Vegetables, Fruit & Flowers -

Vegetables, Fruit & Flowers

Vegetables:

1. Gardener of the Year (see inset below)
2. Three Long Carrots
3. Three Short Carrots
4. Three Beetroot of the same cultivar
5. Small Bunch of Herbs in a vase approx. 65mm diameter
6. Three Onions from Sets
7. Three Onions from Seed
8. Five Spring Onions
10. Nine Shallots
11. Five White Potatoes
12. Five Coloured Potatoes
13. One Lettuce
14. One Table Marrow
15. Six Runner Beans
16. Six French or Dwarf Beans
17. One Longest Runner Bean
18. Six Ripe Tomatoes
20. Truss of Outdoor Tomatoes (ripe or unripe)
21. One Cucumber
22. Three Courgettes
24. Three Parsnips
25. Three Leeks
26. Five Chilli Peppers
28. Heaviest Marrow
29. Any vegetable for which there is no class specified
30. Five sticks of Rhubarb

Class 1 – Gardener of the Year

The entry will comprise one vase of 3 flowers and a selection of four items from classes 2 – 30. The flowers may be of any cultivar; the display is to be staged on a tray or black cloth not larger than 450 mm wide x 600 mm deep. Entry Fee £1, Prizes: 1st £10, 2nd £5

Exhibition Vegetables:
The following 5 classes are for gardeners who specialise in specimen vegetables

31. Three Carrots, 300mm or longer
32. Six Runner Beans
33. Five onions (round), 225g or over
34. Three Parsnips, 300mm or longer Tops trimmed to a max.75mm
35. Three Blanched Leeks, 350mm or longer between button & vee

Fruit:

41. A plate of Soft Fruit
42. Five Cooking Apples
43. Five Dessert Apples
44. Five Pears
45. Five Plums
46. Five of any other Fruit (not soft)

Flowers:

51. Three Dahlias of the same cultivar
53. Three Roses any cultivar
54. Three Stems of Rudbeckia
62. A Specimen Bloom (any kind)
63. Six Sweet Peas
64. Vase of not more than six stems of flowers not in classes 51-63
65. A Flowering Pot Plant
66. A Foliage Pot Plant
67. One or more Cactus or Succulent in Pot(s) in an area no larger than 300mm square

Junior: Under 7 years

82. Cress grown in an eggshell
83. Funniest shape fruit or vegetable (need not have been
home grown)

Junior: 7 – 11 years

85. Funniest shape fruit or vegetable (need not have been
home-grown)
86. Cress grown in a decorated shell

Junior: 12 – 16 years

92. Any home-grown vegetable
93. A Miniature Garden in a seed tray (max. 250 mm x 400 mm)

Exhibiting Advice

All items within an entry should be of the same size, shape and colour.
All flowers, fruit and vegetables must be grown by the exhibitor except where stated.
All vegetables should be clean. Display onions with roots trimmed and tops tied with raffia or twine on a bed of fine sand.
Root vegetables such as carrots and beetroot should have the foliage trimmed to 50 – 75 mm.
Fruit should be exhibited with stalk or calyces attached on a plate.
Display vases will be provided on the morning of Show Day for staging cut blooms.
Black cloths can be provided for Class 1, if required.
All pot plants to be in pots no larger than 180 mm diameter.
Entries in Classes 65 – 70 must have been in the exhibitor’s possession for not less than two months before Show Day.