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a vegetable garden competition

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    floralies said:
    Sounds as if the judges are going to make it up as they go along.
    Sounds like the american judicial system
    Devon.
  • WaterbutWaterbut Posts: 344
    A gardening competition on paper sounds like a baking competition when the judge does not taste the baking.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    And the cooks don't have or cook the ingredients.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Sounds like a ploy to get peoples' ideas for free.
    I had an art teacher who did that. He went through everyone's photos, picked the one he liked to 'demonstrate' to the class and then framed it up and sold it for loads. He is a well known local artist!!!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2023
    Don't talk to me about tutors whose PHD thesis contained large chunks of my Dissertation  >:)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Con artist? Psss artist?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • februarysgirlfebruarysgirl Posts: 835
    A competition on paper still means you can steal other people's ideas if you're that way inclined. Maybe not the other entrants but all you'd need to do is scour the internet for a design, make a diagram of it and submit it as your own. There's also no shortage of gardeners who post their planting schedules in blogs. It's ripe for abuse. I've always made a point of making it known that I got the basic design for my garden from Pinterest (although I have very different planting). I don't feel comfortable taking the credit for someone else's work. Even if someone was starting from scratch with a pen and paper, what looks good in black and white may not work in practice. Even if it is a design that works in practice, the gardener could make a right pig's ear of it. Without seeing the garden in real life, it's not possible to accurately judge what's best and what isn't.
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    When my son was doing his landscaping and horticulture course the students were invited to design the garden for a new Huf Haus being built nearby. My son's was accepted and then for some reason declined. He found out that they had copied his design! He did eventually get paid for it.
  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    edited August 2023
    februarysgirl 
    stealing some else Idea is possible 
    but Unlike since I gave those running contest copies of my historic database 
    vegetable garden plans which includes over 1000 from books, internet and
    newspaper.  
    here is a diagram from similar type contest 
    from uk in nov 11 1942 in  Staffordshire Newsletter
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Nice and topical, only 81 years old.
    Devon.
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