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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.
I’m hoping to improve our vegetable growing! We have a very small garden but last year my husband made a large trug for strawberries and we were gifted lots of large pots. We ended up growing potatoes, courgettes, tomatoes and cucamelons. My children (3yrs/10yrs) adored it. Rooting around upturned pots to see who could grab the most potatoes at harvest time, cheeky bites of ripe strawberries and cucamelons when they went past, picking tomatoes for summer salads and cooking the green ones up for chutney over winter. It was glorious to see. So this year the plans are to grow as many strange and wonderful veggies as possible to open their eyes further. Elephant garlic, golden courgettes, rainbow carrots and Romanesco broccoli are all on the list. We are very much beginners and making lots of mistakes along the way – but it seems like thats all part of it and the joy it brings to our family is fabulous.
I’m hoping to branch out a little and enhance what I did in 2020. During the lockdown, I manged to use all the plastic pots I’d accumulated over the past few years as well as the scrap wood (making raised beds /planters/garden storage) and faulty items from working in a garden centre.
I’ve already planted my onion and garlic bulbs, have some alstromeria bare roots in pots and some plug plants in the greenhouses which I’m hoping will make it through the winter. There’s new perennials I planted in November in the boarders, around 10 pots and troughs of daffodils and tulips as well as 5 bulb lasagne tubs which I’ve big hopes of. Come early spring I’m looking to plant tomatoes, potatoes, spinach and leeks using mainly free seeds collected from many magazines over the last year. As I’m on a fairly tight budget I’ll be looking to reuse, recycle and hopefully waste nothing that is useful (if unwanted), creating a unique blend of colour which 4 years ago was totally bare of any blooms.
I’m hoping to branch out a little and enhance what I did in 2020. During the lockdown, I manged to use all the plastic pots I’d accumulated over the past few years as well as the scrap wood (making raised beds /planters/garden storage) and faulty items from working in a garden centre.
I’ve already planted my onion and garlic bulbs, have some alstromeria bare roots in pots and some plug plants in the greenhouses which I’m hoping will make it through the winter. There’s new perennials I planted in November in the boarders, around 10 pots and troughs of daffodils and tulips as well as 5 bulb lasagne tubs which I’ve big hopes of. Come early spring I’m looking to plant tomatoes, potatoes, spinach and leeks using mainly free seeds collected from many magazines over the last year. As I’m on a fairly tight budget I’ll be looking to reuse, recycle and hopefully waste nothing that is useful (if unwanted), creating a unique blend of colour which 4 years ago was totally bare of any blooms.
Starting soon, as soon as my body allows (suffering from an unknown, currently undiagnosed condition to date), I would very much like to find the energy and strength to finish building my camomile couch!!
In my mind the soil pile sitting ready will be sculpted in to a large curvaceous couch with a luscious circular lawn carpeting the foot of this secluded seating site. It will constitute to camomile and thyme. A soft, fluffy and flowing feel of Stipa tennuisima planted in the lead up to this special spot of seclusion. The sweet scent of thyme, perfume of calming camomile cascading, the electric hues of Lavendulas as a backdrop leading up towards dappled pinks and whites of erigegeron flowing through the grounds. On the raised and upper tier, a back drop of wildflowers and a pathway gaining access to raised beds for vegetable and fruiting specimens. The need for comfort for me, my boys and friendly visitors, wild or indifferent, in a hopeful happier and safe new year. It’s these thoughts and hopes that give me strength to know that tomorrow will be a better day. ☘️
I have been growing on a collection of plants, all supposedly deer, rabbit, grazer resistant for my garden. In the middle of fields we have the most wonderful wildlife roaming around us and they come together here in the safety of our boundaries. Between them they can devastate any planting in hours if it is unprotected. My plan for 2021 is to provide a garden environment that supports that varied wildlife not make its survival anymore difficult. Peonies, Iris, Hosta, Agapanthus, Crocosmia, Ballota, Kniphofia, Hellebores and Campanula have all proved resilient so 2021 is my big year for planting out on masse! Wish us luck!