FLOWER AND PRODUCE SHOW
08 Jul 2021
Check out the categories in the Annual Flower and Produce Show leaflet - and then get growing, baking, crafting and painting!
There are some amazing categories this year.
You can download the programme HERE
HOW IT WORKS
Browse the schedule and decide what to enter. You can enter as many or as few as you like. And you don’t need to be an expert, everyone is welcome and encouraged to take part.
Complete the entry form at the back of this Schedule. Copies are fine if you run out of room! Drop your entries with the fee (just 30p per entry for adults and free for 16&under) to one of the homes listed by the closing date.
Bring your entries to the Mechanics Institute between 7:30 and 9:30am on Show Day. There will be people there to show you what to do.
Come back at 1:30pm to see who has won, look at all the entries and enjoy some tea & cake.
Raffle, trophies and auction take place at 4:15.
The organising committee is planning to put on the show with appropriate safety precautions in place as per government guidance at the time so we can all enjoy our annual celebration of our growing and creative efforts.
Questions and offers of help in any shape or size:
Deb 07775 673 573
We look forward to welcoming you!
List of Categories
Division One: Vegetables & Fruit
- Top Tray Award – 3 types of vegetable (see Prizes)
- Kitching Trophy: 4 types of vegetable (see Prizes)
- Three onions under 8oz (from seed, dressed)
- Three onions over 8oz (from seed, dressed)
- Three onions (from sets, dressed)
- Six shallots
- Two trench leeks
- Two parsnips (tops off)
- Three carrots (trimmed to 3in)
- Four potatoes - white
- Four potatoes - coloured
- One cucumber
- Four tomatoes
- Six cherry tomatoes
- Six pods of peas (inc stalk)
- Six kidney beans (inc stalk)
- Four broad beans (inc stalk)
- Six runner beans (inc stalk)
- One cabbage (3” stalk)
- Three beetroot, round (tops on)
- One Mediterranean vegetable
- One courgette (7” and under)
- One marrow (not more than 15”)
- One marrow (large)
- One vegetable and one flower
- One vegetable and one flower (ladies only)
- Any vegetable not listed
- Three cooking apples
- Three dessert apples
- Three stoned fruit (1 variety)
- Dish of soft fruit
***FUNNY-SHAPED FRUIT OR VEGETABLE*** ENTER ON THE DAY
No-one knows when the Funny Veg Fairy will visit.
If you are lucky this year bring your wonky fruit or veg 7:30-9:30 on show day
Division Two: Flowers & Plants
Pot plants having been in the care of the exhibitor for min 6 months
- Top Vase Award: Vase of mixed flowers (see notes under Prizes)
- Three vases of flowers (1 kind per vase)
- Three decorative dahlias
- Three pompom dahlias
- Three cactus dahlias
- Three stems of spray chrysanthemum
- One gladioli stem
- Three asters
- Six sweet peas
- One vase of annuals (3 kinds)
- One vase of perennials (3 kinds)
- One bowl of roses
- Six pansy heads (on a board)
- One rose
- One vase of flowers – any one kind not scheduled
- One vase of mixed herbs
- One fuschia
- One flowering pot plant
- One foliage plant (not a cactus)
- One hosta leaf
- One cactus or succulent
- One potted geranium
Division Three: Flower Arranging
- A kitchen garden
- Corsage
- Button hole
- An arrangement of garden flowers in a recycled container
- Miniature garden
Division Four: Arts and Crafts
- Painting in watercolour or gouache
- Painting in oil or acrylic
- Artwork in any other medium
- A handknitted item
- An item of crochet
- An item of soft craft
- An item of hard craft (e.g. wood, metal, ceramics…)
- A handmade accessory
- A sewn item
- An item of papercraft
Division Five: Photography
Very popular!
limit of 2 entries per class, unmounted, max 7x5”
- Water
- Celebration
- Handles
Division Six: Preserves
- One jar of jam (raspberry)
- One jar of jam (any other variety)
- One jar of marmalade (any variety)
- One jar of lemon cheese (curd)
- One jar of jelly (any variety)
- One jar of chutney (any variety)
Division Seven: Produce
- Handmade Loaf (any variety)
- Handmade Gluten-free Loaf (any variety)
- Four Cheese Scones
- Four brownies
- One round of shortbread
- Four flapjacks
- Four pieces of tiffin
- One apple pie
- One Victoria Sponge (raspberry jam & dusted with sugar)
- One Beetroot and Chocolate cake (recipe below)
- Your ‘Bake-Off’ Showstopper
- One savoury pasty
- One bottle of soft drink
- One bottle of alcoholic drink
- Six eggs
- Bakewell Tart or Tarts (Gentleman Only)
Set recipe for Class 87: Beetroot and Chocolate Cake
Ingredients:
175g plain flour 3 beaten eggs
10g baking powder 225g cooked beetroot
75g cocoa 200g olive oil 225g caster sugar
Dry ingredients: Sift flour and cocoa, add sugar.
Wet ingredients: Mash/blend beetroot, add eggs and oil and mix.
Put wet ingredients in dry ingredients and mix.
Pour into 20cm cake tin and bake at 180⁰C for approximately 35 minutes.
Division Eight: Record Breakers
- Heaviest Onion
- Heaviest Marrow
- Heaviest Potato
- Longest Carrot
- Longest Bean
- Tallest Sunflower* (in situ)
- Largest Sunflower head
Division Nine: Children, 16 and under
- Picture (Rainbows) – Age 4 & under
- Picture (In My Wildest Dreams) – Reception, Yr1 & Yr2
- Picture (In My Wildest Dreams) – Yr3 & Yr4
- Picture (In My Wildest Dreams) – Yr5 & Yr6
- Four animal shape biscuits – Age 8 & under
- Four animal shape biscuits – Age 9 to16
- Tallest Sunflower* (in situ) – Age 16 & under
- Three decorated stones - Age 8 & under
- Three decorated stones - Age 9 to16
- A piece of tie-dye – Age 8 & under
- A piece of tie-dye – Age 9 to16
- Photograph (Animals) - Age 8 & under
- Photograph (Selfie) - Age 9 to16
- Anything else you have grown or made (0-16)
*Tallest sunflowers 101& 107: a member of the committee will be in touch to measure
Children 16&under are also encouraged to enter the adult categories,
with
a £5 voucher to be won for the best 16&U entry in each Adult Division
Did you know…?
Our annual Show started as a Marrow Competition in the pub way back in 1982