HOW do you decide what fruit or what vegetables growing in your backyard or out in the paddock is good enough to enter into a Show?
The answer is to use your best judgement … then have a go. And if you have time, sit in at the judging and listen to the judges’ comments.
Fruit and Veg Chief Steward at the Marburg Show, Heather Lehmann is keen to ‘grow’ her section.
It’s a section she took over when the former Chief Steward, her dad Merv Steinhardt, retired after volunteering at the Show for about 75 years.
Heather says that recent changes to the classes have made it easier to enter.
“In some of the classes you no longer have to have six samples,” Heather says. “Now you only have to have three samples or in classes such as the celery and the silverbeet, you only need to have two samples.”
These changes are aimed at making it easier for the backyard gardener to enter.
Heather is hoping long time supporter and extensive fruit and veg exhibitor, Ashley Haag, will again be entering – not only to boost entry numbers but to add extra interest due to the heritage fruit and vegetables that he normally exhibits as part of his entries in the collection classes.
And Heather would love to boost numbers in the Junior section.
She and her siblings entered in the section as kids and heather has watched her children enter, and her nieces and nephew, and her grandchildren and other young relatives.
“It’s a great way to get into showing and supporting your local Show, which remains an important part of the community.”
