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NVS Southern Branch Championships 2022
The NVS Southern Branch Championships will definitely be going ahead this year. The dates are Tues 26th – 28th July 2022.
It will be hosted by the New Forest and Hampshire County Show at The Showground, New Park, Brockenhurst, Hants, SO42 7QH. T: 01590 622400 www.newforestshow.co.uk
The show schedule is available on the NVS and the New Forest Show websites. The show includes the NVS section for NVS members and the Open Show which is open to all. There is fee to enter the Open Show, details in the schedule along with information on how to submit entries.
Look out for more information in the next issue of Simply Vegetables.
We look forward to welcoming exhibitors back to the Showground.
Alison Clarke
Show Secretary – Southern Branch Championships 2022
Essex DA
By the time you’re reading this, we will hopefully have held our first couple of talks of 2022. One from Dr Peter Dawson from Tozer Seeds, and the other from Jason Ralph-Smith at Autopot Watering Systems. Thanks to everyone that attended those and also to Peter and Jason for giving up their time to come and talk to us.
For the remainder of 2022, we have the following events organised:
• Sunday 10 April: Mick Poultney talks on “A Year on the Plot”
• Sunday 8 May: John and Coral Bebbington talk on “Grow your Onions”
• Sunday 17 July: Essex DA Mini Show
• Sunday 16 October: Matt Oliver talks on “Growing Giant Pumpkins”
• Sunday 20 November: AGM
We hope to see lots of you there during the course of the year. We currently have a vacant Secretary position on our Essex DA committee. If anyone is interested in taking up this role, please get in touch.
For further information on Essex DA events, please contact Emily Plumb on emily.plumb@btinternet.com or Sherie Plumb on 01621 741787.
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By the next issue, we will also have had a talk by Paul Jupp on Flower Meadow Creation, I am intrigued to learn more as from what I can fathom, the management of a flower meadow is quite an art. Hopefully there will be lots to report in the next issue.
On 12 April, David Thornton will travel down to give us a talk on Tomatoes. Again, David has been to us before, giving us valuable insight with his talks on Shallots and Seed Production. I have been growing my shallots following his advice ever since, and I am sure everyone will be as keen as
I am to learn more about tomatoes. If SV arrives before this event, please do come and join us at Sherfield English Village Hall, SO51 6FL. Our evening talks are at 7.30pm.
At the present time, we have just received a planting list for the allotment at BBC Gardeners’ World Live Spring Fair at Beaulieu 29 April – 1st May 2022. Hants DA helped build and staff the allotment last year, along with running the NVS stand. This year, we have both the info and the time to grow the same plants that will be on the allotment, so that visitors to the show can take their favourite varieties home to grow themselves.
Our Hants DA plant sale will be two weeks after Beaulieu, on 14th May. We
will be back at Wellow Village Hall, SO51 6BR for this event. It will be like old times being at Wellow, as last year’s plant sale was a blustery but fun affair in Romsey Market as the hall was closed due to covid restrictions. I am sure the Brown family will never forget that day in the market, they
valiantly held on to the gazebo all day as it threatened to blow away the entire time.
We are looking for help with growing plants for both Beaulieu and our May plant sale, so please get in touch if you can give us a hand with this.
But even if you have a few surplus plants left over from growing your own, we would welcome them to sell at both events to raise funds for the DA. We have been unable to do any fundraising during Covid, so need to kick start our money- spinning activities again. This will ensure we can continue putting on events for our members and supporters to enjoy.
Now that we have confidence our events will go ahead, please find the year’s programme below.
Unless otherwise stated, meetings are held at 7.30pm @ Sherfield English Village Hall, Salisbury Road, Sherfield English, Romsey SO51 6FL.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Alison Clarke
Hants DA Secretary
2022 EVENTS
12 April
29 April–1 May 14 May
14 June
3 July
26-28 July
11 Sept
11 Oct
8 Nov
13 Dec
Tomatoes – David Thornton
BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair @ Beaulieu
Plant Sale @ Wellow Village Hall SO51 6BR 10am-1pm Pests and Diseases LIVE – Ray Broughton
Open Garden North Baddesley 1.30pm
Southern Championships @ New Forest Show
Annual Show @ Wellow Village Hall SO51 6BR – 1pm Italy from Seed to Plate – Paolo Arrigo, Franchi Seeds UK Growing for The Millennium Class – Mark Hall
AGM + talk
Sussex DA
Sussex DA had to reschedule their AGM from January and it will now be held on March 9th at 7.30pm at Ashurst Village Hall. BN44 3AP. This will be short and following on will be a presentation from AutoPots. In April we will be returning to Ardingly for Spring Live where we will have our usual stand showcasing vegetables in containers and will also be selling plants.
May the 11th we will be welcoming Mark Dobell who will be talking about The Modern Vegetable Garden.
We will not be at the South of England Show in June this year, instead we will be having a stand at The Floral Fringe Fair which will be held at Leonardslee Gardens in Lower Beeding. RH13 6PP. We will have plants for sale and an information bureau. Please do pop along and say hello.