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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.
Membership fee for 2011/12 is £3.00. Payable at the Annual Gardening Show on the 20th August 2011. This
entiles members to a 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 2011
Friday,
30th September
A talk by Kevin Pratt on Unusual Bulbs and the Bulb Planting Year. Moore Memorial Hall, Bamford at 7.30pm.
Friday, 25th November
Christmas
Floral Demonstration presented by Annette Butt - 7.30pm Bamford Village Institute.
Saturday, 20th August Annual
Show at the Bamford Village Institute.
Bamford Garden Show Winners 2011
Trophy Winners The
William Flemming Cup - Mr Terry Osgerby The
M Sharman Cup
- Mrs Sandra Orford The Firth Brown Cup
- Mrs Ruth Willis The Dorrie Platts memorial Salver -Mrs Margaret Gartside The
Willis Ollerenshaw Trophy - Mrs Angela Dziubak The Tindall
Sweet Pea Vase - Miss Mary Bloxham Book
Token £10 Most Points - Matthew Eyre in
the Children's Classes The Charles Swindells Trophy for - Matthew Eyre best
Exhibit in the Children's classes The Hart Dyke Trophy -Mrs
Christine Jackson The Mary Batty Salver
-Mrs Andrea Spurling The Les Harrison Trophy
-Mr Terry Osgerby The Goodlad Rose Bowl for
- Mrs Sandra Orford Most points in show The Jake Bronnum Trophy
- Mrs Sue Wilkes Best in Show (Photo of Barge) - Mrs Rosemary
Galloway Hanging Basket & Container The Stephen Sampson-Village Hanging Basket
Shield - Mrs Georgina Hodgson Business Hanging Basket/Floral Container Display Shield - Yorkshire
Bridge The James Carrington Trophy for Floral Container
- Mrs Georgina Hodgson 2011 Show Class Winners Terry Osgerby, Helen Eyre, Christine Jackson,
Sandra Orford, Geraldine Thompson, Richard Cowell, Alison Butlin, Joan Carrington Sue Wilkes, Andrea Spurling, Roger
Mather, Pam Hogg , Ruth Willis, Christine Osgerby, Mary Bloxham, Sheila Wainwright, Margaret Gartside, Angela Dziubak,
Janny Hadfield, Alan Bernau, Norah Midgley, Pat Chatburn, Janet Treacher, Anne Beckett, Heather Whitehouse, Jennie Ainsworth,
Jenny Mather, Lorna Wilson, Rosemary Galloway, David Holmes, Pat Chatburn and Dorothy Sheen Children's Section Skye
Wood, Luke Fell, Matthew Eyre, Georgina Frost, Beth Frost, Millie Hammer and Louise Eyre
The 2011 Bamford Garden Show took place at the Bamford Institute on the 20th August, and had a large number of
entries in each class throughout the sections of the show. The vegetable and flowers judges were very pleased with the
turnout in each of their sections and commented on it; only one class in the vegetable section had no entry this year.
We must thank the judge's assistants who record the prize winners in each class and help the judges to provide a sectional
winner for entry into the Best in show, which is awarded after all the judges, discuss with each other their section winners.
When the doors were opened to the public in the afternoon, the show was very well attended with a large number of people attending
the show from outside the village and surrounding area. The refreshments and cakes/scones went down very well
served once again by Mrs Sue Beckett assisted by Mrs Christine Jackson and others helpers and the Show raffle was again organised
by Mrs Joan Carrington and assisted by Mrs Elaine Johnson and other helpers. All the Trophies were presented
at the end of the show by Doctor Ian Hutchinson, a resident in Bamford for whom this was his first attendance at the show.
Doctor Hutchinson also agreed to assist with the Raffle prize draw of which there were 50 winners. The running
of the show associated with recording and entering all the class winners and each Trophy winner, was greatly assisted and
made much easier this year by the introduction of a new computer program provided by Mr Jason Hadfield.
The programme meant that all the individual prize winners and Trophy winners along with the prize money for each winner was
completed just after the general public were admitted into the show, many thanks Jason. The Bamford Gardening
Committee would also like to thank all the helpers who assisted in helping to move tables and set out the show rooms, along
with providing cakes and scones for the refreshments and all the Show participants without whom the show would not take place.
Officials: Chairman : Ian Orford Treasurer : Geraldine Thompson Show Secretary : Stefan
Dziubak General
Secretary : Ruth Willis (Contact) Committee Members : Janny Hadfield, Angela
Spence and Don Johnson
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