The Bucket Growing Competition 2024

No, not a competition in which we harvest buckets grown from bucket seeds.

I mean:



Yes, I mean The Stamford Hill Estate Community Garden's annual bucket growing competition!

We started it yesterday and we invite you all to participate too.


Judgement Day will be in early October, weather permitting.

Here are the rules for those of you new to the bucket challenges:


All crops must be grown in 14L buckets or in any container holding up to 14L of compost/growing medium.

There are no restrictions on which cultivar of crop seed you can use.

There are also no restrictions on the growing medium - whether you choose to use compost, garden soil, sand, straw, shredded paper or other custom mixtures is all up to you.

Fertilizers, whether it be type, strength or dosage is all up to you.

The Spud in A Bucket Competition
The aim is to produce quantity according to weight - to grow as much as possible from just one seed potato in a bucket.

The Tri-carrot Challenge
Demonstrate that you can produce a uniform quality crop.
Produce three carrots, each at least 7cm in length, cleaned and with the green tops neatly trimmed to 25mm. The main taproots should be unbroken.
Remember, the main criteria is uniformity - it will not be judged on anything else.


Why not join in with the fun and earn potentially massive kudos and bragging rights on the way.

Since you will all be my direct competitors, I won't wish any of you good luck. In fact, I hope you all fail miserably, muhahaha!

 

Here are the previous winning entries in case you were wondering:





All perfectly achievable by the ordinary person (well, maybe not the huge potato yield).

 

For those of you following along.




The potatoes and carrots are all pretty much at this stage of growth - that's only if you've been keeping up with the watering and feeding.