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GROW FOR IT! Tatties in a tub challenge at Black Isle Horticultural Society summer show


By Hector MacKenzie

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GROWING the humble spud in a pot or container could land you a prize in a Black Isle horticultural competition.

Black Isle Horticultural Society's summer show is pegged for Saturday, August 13 at the Gordon Memorial Hall in Rosemarkie.

It said: "We’ve got a new and special competition this year. Plant one seed potato in a pot or container with a maximum capacity of 14 litres (standard builder's bucket size). You choose the variety, compost, and when and how you grow it."

It added: "Gardening has changed over the years and we rightly think more about sustainability, seasonality and biodiversity. We’ve made some changes to our schedule this year to reflect this, while keeping quality and skills in growing, baking, preserves, craft, and photography at the core of the show."

There are some new classes in vegetables and fruit – including a class for mangetout or snap peas and one for alpine or wild strawberries. It added: "We’ve removed the apple classes from our fruit section – the more we think about eating seasonally, the stranger it seems that we pick apples in August two months before they’re edible, put them on the show bench and then throw them in the compost. And you know how the ugliest tomato variety that wouldn’t normally get near the show is often the one that tastes the best? Well, you can now enter it - we’ve got a class for a tomato judged entirely on taste!"

With more people growing wild flowers in their gardens, both because they’re beautiful and for the biodiversity benefits they bring, there are four new classes for cut wild flowers.

The Black Isle Horticultural Society is a community group that holds a friendly local summer show, with exhibitors mainly from the Black Isle. There are classes for cut flowers, pot plants, fruit, vegetables, baking, preserves, crafts, and photographs. It also boasts a section for under 14s, a novice section for people who haven't entered or won before, and a new class for botanical illustration.

See more at http://www.spanglefish.com/blackislehorticulturalsociety/


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