The word from the guys at the Little Veggie Patch was – Competition Time! Decorate your patch, measure your zucchinis, find a heap of caterpillars (the latter was, in fairness, more for the good of the plants than really for fun).

So we set to work, utilising newly required stakes for our sole Black Russian tomato plant as a makeshift ‘tree’. Finding a santa/spinning wheel/scare away birds feature, and in general giving our patch a bit of a ‘pimp’.

We were rather pleased with the result, it wasn’t hard to find our plot glinting in the sunlight. Take a look at some of our competition…