Bamford Village

Bamford & District Gardening Society

Bamford & District Gardening Society

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





 Updated 15/10/2011