Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => The Show Bench => Topic started by: jamima on September 03, 2010, 10:16
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Anyone got any tips on showing beans how long ,etc and how do you present the jam tips please, thought i'd have a go in a show this weekend :)
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hiya jamima well done for entering your 1st show ,i can only comment about the runner beans they need to be the straightest ones you have got and however many it stipulates in the agenda plus they all need to be the same length or as near as damit ,the jam someone wiser will be along shortly
(http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt5/phil1961/maesbrookshow2010008.jpg)
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Thankyou Philskin do you need to take your own cloth to display on ?
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most use the white plates but they don't show the veg up as well i made mine out of plywood and black cloth ,its just a preference thing
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Ok thanks for that :)
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Pick them with a bit of stalk. Try not to handle them too much so that they retain as much natural bloom as possible. Certainly do not wash them.
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to straiten your beans wrap in a damp teatowl over night,
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Well thanks for the advice it was a bit late though ,did'nt enter because coudn't find any straight beans, had i known earlier about the t towel i could have entered never mind always next year, and did'nt enter any jam because all mine has fancy labels and thats not alllowed but did enter the dog in the oldie goldie competition and she came 2nd :) :)
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Well done Jamima, at least you got something and second is very good. Mr Mole says wasn't there a class you could have put Phil in to win you something. :D
Sue Anne
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Hello Sue Anne he did enter the tug of war and team came second so not so bad, hello Mr Mole :)