Author Topic: Allotment show. (Read 7420 times)

legendaryone · « **on:** August 12, 2007, 19:44:23 »

We had our allotment show this afternoon and me and my youngest were lucky enough to win with our exhibits :D

I won with my cucumber, heaviest pumpkin and a parsnip wine i made and i came second in squash with Bianco lungi.

Sam won first with the tallest sunflower at 8 foot 5 and he won the miniture garden category :D

It was a really good day and the weather was great :)

saddad · « **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2007, 20:15:11 »

Glad you had a good day and well done...
;D

lorna · « **Reply #2 on:** August 12, 2007, 20:20:22 »

What brilliant results for you and your son, well done, many congratulations.
Lorna.

Robert_Brenchley · « **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2007, 22:13:07 »

Our was due to be held today, but it was cancelled as half the site had been underwater, and a lot of people, including me, had lost all their potential exhibits.

kt. · « **Reply #4 on:** August 12, 2007, 22:57:52 »

WOW!. I am obviously doing something wrong as none of my foods grow that big. They are eaten before any show comes around mind you.

How did you grow your pumpkin to that size? What variety is it?

Mrs Ava · « **Reply #5 on:** August 12, 2007, 23:26:17 »

Woohoo! Congrats. Our next village show is in September and I have to remember not to keep eating things but try to leave them in the ground ready for the show!

legendaryone · « **Reply #6 on:** August 13, 2007, 07:29:23 »

Our allotment soil is very stoney so we don't have much trouble with flooding as it drains away vey quickly :)
I did leave the cucumber to grow larger we normally eat them a lot smaller than the one in the photo.
The pumpkin is the smallest of three large ones i have, it is from seed from a normal pumpkin we bought at halloween. I grow it the greenhouse then put it out in May and pollinated it myself. The plant it is from seems to be dying though so i was lucky i could use the pumpkin. They weighed it on some bathroom scales and it weighed 15 pounds ;D

Tee Gee · « **Reply #7 on:** August 13, 2007, 12:48:56 »

Ah! I remember the days when I showed my produce, I got a right buzz from it.

I pleased to see you that you had some success but even more pleased that you have involved your family as well, after all these are our successors.

It reminds me of this quotation;

Treat the earth well:
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.

Taoist Proverb

I gave up showing in 1997/8 for health reasons (it wasn't good for my blood pressure) this is a sign of how things were for me at the time.

ps if you think taking the picture is a bit egotistical its not meant to be, it was taken for insurance purposes i.e. the trophies were put away in a black bin liner after the picture was taken until such times as they were required to be returned.

I did this because at the time there were a number of house break ins in our area and I didn't want to take the chance that all the history that was on those trophies might be lost.

Like in Roberts area I noticed that the village show I visit each year has had to be canceled because of the exceptionally bad season most people have had.

I really miss the camaraderie that there was with all the competitors so hopefully you and you youngest aspire to greater things.

Just think of it this way; it is something to hold your attention for much of the year, you get the buzz from competing (win or lose) and you can eat your produce after it.

What more can you want!

Gardengirl · « **Reply #8 on:** August 13, 2007, 13:13:48 »

Congratulations on your prizes legendaryone :) Also to Sam, who has done extremely well. We have quite a few youngsters putting in entries at our village shows, but tell Sam that none of them are as good as his. That is the best I have seen, love the greenhouse :D

legendaryone · « **Reply #9 on:** August 14, 2007, 13:36:40 »

Tee Gee your photo is fab, can you remember what they were for ? I would love to know.

Quote from: Gardengirl on August 13, 2007, 13:13:48

Congratulations on your prizes legendaryone :) Also to Sam, who has done extremely well. We have quite a few youngsters putting in entries at our village shows, but tell Sam that none of them are as good as his. That is the best I have seen, love the greenhouse :D

Sam was chuffed to bits to read your kind words Gardengirl, he spent a long time and lots of cellotape making the greenhouse :)

Tee Gee · « **Reply #10 on:** August 14, 2007, 20:50:45 »

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can you remember what they were for ? I would love to know.

It was a long time ago but this is the answer so far as I can recall;

1) Overall Flower champion (local show)
2) Most points in Dahlia classes (national rules)
3) NEDA shield Winner of Dahlia championship (national rules)
4) Most points in the multi vase Dahlias (national rules)
5) Overall Veg champion (local show)
6) Veg champion (national rules)
7) Most points in entire show i.e.Chrysanthemums, Dahlias & Veg (national rules)
8] Onion champion (local show)

I also won the National Dahlia society Silver & Bronze medals which are not shown in the picture.

Overall a pretty successful year I think.

To give you an idea of the stuff I showed here are a few pictures prior to the show (apologies for quality no digital cameras in those days)

Some of the competition'

My championship exhibit;

Some of the Dahlias I entered ready for transporting

More plus Chrysants & Veg

The Gladioli;

The carrots incidentally the box is 24" long

So let Sam see these and tell him I hope he continues with his showing and with a bit effort he could better these.

legendaryone · « **Reply #11 on:** August 14, 2007, 21:08:46 »

An outstanding array of photos there TeeGee, thank you for sharing :)

I will show Sam and his older brother, i also take my grandson down to the plot every weekday morning to help me out and he instinctively knows to pick red strawberries only which i thought was amazing :) :) He is only 16 months old !

manicscousers · « **Reply #12 on:** August 14, 2007, 21:15:43 »

congratulations to you both, legendaryone..I think the minature garden is really lovely ;D

GREENWIZARD · « **Reply #13 on:** August 15, 2007, 10:16:08 »

well done L's family :)
TG can't see your pics :(

Tee Gee · « **Reply #14 on:** August 15, 2007, 12:56:35 »

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TG can't see your pics

Don't know why ??? I can and so it would seem can the others, perhaps an IT wizard on the forums might be able to help

legendaryone · « **Reply #15 on:** August 15, 2007, 13:58:32 »

I did notice earlier today that they were very slow to load and one had the red cross, but all is fine now ;)

tilts · « **Reply #16 on:** August 15, 2007, 22:53:19 »

well done Legendaryone, we have our Allotment show this Saturday. Just hope the current wind and rain down here won't batter everything down.

legendaryone · « **Reply #17 on:** August 16, 2007, 08:48:43 »

I wish you luck tilts, we were rather fortunate with the weather, one small shower 10 mins before we started :)

Tin Shed · « **Reply #18 on:** August 16, 2007, 22:46:27 »

We had our show on Saturday, but the occasional bouts of rain spoilt it a bit. Put loads of entries in and did well, but not up to TeeGee's standard. Proudest of my figs - they even got into the local paper, unfortunately with a picture of me as well!

legendaryone · « **Reply #19 on:** August 17, 2007, 07:46:30 »

Well done Tin Shed :) In the paper as well very nice :)

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Author Topic: Allotment show. (Read 7420 times)