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Show on for 2 days, 29th & 30th Sept

https://www.malvernautumn.co.uk/

Mrs S going both days, I will be going on Sat 29th Sept

Meet for Tea/Coffee anyone ?

Regret health circumstances suggest it wise not to attempt attending show. Great shame as I have always enjoyed both the Malvern Autumn and Spring shows

I'm always so busy at this time of the year, that i'll have to give it a miss.....a real shame though.

Bit to far from us ,a pity I would have liked to meet up but both myself and my wife have problems walking any distance

Sympathise with that robo, as I did struggle walking round the showground at the spring show I am going to have to admit defeat this time I think and hire one of the mobility scooters.
Wacky Races it aint

102 miles, 2 hours on a clear run, each way for us

Over 400 miles and over 6 hours each way, so I will have to pass, but thanks for the offer of a coffee

Not going to Malvern but went to Harrogate today.

Big Veg Competition

Coleslaw anyone?



How are your marrows doing (72.2 Kg) ?



Silly beetroot

And some dahlias.

My brother-in-law was pleased with a first with one of his own breeding. He is also a National Dahlia Society judge but didn't judge this class!



Some of his featured on the trade stand (Halls of Heddon) that won the cup (Le Feu De Soleil is one), Halls sell a few varieties he has raised. The overall stand was impressively in your face.

Cracking pics Geoff, thanks.

I look at giant beetroot and wonder just how long it has taken to grow like that, cant be one seasons growth surely.

Doesn't look like a beetroot, more like a number grown so close they merged.

I went to Harrogate Show today too and loved the dahlias particularly. They always remind me of my father who had a large circular bed of all different kinds in the centre of the garden. He took cuttings from them every spring.

There were some huge veg as in Geoff's photos and I wondered how they got the giant pumpkins to the show. The largest weighed 319.8KG!

I like Malvern show but it's a bit too far from here to go for the day. It would be nice to meet up, but I'm sure you'll enjoy zooming round on your scooter Pa.

My photo didn't emphasise the size of the pumpkin so I didn't originally post it. The beetroot were part of a table of particularly ugly veg (carrot, parsnip, beetroot) - poor depth of field but you get the idea.





As I can post three at a time here are some onions - couldn't get a shot of the heaviest onions, too many people.

Those onions make me green with envy.

As for the pumpkin, I think it might have been a entry by one of the cast of Star Wars, Jabba the Hut

Going off the wall tiles that is not as big as my pumpkin ,but the onions are something else

robo wrote:Going off the wall tiles that is not as big as my pumpkin ,but the onions are something else

Please do us a pic robbo, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love to see that a member of the forum has grown a huge pumpkin


I would estimate those onions at around 750grms > 1 kg each in weight

The background is a breeze block wall, pumpkin weighs 319.8Kg. The heaviest onion that I didn't manage to photograph was 7.755Kg. The cabbage 30.2Kg, carrot 4.318Kg and beetroot 19.315Kg.