All set for a blooming success!
Have you caught the gardening bug ? Gardening is more popular than ever these days, and the Festival will again be offering the chance to show off the best of your home-grown flowers, fruit and veg. Last year’s show was a resounding success and Barton under Needwood Gardening Guild will again be holding their Late Summer Show as part of the Family Festival.
The show will be held on Saturday 2nd September in St James’s churchyard.
The show is free to enter and open to both Guild members and non-members and there is a special section for children
Only one entry per person for each schedule item will be accepted.
Gardening Guild members will be there to help you stage exhibits should you require it
Judging will take place shortly after 2pm.
Don’t forget to come
and collect your entries by 4.15 pm.
Do come along and join in with this village event. Just turn up on the day with your entries.
Any queries to Sheila Allcock – call 07931 970096 or email fmansell@hotmail.com
The Schedule of Categories is:
FLOWERS AND PLANTS:
1. A single rose
2. Three stems of roses
3. Three
dahlias
4. Six fuchsia heads in a container
5. A single
cut flower
6. A vase of any single variety of cut flowers
7. A vase of three different varieties of cut flowers.
8. A
vase of perennial flowers.
9. Any pot plant
10. Any pot
plant in flower
VEGETABLES:
1. Five tomatoes
2 Five cherry or small variety of tomato
3. One cucumber
4. Three potatoes
5. Three runner
beans
6. The longest runner bean
7. A pair of beetroot
8. A pair of courgettes
9. One squash
10. Three different
culinary herbs tied in a bunch
FRUIT:
1. Two desert apples
2. Two cooking apples
3. Two pears
4. Five berries
5. Any other fruit not listed in the schedule
CHILDREN’S SECTION:
To be judged in two age groups: up to seven years, and eight to eleven years old.
A. A miniature garden in a seed tray
B. “This is something I
grew myself”
C. An animal made from vegetables and/or fruit
See you there !
You can download the schedule here:
Summer
Schedule (MS Word format)
Summer Schedule
(PDF format)