It’s a ‘Beauty Pageant’
Your produce should be free of blemishes and uniform in size, colour, texture and shape. We are awarding points for presentation. This could be a tiebreaker where entries are of the same high standard. 5 perfect tomatoes on a pretty green plate will win over 5 perfect tomatoes in an old margarine tub.
Foliage – where specified include a small amount, e.g. about 10cm on carrots. Use artistic judgement.
Newbies class
This is for plot holders who took on their allotment recently and may feel they have nothing much to put in the show yet. Fret not, in the ‘Newbies class’ you can enter any fruit, veg or flower that turned out to be a success in your first growing season.
Display section – not in competition
Here you can display anything you have been growing that you want to show, but is not in an official show category or up to competition beauty standards. It’s interesting for all of us to see what’s growing on the site.
Entry fees
- Show – Flat fee of 50 pence per person
- Newbies class FREE
- Children’s class FREE
- Display section FREE
Show Categories 2026
| Vegetables |
| Beetroot, 3 with foliage |
| Broccoli (sprouting) 5 stalks |
| Cabbage, 2 heads |
| Carrots, 3 with foliage |
| Courgettes, 3 |
| Cucumber, 2 with foliage |
| Exotic/unusual vegetable, 1 specimen |
| French beans, 5 pods with stalks |
| Garlic, 3 bulbs |
| Gourds, 2, all types, butternut, bottle etc |
| Leeks, 3 with foliage |
| Onions, 3 from set or seed |
| Potatoes, 5 of standard white/red variety |
| Potatoes, 5 of any other variety (blue, Anya, Irish lumper, etc) |
| Pumpkin, 1 largest |
| Runner bean, longest |
| Runner beans, 5 with stalks |
| Shallots, 5 from set or seed |
| Spring onions, 7 in a bunch |
| Sweetcorn, 2 cobs |
| Sweet peppers, 2 |
| Tomatoes, 5 |
| Ugliest vegetable, 1 specimen |
| Fruit & Berries |
| Apples (cooking), 3 |
| Apples (eating), 3 |
| Pears, 3 |
| Plums, 3 |
| Raspberries, 5 berries with stalks |
| Flowers |
| Dahlias, vase of 3 blooms |
| Flowers, mixed bouquet in vase |
| Fuschia, potted plant |
| Gladioli, 3 spikes, same or mixed colours |
| Rose, 1 bloom, any type with own foliage |
| Sunflower, 1 bloom with own foliage |
| Children’s section |
| Any vegetable or flower grown by child |
| Other stuff |
| Cake, any type of handmade cake |
| Chutney, 1 jar, of any type |
| Compost, homemade, in a 500ml clear glass jar |
| Herbs, 3 varieties in a bunch |
| Jam, 1 jar, of any variety |
| NEWBIES |
Stockingstone Road Allotment Association 