Monday 21 April 2014

April Meeting

With our Summer Show in mind our speaker for April was Mrs. Joy Everington who gave a very amusing and informative talk entitled "The Pleasures and Perils of Showing and Judging". She studied for a General Certificate in Horticultural at Kingston Mauward, then shadowed judges for 2 years before going on the Judges List.

 When Judging vegetables she is looking for size, shape, colour and uniformity. She used carrots as an example, asking the audience to decide the winning plate of carrots.. When showing flowers and plants, all dead leaves, dead flowers and seed heads should be removed, and 70% of the buds should be in flower. Roses need to be half to threequarters open, if you can see the stamens they are open to far. Again she demonstrated the point by showing examples. If entering jams and preserves in a show they need to be in clean glass jars filled right to the top.

Mrs Margaret Keogh thanked Mrs Everington for a most entertaining talk which created a lot of interest.

Flower of the month competition. There was a tie for first place this month with Barbara Norton, Josie Rigler and Jan Ravensdale receiving equal points..


Date of the next meeting - Wednesday 14th May 7.30pm at West Lulworth Village Hall - speaker yet to be decided.

Future Dates :- Coffee Morning and Plant Sale - Tuesday 20th May 10.00am-12.00noon West Lulworth Village Hall.   

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