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The Society was formed
over 90 years ago to promote an interest in gardening in people of all ages in Bamford and the surrounding area.
There are currently about 60 members who pay £2.50 a year, which entitles them to 10% discount
on certain items at 3 local garden centres. The Society is supported by patrons who are thereby
members and also entitled to priority booking for any of its events.
The main event each year
is the Show in August which has approximately 120 classes covering fruit, vegetables, flowers, floral display, cookery, arts
and crafts. Other events are Floral Art demonstration, illustrated talks and
trips to Gardens.
SHOWING ADVICE
In general fruit and vegetables are judged on condition, uniformity, shape, size and
colour. Obviously small village shows are not judged as strictly as larger ones! Beetroot to be shown with 76mm tops and taproot intact.
Broad beans should have good coloured pods, long, straight, well filled
and seeds of good size.
Runner
beans should have long, straight, shapely, fresh pods of good colour with no outward sign of seed in the pod.
Cabbage to be shown with
76mm stem, fresh, solid head and unblemished, pest free heads and outer leaves.
Carrots should be well-grown specimens, fresh, firm, clean with no
disease, pest damage or splits, with a decided stump and taproot intact, with no side shoots or greening of top.
Foliage to be trimmed to 76mm.
Cauliflower
foliage to be neatly trimmed and root stems pruned to 50mm. Heads to have solid curds, white, free of pests
and other damage.
Courgettes
to be tender fruits of good uniform shape and colour with florets attached.
Cucumbers to be fresh, tenders fruits of good overall colour and bloom,
uniform in thickness and length with short handles.
Leeks to have firm, solid barrels with no sign of softness or splits, foliage turgid, pest and disease-free.
Fresh roots with root plate intact.
Lettuce
to be good-coloured, firm, fresh-leaved specimens of good size and shape, pest and damage free.
Onions to be well-ripened bulbs with unbroken skins, free from any
form of disease, no moisture under the skin, outside skin with no sign of blistering. To have thin necks,
free from ribbing, roots trimmed and stems neatly tied with natural raffia.
Peas to have long, fresh, well-filled pods with good bloom and colour, pest
and disease-free.
Potatoes all of
any variety, with clean, unbroken skins, disease and pest free, shallow eyes with no evidence of greening.
Rhubarb to have fresh, straight stalks of uniform length and weight.
Leaves trimmed to 40mm, good red colouring.
Tomatoes
ripe yet firm, well coloured, blemish free with fresh calyces attached.
Turnips showing no sign of age, pest and disease-free, with no evidence of multi taproots.
Vegetable marrows to be fresh, young, tender
yet not soft fruit.
Events for 2010
Friday, 9th July at 6.30 pm. A garden visit to Park Hall, Walton Back Lane, Chesterfield. Cost £6
including light refreshments. Own transport. Queries to Ruth Willis tel. 01433 651584 Saturday, 21st August Annual
Show at the Bamford Village Institute.
Friday, 1st October at 7.30pm in Moore Memorial Hall. Private
Plants and Gardens of Cheshire by Kevin Pratt
Friday, 26th
November at 7.30pm in Bamford Institute.
Christmas Floral Art Demonstration by Rosalind Walker
Watch this space for further details about events for 2010
Officials: Chairman : Ian
Orford Treasurer : Geraldine Thompson Show Secretary : Stefan Dziubak General Secretary :
Ruth Willis (Contact) Committee Members : Janni Hadfield, Angela
Spence and Don Johnson
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