Janet Tweedy wrote:
Then members show much less full on RHS classes but added in there's
biggest weed or longest root veg etc.

Ooh, I like biggest weed! We have longest runner bean, but that's the most
interesting it gets. :-( I suggested "ugliest vegetable", but no-one went
for it.

I do the lunches for that usually 20 people book then 28 expect to eat

Oh, that's interesting. Our chair wanted to put the entry price up -
currently 30p to get in, 20p per exhibit. I suggested she could make it a
pound and include a cup of tea and a biscuit. But then, there's nowhere in
the hall to put seats, so that may not work.

This year a new class copied from bellingdon show. Board which fits
nicely over a Indian takeaway plastic dish. Board has 9 holes and class
is for 9 fuchsia heads (but could be nine other flowers in next years
class if successful) means people don't have to lug in whole tubs or
pots with plant in.

We have that, but I think it's 6 not 9. In a 'society box'. But they also
have a fuchsia category separately.

There is a book you can get from the RHS which tells you the definition
of classes and what you have to do. For instance you must leave top on
tomato to show you haven't bought them and

Ooh, I will have to investigate that. Would be useful

courgettes mustn't be over a certain length etc. etc.

I always struggle getting my courgettes to stay small enough. :-( I think
it's 4-6", at which point they're all scrawny!