Caversham Horticultural Society

Our Autumn Show

Saturday 31st August 2024

Saturday 31st August 2024

Our Autumn Show will be on Saturday 31st August 2024 at Emmer Green primary school, Caversham. 

We hope you coming to see the exhibits, buy plants and bulbs as well as enjoying the refreshments and raffle.

How to Enter

We aim to encourage all levels of exhibitors and there are classes for everyone, from fruit and veg growers, to flower growers and arrangers, classes for the budding Bake-off contestant and a handicraft section too. 

See the schedule below for this year's show (Autumn 2024).


Download the autumn show schedule

Show Schedule 2024

Vegetables

Class 1: 5 salad tomatoes
Class 2: 3 beef steak tomatoes
Class 3: 7 cherry tomatoes
Class 4: truss of green tomatoes
Class 5: 3 potatoes, white
Class 6: 3 potatoes, coloured
Class 7: 6 potatoes, 2 each of 3 varieties

Class 8: 3 onions globe <7.5cm

Class 9: 3 onions flat < 9cm

Class 10: 7 shallots

Class 11: 3 beetroot

Class 12: 3 carrots

Class 13: 6 runner beans

Class 14: 7 French beans

Class 15: 2 sweetcorn 

Class 16: 2 cucumbers

Class 17: 3 courgettes

Class 18: any other vegetable

Class 19: any four vegetables

Class 20: 3 kinds salad vegetables

Class 21: 6  stems culinary herbs (min 3 varieties)
fruit

Class 22: 3 dessert apples
Class 23: 3 cooking apples
Class 24: 3 pears
Class 25: plate of 3 mixed fruit
Class 26: any other fruit
Class 27: 6 soft fruit
Flowers

Class 28: 3 blooms large flowered roses
Class 29: 3 stems cluster flowered roses
Class 30: bowl of roses
Class 31: rose bloom floating in a bowl
Class 32: 3 blooms mixed dahlias
Class 33: 3 blooms dahlias single variety
Class 34: specimen bloom dahlia
Class 35: specimen stem pelargonium
Class 36: vase annual single variety
Class 37: case annual mixed varieties
Class 38: 3 multistems cosmos
Class 39: 1 bloom sunflower
Class 40: 3 stems fuchsia mixed varieties
Class 41: 1 specimen stem fuchsia
Class 42: vase of perennials
Class 43: vase foliage (min 3 varieties)
Class 44: fuchsia in a pot 
Class 45: foliage pot plant max pot 20cm
Class 46: flowering pot plant max pot 20cm
Class 47: succulent or cactus max pot 20cm
Novice

Class 48: 3 runner beans

Class 49: 3 potatoes

Class 50: 3 tomatoes
Class 51: any other vegetable
Class 52: 2 apples
Class 53: any other fruit
Class 54: vase mixed flowers
Class 55: vase one kind flowers
Class 56: novice floral arrangement <25cm hxdxw
Domestic

Class 57: jar of jam
Class 58: jar of fruit curd
Class 59: small bottle homemade wine
Class 60: 3 breakfast muffins
Class 61: 5 cheese straws
Class 62: a Bakewell tart
Class 63: upsidedown cake
Class 64: banana loaf cake (see full schedule for recipe)
Miscellaneous and handicraft

Class 65: longest runner bean
Class 66: home made compost
Class 67: ugliest vegetable
Class 68: Michael Howes challenge cup (seniors only)
Class 69: Jean Sawyer cup
Class 70: photo of "a pet"
Class 71: photo of "your garden"
Class 72: photo of "what a mess!"
Class 73: knitted hat
Class 74: item of embroidery
Class 75: painting of "the countryside"
Class 76: piece of pottery
Floral Art

Class 77: "Shades of one colour"
Class 78: "Autumn hedgerow"
Class 79: "The river bank"
Class 80: Petite (<25cm)
Class 81: Miniature (<10cm)
Children (12 and under)

Class 82: garden in half a seed tray
Class 83: monster from fruit/veg
Class 84: vase of any flower
Class 85: any vegetable
Class 86: a friendship bracelet
Class 87: a picture of a flower
Class 88: a photo of a pet
Class 89: a microwave mug cake

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