Produce show 2016 schedule

Notes
What are the Judges looking for?
First read the instructions in this leaflet carefully. Make sure that you provide the right number of examples, use cellophane rather than metal lids on preserves and score your short bread but don’t cut it, and so on.
If you are exhibiting fruit and vegetables and are bit unclear what the judges are looking for or how to present your produce, you might like to look at the guidance on the Internet produced for another show. Not all the details are relevant to our show but the principles for presenting your produce are similar.
www.lichfield-allotments.co.uk/annualshow3.htm
The Recipe for the Toffee Apple Cake (Class 43) can be found on the
Gardening Club page on the Village Website – www.helmdon.com. This class is restricted to men and boys but all other baking classes are open to all including children over 12.
Bread entries should not be made in a bread machine. Specialty loaves are a freestyle class and can include flavoured and shaped breads including bread styles from other countries.
The exotic and unusual vegetable class is for vegetable types not included in the main classes and for varieties of the main classes that are unusual such as black carrots and round courgettes.
Youth Competition
Biscuits for decorating for the younger age group can be bought in or home baked. Potato heads should be based on real potatoes but may be decorated with bought materials.
Flapjacks and shortbread biscuits should be home made and baked by the entrants who are encouraged to be imaginative in the shape and presentation of their produce.
A separate competition for children involving the growing and presentation of flowers will be run in conjunction with Helmdon School and the Acorns. The results will be displayed at the show.
HELMDON FLOWER
AND PRODUCE SHOW
Helmdon Flower and
Produce Show
SATURDAY 27 AUGUST 2016
TO BE HELD IN
THE READING ROOM, HELMDON
2.30pm until 4.00pm
Helmdon Gardening Club is delighted to announce its 7th annual Flower and Produce Show.
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Supports Katherine House Hospice and Northants Air
Ambulance.
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Something for everybody in the village to enjoy.
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New Classes include bread baking and unusual or exotic vegetables
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Separate bake-off challenge for Men
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Classes for Children
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Teas and Cakes
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Raffle
Please Support the Show!
Thank You – The Show Committee
Sponsored by:
A W Duncombe and Son

How to Enter
Completed entry and/or sponsorship forms should be delivered or posted to one of the following people:
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Peter Payne, [address removed] (Tel:[phone number removed])
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Rex Jessett, [address removed] (Tel: [phone number removed])
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Celia Terrey [address removed] (tel: [phone number removed] )
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Pip Ward, [address removed] (tel: [phone number removed])
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By email to [email address removed] and pay on the day
Additional entry forms are available from the Reading Room and the
Helmdon web site
Entries: 40p per class
(Free for under 12s)
Prizes for Youth Classes
SIMPLE RULES
1. Entry is open to residents of Helmdon, and Falcutt, past and present pupils of Helmdon School and Acorns and members of all
Helmdon based organisations.
2. All entry forms to be received not later than Wednesday 15 June for classes 1-6 and Tuesday 23 August for the remaining classes.
3. All exhibits to be staged between 9 and 10.30 a.m. on the day of the show, for judging to commence at 11.00 a.m.
4. The Judges will be independent and their decision will be final.
5. No exhibits to be removed before 3.30pm. All exhibits not donated for sale must be removed by 4.00pm.
6. All entries to be grown on exhibitor’s own garden or allotment, or made in his/her own home.
7. Entries limited to one per entrant per class.
8. The organisers will not be responsible for any loss or damage to any exhibit although all reasonable care will be taken.
9. Prizes, cups and certificates to be collected on the day.
Helmdon Flower and Produce Show 2016
Entry Form
One form per person
Name ………………………………………………………………….
Age (Youth entries only) ……………….
Address……………………………………………………………..
Classes entered ………………………………………………..
Entry Fees………………………………………
Sponsorship…………………………………..
Total enclosed……………………………….
Helmdon Flower and Produce Show 2016
Entry Form
One form per person
Name ………………………………………………………………….
Age (Youth entries only) ……………….
Address……………………………………………………………..
Classes entered ………………………………………………..
Entry Fees………………………………………
Sponsorship…………………………………..
Total enclosed……………………………….

YOUTH SECTION
7 YEARS AND UNDER
+ 46. A plate of decorated biscuits
47. A Funny Potato Head
8 TO 12 YEARS
48. Six Flap Jacks
49. Six Shortbread biscuits (any shape).
A separate flower growing competition will be organised in conjunction with Helmdon
School and Helmdon Acorns.
PRIZES
At the end of the show the cups, prizes and certificates will be presented at 3.45pm.
PRODUCE SALE
Following the presentation there will be a sale of any exhibits that entrants wish to donate. Any exhibits not collected by
4.00pm will be assumed to have been donated for sale unless otherwise stated.
GARDENS
(to be judged on Sat 18 June)
1. Garden Bed or Border
2. Cottage Garden
3. Patio Display
4. Vegetable Plot
5. Hanging Basket or wall trough display
6. Water Feature (can be large or small)
VEGETABLES
7. Five Potatoes – White
8. Five Potatoes – Coloured
9. Runner Beans – eight pods
10.Six French Beans
11.Longest Runner Bean
12.Three Onion Sets
13.Six Shallots
14.Three Carrots
15.Three Courgettes
16.Three Beetroot with Foliage
17.Heaviest Marrow
18.One Cucumber
19.Collection of any four types of Vegetable (3 or 4 examples of each)
20.Collection of Herbs (four varieties, named)
21. An exotic or unusual vegetable (3 examples)

FRUIT
HOME PRODUCE
22. Three Cooking Apples
23. Three Eating Apples
24. Six Salad Tomatoes
25. Six Cherry Tomatoes
26. Six Plum Tomatoes
27. A Plate of Fruit
28. Six Plums
FLOWERS
29. One Rose (any variety) in a Vase
30. One pot plant –Flowering (up to 9 inch pot)
31. Vase of Flowers – all one variety
32. An arrangement of mixed Garden Flowers
Nam vestibulum dolor quis libero.
(max width 12 inches)
33. Flower arrangement in an unusual container (max size 12 inches )
34 A Jar of Jam
35 A Jar of Jelly
36 A Jar of Marmalade
37 A Jar of Chutney
38 A Jar of Lemon Curd
39 A Victoria Sandwich
(jam filled, 7”-8” tin)
40 A Wholemeal Loaf Of Bread
41 A Speciality Loaf Of Bread
42 A Round of Shortbread
43 A Plate of 6 Cheese Scones
44 A Toffee Apple Cake (Men)
45 A Lemon Drizzle Cake
46 6 Fresh Eggs
See Back Page for further instructions