Kitchen Garden Forum

Its been quiet on here for the last few days and I've trying to think of something to encourage some activity.


How about we have our own show, just take photographs of what you would enter if the show were 'real time' as opposed to cyber. Purely fun, no prizes (unless KG can expand this idea somehow)


Entries can be any veg,
any floral exhibit single stem, bunch or arrangement
or any craft item,

Just as you might see at a village show. As many entries as you wish, all ongoing, no closing date at present.
I will kick it off with some of the items I entered in our local show last weekend but your pictures do not have to have been entered in a real show.

My Marmalade



My daughters cake and embroidery entries

So there are my manky veg entries, there were a few other veg entries but I failed to take pics of them all.

You can do far better than that I know. come on, have a bit of fun !!!

Nice display Pa and excellent result. Good idea too. I'll have a look if I've anything worth showing off when it stops raining.

I think we've eaten the best of a lot of stuff, there's Parsnips and carrots still in the ground and a few tatties, lots of fruit on the apple trees, but not quite ready for picking, I'll see what I can find.

The last cob of sweetcorn

Some rather small onions

That's it at the moment

nice clean cob.
We'll put your onions in the 'under 8oz' class

Some will make nice pickled ones lol, I have planted some autumn planting sets for next year, called "Electric", never grown them before. I intend to grow some "Mammoth" onions from seed next year for a change, I used to grow them years ago.

Ill take a few pictures of my giant beetroot and pumpkin most of the other vegetables are gone or still growing

To go with the roast beef tonight

well not all of them.
There's a couple to go in the funny shaped ones in there too.

mm roast beef, I wish !!!
Should be a tasty meal with that parsnip

Roast beef on a Wednesday it's spam butties in our neck of the woods or should I say it used to be before I got married some 47 years ago

Got to enter my pumpkins, Polar Bear & Musque de Provence - & I'm still chuffed about last years onions so you can have another look!





Fun idea Pa! I will take some pics when next down at the weekend. I couldn't attend our show this year but only had a few cherry tomatoes of any worth, if the show was this weekend I think I could have put in several entries as have quite a bit of stuff that have recovered well from the dry & hot & are now producing, hearted or swollen to a decent size.

Our show benches, sorry kitchen counter and windowsill, look just as silly as they seem to have done for weeks. The squashes are Fairy and Hunter Butternut.