Welcome to the NVS
National Vegetable Society
Growing for show or just to provide better quality vegetables for you and your family, the Growing Advice pages will help you.
There's a list of Horticultural Shows if you want to visit or show yourself.
The articles are in sections:
National Vegetable Society News
Jersey Association of NVS Programme 2012
North Midlands DA Shows & Events 2012
Show Results Northern Branch Championships Harrogate 2011
Forthcoming Talks From Bucks DA
Guess the weight of the marrow at Wisley Results
The National Vegetable Society NVS is a registered charity dedicated to advancing the culture, study and improvement of vegetables offering help and advice to novice and expert show grower alike.
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Over 50 Years Experience Growing Vegetables!
The society was founded in 1960 and celebrated 50 years and still growing strong back in 2010. Our strength is in the membership and members belong to regional branches. There are five of these regional branches and associated to these in turn are the District Associations which serve local areas.
Usually the District Associations (we call them DAs for short!) meet regularly and arrange talks, trips etc for the members For details of local DA's and branches go to About the NVS
Growing & Showing Vegetables
There's a wealth of knowledge in the society and our members have written many articles on vegetable growing which are published in the quarterly magazine that is sent out to members. We've got many of these articles of interest to gardeners and not just vegetable growers although we do concentrate on growing superb vegetables, on the site here: Vegetable Growing Articles
As well as the advice and help the society offers to novice vegetable growers, we also train and examine horticultural judges for shows and maintain a list of horticultural lecturers.
We also have a list of horticultural shows you can visit (or exhibit in!) listed here: Horticultural Shows.
National Championships & Shows
Each year the society holds championships where the best vegetable growers in the land compete for the coveted red winner's card and prizes. This competition is hosted by a different banch each year. This year, 2012, it's the turn of the Midland Branch to host the national championships in Malvern at the Three Counties Showground on 29th & 30th September. The AGM will also be held on the Saturday 29th September at the showground.
The 2011 championships and AGM were hosted by the Welsh branch at the Royal Pavilion Llangollen, Denbighshire over the August bank holiday Sat 27th.August to Monday 29th August. The vegetable championship results for 2011 can be found here the AGM resulted in some changes to the members of the National Executive Committee and awards were made to members. Details of the 2011 AGM
For 2010, our 50th anniversary year, they were hosted by the Scottish Branch in Dundee. More on the NVS National Championships and AGM 2010 The 2009 NVS championships were held at Dorchester in the Dorset County show in 2009. Dorset County Show is one of the premier agricultural and horticultural events in the region. There's a full report in the news section here: NVS Vegetable Show 2009 The 2008 competition was held at Harrogate: NVS National Championships 2008
The results from 2007 National Championship at Malvern are also available on the site.
NVS DVDs, Growing Leaflets etc.
In the NVS Shop you can buy DVD's and leaflets made by the society's experts
Selected Articles:
Mini vegetables - crops of the future? Part One
Unusual Vegetables: Salsify the Vegetable Oyster
Growing long carrots for show- a second view
The Pea Bean - Phaseolus aegypticus
Fungi and their classification part two
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