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Halloween 2024

Our 2024 Halloween event included pumpkin carving competitions, costumes, pumpkin parade and lantern festival.

2024 Horticultural Show – 24 August

24 August 2024 marked our annual horticultural show. Thanks to Rosa and the Events Team for organising a wonderful day, to everyone who helped with the organising and judging, and to Rev Scott McInnes for awarding the prizes.

Congratulations to all of our winners

Here are the entries and winners in each category:

Vegetables

01 2 Courgettes
03 - 6 Pods of Peas, Mange-Touts or Sugar Snap Peas
04 - 8 Pods of French Beans
05 - 8 Pods of Runner Beans
06 - 2 Leeks
06 - 2 Leeks
08 - 4 Onions Grown From Seed
09 - 4 Onions Grown From Sets
10 - Heaviest Onion
12 - 3 Carrots Long Variety
13 - 3 Carrots Stump Variety
15 - 1 Swede
17 - 3 Globe Beetroot
19 - Basket of Veg for Soup
20 - 1 Cabbage
21 - 1 Cauliflower
22- 5 Round Potatoes
23 - 5 Kidney Shaped Potatoes
25 - Heaviest Potato
26 - Ugliest Vegetable
27 - Any Pot Grown Herb
01 2 Courgettes

Fruit

28 - 3 Eating Apples
29 - 3 Cooking Apples
30 - Tastiest Eating Apple
30 - Tastiest Tomato
31 - 3 Plums
32 - Plate of Edible Berries
33 - 5 Red Tomatoes
34 - 5 Yellow Tomatoes
35 - 1 Truss of Tomatoes
37 - 1 Cucumber
38 - 1 Sweet Pepper
40 - 3 Of Any Other Kind of Fruit
41 - 3 Classic Chilli Peppers
42 - 3 Fancy Chillis
43 - Weird and Wonderful
28 – 3 Eating Apples

Flowers

45 - Any Houseplant
46 - 3 Dahlias
49 - 3 Phlox
50 - 3 Floribunda Roses
51 - 1 Single Rose
52 - 3 Stems of Sweet Peas
53 - Hydrangea
53 - Hydrangea
54 - 3 Stems of Any Other Cut Flower
55 - 1 Vase of Flowers
56 - 1 Vase of Mixed Annuals
57 - 1 Vase of Mixed Herbaceous Flowers
58 - 1 Vase of Edible Flowers
59 - Weird and Wonderful
45 – Any Houseplant

Culinary

60 - 1 Jar of Raspberry Jam
61 - 1 Jar of Pickled Vegetables
62 - 1 Jar of Chutney
63 - 1 Bottle of Home-Brewed Beer or Wine
64 - 1 Banana Loaf
64 - 1 Banana Loaf
65 - 1 Cake Made Using Any Vegetable
66 - 1 Loaf of Bread
67 - 1 Loaf of Sourdough Bread
68 - 4 Squares of Tablet
69 - 4 Squares of any Traybake
69 - 4 Squares of any Traybake
70 - 3 Plain Scones
71 - A Fruit Pie
60 – 1 Jar of Raspberry Jam

Creative

72 - Photograph - Enjoying The Garden
73 - Toy
74 - Cushion
75 - Woodwork
76 - Hand-knitted Garment
77 - A Scarecrow
78 Weird and Wonderful
72 – Photograph – Enjoying The Garden

Children’s Section

79 - A Vegetable Animal
80 - Drawing of A Creepy-Crawlie
81 - Egg and Cress Head
82 - Minature Garden
83 - Drawing of a Creepy-Crawlie
84 - Iced Biscuit
85 - Lego
85 - Lego
85 - Lego
85 - Lego
85 - Lego
86 - Plant or Vase of Flowers
87 - A Painted Stone
88 - 4 Iced Cupcakes
89 - Wild Flowers
90 - Portrait
79 – A Vegetable Animal

More Photos from the day

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