SPADEWORK BEING DONE FOR BRIGG GARDEN OF THE YEAR COMPETITION CHANGES

Green-fingered Brigg Blog followers will be interested to learn that the town's long-established annual best-kept gardens competition looks set to undergo changes.
Brigg Town Council, which has organised the competition to find the top gardens in Brigg for many years, is considering significant alterations.
Preliminary judging has been carried out by councillors walking round at the streets in the town to observe front gardens and draw up a shortlist for final judging.
That is set to change. Instead, townsfolk will be invited to nominate their own gardens and/or those of neighbours.
The Town Council - holding its monthly meeting in the Angel Suite - agreed revised arrangements for the competition. That decision followed some debate.
Coun Ann Eardley suggested that some people would be unwilling to nominate themselves.
But Coun Rob  Waltham felt the public, rather than councillors touring the town, should decide the entries.
Coun Mike Campion admitted he had never been "the greatest fan" of walking round streets to judge the gardens. But a North Lincolnshire Council decision meant there would be  only nine Brigg town councillors from next May rather than the current 19 "to do the task" of preliminary judging.
Town Clerk Dinah Lilley said she hoped there would be time to include details of the  garden competition's arrangements in the next issue of Brigg Matters Magazine.
Brigg Matters is distributed free to households and includes a section submitted by the Town Council which includes information of interest to the general public.
No mention was made during this debate about changing the presentation of awards to the best-kept gardens and allotments.
This has become an enjoyable September event held on a Saturday morning in the Angel Suite, hosted by the Town Mayor, with coffee served and a raffle held.
Brigg has two sets of allotments - on Redcombe Lane/Atherton Way and off Grammar School Road. They are managed by the Town Council and rented to local people keen to grow their own veg.
PICTURED: A garden in Brigg that made it through to a previous year's final.