Women gardeners challenged the gender balance of power at the Driffield Spellowgate Allotments awards.
Three of the six award winners were female, the first time there has been an even split in this traditionally male-dominated pastime.
Kellythorpe businessman Keith Coulman won the top prize, the Taylor Megginson Challenge Cup, after finishing second last year.
He pipped new entrant, Brian Woodmansey, who won the Geoff Sims Memorial Cup for finishing second and the Jim Lowe Memorial Trophy for being the best-placed senior citizen. Dick Parrott finished third, securing the Spellowgate Challenge Cup in the process.
Then the female force kicked in. Kim Dervey finished fourth for the second successive year and was joined this year by Katy Saunders who won the Newcomers Shield - and finished sixth overall - less than four months after taking up her allotment and another newcomer, Beryl Fallows, who took the Most Improved award after transforming the unkempt plot she inherited in double-quick time.
Spellowgate Allotment Association secretary Bill Walker said: There has been a real trend towards more families and more women enjoying allotments.
“This is reflected in the awards this year. All the winners deserve special praise this year for achieving outstanding results despite the miserable weather.”