Annual show proves a bit wacky!

The Empingham Garden Club Annual Show was a bit different this year.

The Grow It, Cook It, Make It Show had a new venue - The Methodist Chapel - a new date and it also had a wacky theme.

To encourage more people to take part some fun new classes were added.

Along with the usual ‘Best home grown’ onions there was also a class for ‘Best dressed onion’.

This attracted an onion sporting tennis gear on a Wimbledon court.

An onion, a bit worse for wear, holding a bottle of beer titled ‘Pickled Onion’ and other onion couture.

In the fruit and vegetables section there was a knitted fruit or vegetable class which attracted some amazing knitted edibles including peas in pods and a banana in a zip up skin!

It wasn’t all fun though as some serious competition was in evidence with the hall packed full of perfect produce, heavenly home cooked delights, crafts and photographs.

The winners were:

- David Hodson – Corby Challenge Bowl for the highest points overall in the show and the RHS Banksian Medal for the most points in the horticultural classes;

- Grace Ramsthorne - under eights children’s winner;

- Janet Bianchi - Nancy Crowther cup for pot plants and flowers and the Corby Rose Bowl for roses;

- Sue St Clair-Thompson - David Studman cup for fruit;

- Caroline Meyrick - Cookery Cup for home produce, and Vida Nicholson Cup for arts and crafts;

- Margaret Macpherson - Margaret Gilbert Cup for best needlework;

- Heather Carney - Elizabeth Mills trophy for Flower arrangements;

- Lesley Hillman - Paul Fisher Ladies Cup for lady with highest overall points and the Lambert Shield for the Best Exhibit in the Show as voted by the public (This was the knitted veg);

- Denis Trevor - for best allotment.