The Weekly #CreativeGarden Challenge! (The Big One) 15th October

Every week we put out a creative garden challenge for you to win some prizes, but once a month, around LPUD, the prize is a little bigger. Scroll down for this week's prompt!

Last Week's Entries

Hive account@multifacetas wrote about the struggles of having a garden when you are renting and have to move. Hive account@mrenglish made us laugh with the notion that a duck must be sacrificed for water spirits to have easy access to water. His diagram showed exactly why the plantains were placed in the swampy area. Hive account@umirais also included a garden drawing. It's quite amazing how a sketch can help us visualise the 'why' and 'how' of a garden here on Hive.

I also loved the drawing of Hive account@cool08's cassava plant!

And it was really interesting to read about why growing food is so important in Nigeria:

The hardships in Nigeria gathered momentum between 2012 and 2023, the new Nigerian president, Tinubu removed the controversial petroleum subsidy in June 2023. Since then everything has failed, with the high cost of living. Thus bringing economic hardships to Nigerians. This also affected the cost of farm produce, This made many families including myself resort to a mini farm, any piece of land left unattended to was turned into a farm. When the government has laughed off the awkward plight of the people. Since this period I have been engaging in mixed cropping. Hive account@adeade123

This week's winner

Hive account@mrenglish's post was very interesting and I loved his superstition about the duck sacrifice, but also the passage of water across his land. Thanks for joining in, Hive account@mrenglish - you win 2 HIVE and 75 percent of the post rewards for this post.

Keep Scrolling for the Prompt - But Don't forget To Follow the Guidelines!

The trick is to write CREATIVELY and BE creative. For example:

• Showcase a creative response to a problem in your garden
• Write a story of any genre that features a garden somewhere in the story
• Write a creative non fiction post about a garden memory
• Draw, paint, sculpt, write a poem
• No more than 800 words
• Publish in the community

Rules

• Posts should contain only ONE image. This is a writing challenge not a photo challenge. Sometimes you might need more than one to tell your story though, so we can be flexible!
• Use #creativegarden as your first tag
• Refer back to this challenge at the END of your post
• Reblog this if you can
• Comment on other people's posts in the Hive Garden community.
• Check the COUNTDOWN timer on Peakd.com - no late entries

This is a great opportunity for those in the northern hemisphere who might be shutting down their gardens for winter, and still want to write on #gardening topics.

🐝🌷🍄🍃🍎This Week's Prompt🌿🌼🌱🍓

Write on EITHER the image, the prompt, or BOTH.

Prompt:

A Scientist and Poet meet in a Garden

^{Formed of various flowers, this personification cartoon of a female botanist, painted by George Spratt, was pasted into a recently discovered copy of The English Flora. The title below the sketch, “La Botaniste,” was possibly a self-reference made by Isabella Anne Allen, the book’s presumed owner.}

This Month's Prize

5 Hive plus 75 percent of the post rewards

Don't forget to follow the community rules - and most of all, have fun!

^{The HIVE GARDEN COMMUNITY supports gardening, homesteading, cannabis growers, permaculture and other garden or botanical related content. Delegations to the curation account, Hive account@gardenhive, are welcome! Find our community here!}