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Blooming Winners!
27 October
GARDENERS from the Leys triumphed at this year’s Oxford Allotment Competition, scooping top prizes and beating off tough competition from more than 70 other enthusiasts.
Local gardening legend Reg Curnock from the Kestrel Crescent Allotment Association in Blackbird Leys was the winner of the Challenge Trophy, the overall award for allotment holders.
Cliff Thomkins also from Kestrel Crescent took the over 70s Senior Award.
The competition, now in its third year, celebrates the achievement of Oxford’s allotment gardeners, and is organised jointly by the Oxford and District Federation of Allotment Associations and the Parks Department of the Oxford City Council.
The judges John Alcock and Mike Kent looked for plots that grow a wide range of vegetables all year round, together with seasonal soft fruit. The emphasis is strongly on the quality of the crops and the overall productivity of the plot, and not on having immaculate, manicured plots, although most of the winners do have very few weeds!...