richmond St/Nursery Close, Kevin Tillett with Janice Waghorn, Show Secretary
Winner of Longest Runner Bean Competition Richmond St/Nursery Close, Dave Lipscombe with Janice Waghorn, Show Secretary
Winner of Heaviest Potato Competition Richmond St/Nursery Close, Sue & Mick Waller with Janice Waghorn, Show Secretary
The Best Plot Award 2021
The annual Silver Spade competition will be replaced by "The Best Plot" award. During July an independent judge choose one plot from each of our two sites to be awarded the honour of "The Best Plot" Richmond St/Nursery Close and "The Best Plot" Medway Road. New trophies/shields, instead of the old silver spades, will be presented to the winners which they will keep for a year.
Winner of Richmond St/Nursery Close Best Plot:
Paul Essam
Runner Up - Donald Love
Scarecrow Competition
Following the appearance of several scarecrows at both of our sites a fun competition will be held to award "The best Scarecrow" at both Richmond St/Nursery Close site and Medway Road site. Judging was carried out by an independent Judge. Winners will each receive a certificate and gift voucher that can be spent in one of our shops.
Winner of Richmond St/Nursery Close Scarecrow Competition: Bernie Targar
Other Competition Winners
Winner of Richmond St/Nursery Close Tallest Sunflower Competition: Kevin Tillett
Winner of Richmond St/Nursery Close Longest Runner Bean Competition: Dave Lipscombe
Winner of Richmond St/Nursery Close Heaviest Potato Competition: Sue and Mick Waller
A very special thanks to Pat Craig of Havills Funeral Service https://havills.org.uk/ for kindly sponsoring these competitions and the beautiful plaques given to the winners.