Cherry and Soft Fruit Show, 2007


On Friday, Mansfields took part in the 77th Cherry and Soft Fruit Show at the County Agricultural Showground in Detling and we were awarded 1st prizes in 5 categories, 2nd prize in 4 categories and 3rd prize in 5 categories. We have also won the JP Distributors Bowl-Highest points all classes and the Fyffes monro group bowl- for the Highest points collected in the categories in Division 1

2 comments:

cherrylover said...

Hello, lovely blog. I love the detail. Just wondering what your colney cherry yields were like in 2007 compared to previous years. I ask because I heard that the bad weather caused some run-off and splitting.

Mansfields said...

Overall we had an average to a good yield in 2007 but we lost about 15% of our crop due to the very wet season. Luckily 90% of our main varieties, including Colney, are grown under rain covers so the fruit quality did not suffer greatly from the difficult season. We have managed a consistent yield over the last few years by intensive (selective) manually based pruning, feeding as well as investing in rain covers.