Potato bash 2016

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Welcome to the Transition Worcester Potato Bash 2016.
This is your chance to take part in a fun potato growing competition, see just how many spuds you can grow for yourself, and you might even win one of two cash prizes!

PICK UP YOUR POTATO AT THE OLD NORTH STABLES OR THE LANDSDOWNE ALLOTMENT SHOP FOR JUST £1


The rules:

  • Entry is £1
  • £10 cash prize for the heaviest total yield from a single seed potato (supplied by Transition Worcester)
  • £5 cash prize for the heaviest single grown potato (seed potato supplied by Transition Worcester)

What should I do?

  1. Pay £1 to enter the competition.
  2. Pick your potato from the authorised Transition Worcester Potato Bash potato supplier
  3. Take your potato home and ‘chit’ it.
  4. When you want to, get a pot and compost, and plant your potato.
  5. Note that you MUST grow your potato plant in a pot or container (no bigger than 30 litres*) and not in the open ground. The growing medium you use is up to you.
  6. Look after your potato plant.
  7. Bring your potato plant, in its pot, to the Transition Worcester stall at the Worcester Flower Show, Gheluvelt Park on Sunday 14th August, by 1pm at the latest.

*As a guide: 30 Litres = 31cm x 31cm x 31cm (approx) or a cylinder 30cm diameter and 42cm depth.

Plant Swap

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The Transition Worcester Plant Swap will be taking place on Saturday 7th May from 11am to 3pm.

Join us at the Old North Stables for veg seedlings, advice and to chat with like minded people. Have a tour of the site, where you’ll see the initial progress on the Forest Garden project, as well as the floating beehives…. that’s right beehives that can float! Also, while you’re there why not pick up your official Potato Bash competition spud!

We’ll have the usual range of veg seedlings (tomatoes, peppers, beans etc), and fruit bushes available, and of course the things that we don’t know about that other people will bring on the day.