November 10th, 2024Are you a show-winning home gardner?
Home gardeners may not realise that three potatoes, brushed, but not washed, that are a nice shape, about the same size and texture and look good enough to eat could be good enough to enter in the Daylesford Show on November 23 with entries closing on Sunday, November 17.
Three good examples of different home-grown vegetables or a bunch of parsley, or five sticks of rhubarb, a bunch of spring onions, three whole heads of garlic, 10 pods of peas or indeed any other vegetable could also be entered.
You may have eggs from your hens or ducks, honey from your own bees, or cheese from goats or cow’s milk that may also be good enough to enter, and don’t forget the showgoers are waiting to be impressed by your growing or collecting skills.
Many gardens in Daylesford have a lemon tree with at least three lemons of uniform size and texture and looking nice but if you want to show them make sure that you leave a little piece of green stem showing.
Daylesford and District Agricultural Society is proud to present Farm and Garden Produce and Flowers in our Hall of Flowers. On Show Day look for the Rijk Zwaan sign on the Table Tennis Centre.
The Daylesford Show is proud to be supported by the Daylesford/Musk branch of the international seed-producing firm each year.
Inside the Hall of Flowers you will find our display of Cut Flowers and Floral Art, surrounded by floral stalls by the Daylesford Horticultural Society, Friends of Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens, Spring Park Nursery and a number of other local groups.
The gentle music of Vanessa Craven and her band Lake Mist in the background makes this a quiet haven for the garden lover.
It has been a very good season for spring flowers in Daylesford with the low rainfall making the ground a bit warmer and blooms a bit more vibrant, so expect the hall to be full of shades of pinks, yellows, oranges, reds and mauve/magentas.
If you are looking around your own garden and thinking it looks great this year, then download the schedule and see what you can enter.
Our bright and colourful flower and vegetable displays will be made better with your entries and this year we have extra rosettes and prizes to commemorate the 150th Daylesford annual show in our 160-year history.
If you are interested, head to www.daylesfordshow.com, check our schedule and enter online. Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday, November 23 from 9am.
