Yesterday was the Cookham Village Show and for the first timer we entered some of the fruit and vegetable classes.  We grow for fun (and mostly to eat) but wanted to support the local show.  We found that the difficulty of getting the matching specimens needed for showing confirmed our view that we won’t be entering any of the bigger shows around.  We don’t really want to be digging up/harvesting more than we can eat or use at any one time simply to have the requisite number of matching carrots (or whatever).

We did have some successes, winning prizes for carrots, sweet peppers and a collection of three types of vegetable (in our case carrots again – albeit a different variety, parsnips and onions), but probably our best entry was the chilli peppers.  These were Joe’s Long, which are not only appropriately named but very prolific, so that we were able to get the required six matching peppers.

Prize Chilli Peppers