Community Services invite community residents to participate in the monthly Best Backyard competition.
One winner will receive a Garden-of-the-month certificate, free gardening materials, and gardening services to help further enhance their backyard.
The best backyard will be selected according to the following criteria:
- Lawn mowing and edging
- Plant trimming and pruning
- Weeding, fertilization, and soil cultivation
- Shrub staking and tying
- Overall appearance and creativity.
To participate, please email gardening@kaust.edu.sa with your name, KAUST ID number and residential address. All applications for participation must be submitted on or before the twenty-fifth (25) of each month. Judging will take place on the last day of the month; you do not have to be present at the time of judging, but please ensure access to your backyard is possible.
For further gardening tips and advice, look out for the May edition of the F&C Focus.
This competition is sponsored by Facilities & Community Services.
4 comments
If only I could get someone to address the issue of having 90% weeds in what is supposed to constitute grass I might have considered this. However, after many repeated attempts at trying to improve the quality of my ‘grass’ either by myself or with horticulture services who also appeared to have given up – I think I will just go for the cultivated ‘natural’ look
Hi Susan, I got some selective “weed and feed” from the UK and it has improved our grass – selectively killed the weeds and fed the grass. Don’t give up yet…
No points for sustainability then?
I’m curious how you would define “sustainability” in this context – I assume it’s all kind of relative here? 🙂
Perhaps a rock garden would score the most points in the “sustainability” category.