VEGETABLE AND FRUIT EXHIBIT
(Senior and Junior Divisions)

Exhibit Superintendent - Katie Golembeski (860) 354-5886
Junior Division Superintendent - David Golembeski

Junior Division Superintendent - Leanne Golembeski

Exhibit Rules:

1. All Senior and Junior Division entries must be placed between 8:30 am and 12:00 noon on Friday. No entries will be accepted after that time. The exhibit will be closed at 12:00 noon for preparation and judging.

2. The Junior Division is strictly for exhibitors age 15 and under who personally bring in their own vegetables for entry. Their entries must have been raised in their own garden, and have been tended and cared for during the growing season by the Junior exhibitors themselves. No parents, grandparents, etc are allowed to enter this division in the name of a Junior exhibitor.

3. The exhibitor is responsible for providing the exact class, variety, and number of specimens designated for judging for each entry. No exhibitor may have more than one entry in each class.

4. Each entry will be judged on uniformity in shape, size, color, and quality. Each entry should be of market size and eating quality; and be free from disease, insect and mechanical injury, and soil.

5. Specimens should be trimmed. Roots should be left on beets, turnips, carrots, leeks, celery, and onions. Leaves / tops removed from carrots, rhubarb and beets. Cabbage and cauliflower trimmed close so that only 3 or 4 leaves curl away from the head. Corn should be shucked.

6. "Best of Show" will be chosen from any class except Class 110. Exhibitors entering Class 110 - Other Vegetable Not Listed, must provide the correct variety name of the specimen entered.

7. Ribbons and premium checks must be picked up on Sunday from 10 am to 5:00 pm. None will be mailed. Unclaimed prize money will be donated to the Bridgewater Fire Department. Note: Commercial growers receive ribbons but no premiums.

8. All entries become the property of the Fair Committee. None will be sold. All entries and containers (including all of the vegetable arrangement and bouquet containers) must remain on display until they are released at 6:00 pm on Sunday.

Class 1. FRUIT ARRANGEMENT

Best collection of 5 different varieties of fruits. Cannot contain baked goods, prepared food products or vegetables in the display. Fruit must be of market quality, in natural state and without decoration.

Class 2. VEGETABLE ARRANGEMENT

Best display often (10) or more different vegetables in a flat container or basket. Judged equally on: artistic appeal, specimen quality, number of species and types. Cannot contain baked goods, prepared food products or fruit in the display. Vegetables must be market quality and be in natural state and without decoration.

Class 3. SPECIMEN PLANTS

Any vegetable or fruit plant potted, settled, growing, and without wilt. Judged on appearance, maturity, labeling, apparent care, and forethought. Hanging displays welcome.

FRUITS:
Class 4. Apples (5 specimens)
Class 5. Blackberries (1 pint)
Class 6. Blueberries (1 pint)
Class 7. Melon, any variety (1 specimen)
Class 8. Peaches (5 specimens)
Class 9. Pears (5 specimens)
Class 10. Any fruit not listed.

VEGETABLES:
Beans (10 pods)
Class 11. Green Flat
Class 12. Green Round
Class 13. Pole.Red
Class 14. Yellow Flat
Class 15. Yellow Round
Class 16. Purple
Class 17. Any Other Bean Variety
Class 18. Beets (3 specimens)
Class 19. Broccoli (1 bunch) Cabbage (1 head)
Cabbage (1 head for all varieties)
Class 20. Green
Class 21. Savoy
Class 22. Red
Class 23. Carrots (5 specimens)
Class 24. Cauliflower (1 head)
Class 25. Celery (1 head)
Class 26. Chard (1 plant)
Corn (5 ears)
Class 27. Sweet, any variety
Class 28. Ornamental Corn
Cucumber (3 specimens)
Class 29. China Long
Class 30. Green Slicing
Class 31. Pickling
Eggplant (1 specimen)
Class 32. Bi-Color
Class 33. Purple
Class 34. White
Class 35. Any Other Eggplant Variety
Gourds
Class 36. Arrangement (8 specimens)
Class 37. Large (1 specimen)
Herbs (1 container)
Class 38. Same Variety Cut Bouquet
Class 39. Mixed Variety Cut Bouquet
Class 40. Potted Herb Plant
Class 41. Kale (1 plant)
Class 42. Kohlrabi (1 plant)
Lettuce (1 head/plant)
Class 43. Head, Green
Class 44. Head, Red
Class 45. Loose Leaf, Green
Class 46. Loose Leaf, Red
Onions (3 specimens or as listed)
Class 47. Garlic
Class 48. Shallots
Class 49. Leeks (3 specimens)
Class 50. Scallions/ Bunching (5 specimens)
Class 51. Red
Class 52. White
Class 53. Yellow Globe
Class 54. Any Other Onion Variety
Peppers (3 specimens)
Class 55. Cayene
Class 56. Cherry
Class 57. Green Hot
Class 58. Green Sweet Bell
Class 59. Red / Yellow Sweet Bell
Class 60. Habanero
Class 61. Italian Frying
Class 62. Jalapeno
Class 63. Yellow Hot
Class 64. Yellow Sweet
Class 65. Any Other Pepper Variety
Potatoes (3 specimens)
Class 66. Blue / Purple
Class 67. Fingerling
Class 68. Green Mountain
Class 69. Katahdin
Class 70. Kennebec
Class 71. Red
Class 72. Russet
Class 73. Yukon Gold
Class 74. Any Other Potato Variety
Pumpkins (1 specimen or as listed)
Class 75. Connecticut Field or other large field variety
Class 76. Sugar
Class 77. Miniature - 3 specimens
Class 78. Rhubarb (4 stems)
Squash (1 specimen for all varieties)
Class 79. Acorn
Class 80. Butternut
Class 81. Crook Neck
Class 82. Golden Zucchini
Class 83. Green Zucchini
Class 84. Hubbard
Class 85. Long / Narrow over 1 ft.
Class 86. Scalloped / Patti Pan
Class 87. Spaghetti
Class 88. Straight Neck
Class 89. Any Other Squash Variety
Class 90. Spinach (1 plant)
Tomatoes (3 specimens - or as noted)
Class 91. Beefsteak
Class 92. Better Boy
Class 93. Celebrity
Class 94. Early Girl
Class 95. Grape (7 specimens)
Class 96. Small Red Round / Pear, <=1" (7 specimens)
Class 97. Small Yellow Round / Pear,<=1" (7 specimens)
Class 98. Red Round / Pear, >1" (7 specimens)
Class 99. Yellow Round / Pear, >1" (7 specimens)
Class 100. Larger Italian Plum / Paste
Class 101. Smaller Plum / Juliet
Class 102. Jet Star
Class 103. Orange
Class 104. Pink
Class 105. Rutgers
Class 106. Yellow
Class 107. Heirloom
Class 108. Husk / Tomatillo
Class 109. Any Other Tomato Variety
Class 110. Any other Vegetable Not Listed
Class 111. Biggest Squash or Pumpkin
Class 112. Largest Zucchini
Class 113. Tallest Cornstalk
Class 114. Tallest Sunflower
Class 115. Vegetable Novelty - Natural State
Class 116. Vegetable Novelty - Embellished

Class 117. Largest Tomato Senior Division

Tomato must weight at least 2 lbs. The ripe, market quality tomato must have a stem.

Prize money donated by the Golembeski Family in memory of Stash Golembeski.

Class 117. Largest Tomato Junior Division

Tomato must weight at least 1 lb. The ripe, market quality tomato must have a stem.

Prize money donated by the Golembeski Family in memory of Anna Golembeski.

Fruit and Vegetable Exhibit Premiums