The Binsted Fete
How to Enter
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Deadlines
The deadline to enter the Flower, Produce and Craft Show is 8pm on Thursday 6th July 2023. ONLY children’s entries (15 years and under) may be made on the day of the show (before 10am).
You can enter in three different ways.
In person - registrations can be submitted on Thursday 6th July 2023 between 6pm – 8pm at the Pavilion on Binsted Recreational Ground.
By email – email your completed form to thebinstedfete@gmail.com
By post/ hand delivered – c/o Savanna Daniel, 5 Thurstons, Binsted, GU34 4PD.
Entries must then be delivered to the marquee on Binsted Rec between 7:30am – 10am on the 8th July 2023
PLEASE NOTE: The Marquee will be closed from 10am for judging.
1. Entry Fee: £2 per class (Children’s entries are FREE) – payment in cash, cheques made out to “Binsted Fete & Flower Show”, via Bank Transfer – Lloyds acc number 00021109 // sort code 30-99-09 [use surname as reference] or our secure payment service BOPP (see www.binstedfete.co.uk for details)
2. Exhibits may be laid out between 7.30am and 10am on the morning of the show
3. Exhibitors not wishing to donate their produce to should remove their exhibit between 3.30pm and 4pm.
4. Where there are less than three entries in a class, prizes and cups will only be awarded at the judges’ discretion
5. Two or more exhibitors from the same address may each enter the same class as separate exhibitors
6. All judging under Royal Horticultural Society’s current rules but the judges have full discretion. The Royal Horticultural Society publishes an excellent little book The Horticultural Show Handbook which is full of useful tips. See www.rhs.org.uk
7. Points in all sections: First: 3 points, Second: 2 points, Third: 1 point
8. A “novice” is a first or second year entrant who has not won a cup or first prize previously
All trophies may be held for one year. We would be very grateful if you could engrave your name on the trophy(s) you have won, and return them to the committee ahead of next year’s event. Please contact Matt Arrowsmith on 07717 750035 if you hold a trophy.
Any questions? Just give us a call! We’d be happy to help.
The Flower Show: Savanna Daniel 07711 116 608 General: Matt Arrowsmith on 0771 7750 035
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Tips & Tricks
Section A: Vegetables, Fruit, Flowers and Plants
The Cox Cup is awarded for most points in Section A. The Miller Cup is awarded for the best exhibit in Section A and the Snelson Cup for the most points obtained by a novice in Section A. Soft fruit should always be on a dish (an ordinary small paper plate is fine). Currants should be displayed in bunches. Individual fruit arranged in a circle, with the short stalks left on. If they are nice and clean, then avoid the temptation to wash them but try to preserve any natural “bloom” on the skins.
All vegetables should be clean but avoid over-scrubbing. Large and well-filled pods are displayed unopened (the judge may open one pod). Pick the pods with scissors to leave a little stalk on.
The Joan and Terry Cox Cup is awarded for best root vegetables. Root vegetables should have the whole taproot left on, fine side roots can be neatly snipped off.
Leafy vegetables should have as little trimming as possible. Only a few outer leaves should be removed.
Onions should be trimmed and tied off neatly with raffia and the roots trimmed off. As little of the outer skin should be removed as possible and the bulbs should be ripe rather than green.
Win The Millennium Cup for best sweet peas, The Joan Carr Cup for best roses and The Hampden Cup for best perennial.