Do you think you’ve got a winner? Maybe you’ve never been involved in a produce show ? Well, this is the event where you get to bring your longest carrot, heaviest pumpkin, biggest Dahlia bloom, most perfect runner beans, most oddly shaped vegetable, best tomatoes, apples etc, and enter them in a friendly competition with fellow gardeners and allotment holders. Some other classes include best cake (to a set recipe), pot of jam, photograph (to a theme of ‘Through the garden gate’), handicraft etc.
After many years since the last show (probably in the 1980s) we’re going to organise a flower and produce show on Saturday 11-September 2010. Please put the date in your diary! ACE, who have renovated the new Corn Exchange, are very keen to support this event as it will be a great thing not just for HRAA, but for the town itself.
The likely programme for the day will be as follows:
08:00 – 10:00 exhibitors register and display their entries
10:30 – 12:30 judging takes place, closed to exhibitors and public
12:30 formally opened to the public
14:30 prizes presented.
Intriguingly, we’ve been told a number of prize cups reside in a bank vault in St Ives, or possibly in someone’s attic, left over from the old association. Perhaps you know something about these? If so then please get in touch - urgently!
If you can help out on the day, we’ll need people to help set the tables up and check exhibits in the morning, in the afternoon to sell refreshments and clear up at the end. We also could do with donations for raffles prizes and sponsorship.
So if you can help out please get in touch with Richard (richard.weightman@ntlworld.com; 07771 844 261). It doesn't have to be for the whole day, just part of the team effort.
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