I’ve chosen very simple sample of garden loveliness for this week’s #SinOnSaturday. Today is my local village Annual Flower and Produce Show. I’ve entered mostly in the fruit and veg categories (plus one big bunch of flowers), here are some of my favourite entries.
I hope there’s a good chance for a prize for courgettes this year. After watering and gently singing to them this week, I’ve managed to collect 3 decent fruit, all about the same size. Fingers crossed.
Tomatoes are good too, though 2/3 of these have little blemishes on the bottom, so I’m not sure if they will be be up to scratch. From the top they look so good I just had to enter these 3.
There’s always a ‘veg not in schedule’ category. I have entered a handful of achocha, a Peruvian vine, related to exploding cucumber. My plants do very well in the greenhouse, and not badly against a south-facing wall in the garden. they are great chopped and used like bell pepper.
Although the rhubarb path got a bit exhausted back in dry June, it has been revived by the July rain. I am rather pleased with my offering for this year’s show.
The last veg on show today are my chillies. The variety is “Nigel’s outdoor”, supposedly hardy enough for outdoor growing in the UK. This seems to be holding up. Two of these fruit came from plants in the greenhouse, the other from an outdoor one. Looking good, but maybe not similar enough for a prize this year?
Last up, I won first prize for raspberries last year, this year it was hard to find 12 fruit on the plant. There are plenty of fruit, just not ripe. I did manage after some rummaging around.
Wish me luck, this lot and more have been delivered to the village hall now. The show opens at 2pm and I can go see how I’ve done.
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Gorgeous appetizing photos! I did not grow the achochas this year but I should try again because I had good results
Thanks Fred. I am still growing some of ‘your’ achocha too, from the seeds you sent. They fruit much later (even in the greenhouse), so I’m waiting.