THE BRADFORD on Avon Flower and Produce Show is back for 2021. The well loved annual event couldn’t take place last year due to the pandemic, but organisers are very much looking forward to seeing entries for 2021.

The show features award classes for vegetables, flowers, floral art, cookery, craft and more – with home-made tea and cakes in aid of Save the Children.

“If you grow it then show it” is the message from organisers of the event.

The committee of the Bradford on Avon Produce Show are keen to bounce back with grand produce event that traditionally is held in September

Coordinator John Potter has been raiding his garden to stage a picture in readiness for pre viewing the annual show.

He said: “Sadly because of the paramedic we were not able to have our show last year. But with many budding gardeners tending their gardens and allotments over the last 16 months we are planning a show that could be a blooming success. My message to all the green fingered enthusiasts is ‘if you grow it then show it.”

The show, with its list of 94 classes, is being held at the town’s St Margaret’s Hall on Sunday, September 5.

Schedules for the show with entries that vary from longest biggest and best produce to flowers and ornaments to crafts, floral art and cookery and are available from the railway station and the town council offices.

The Bradford on Avon Flower Show committee add in their schedule update: “Now, dear friends, we are over-excited to announce that this legendary flower show of ours will return. The doors of St Margaret’s Hall will creak open, a lost caretaker or two will emerge blinking into the light, and the joy will be unbounded.

“The categories you once knew and loved are still here, barely changed. The ‘longest carrot’, the ‘largest marrow’, the ‘apples, cooking 3’, the ‘tomatoes, 5, small fruited cultivar (under 35mm), calyx on’, the ‘animal made from vegetables’ – all have survived. You will also be delighted to see the ‘longest piece of bindweed’ back again after a remarkable debut in 2019.

“Speaking of 2019, that innocent era, we have to mention the craft entries – they were magnificent! We call upon the arts and crafts geniuses of Bradford on Avon, young and old, to revive their skills and amaze us once more! We must all have hope. Yes, it is possible that at 8 o’clock on the evening of Saturday, September 4 we will discover that public gatherings have been banned, but we will simply hold a gigantic Zoom call in which each entrant takes five minutes to present his or her entry followed by live scoring by the judges; it will last approximately 17 hours and will be an electrifying event.

“We in the committee, already beside ourselves with unseemly excitement, can’t wait to see you on that Zoom call*. Or in St Margaret’s Hall. And until then, as Bob Dylan himself teaches us, ‘may your hands always be busy’...”

To find out more about the event go to https://bradfordonavontowncouncil.gov.uk/events/event/boa-flower-produce-show. The show takes place September 5 between 2 and 4pm at St Margaret’s Hall, St Margaret’s Street, Bradford on Avon.