The 2015 Fruit Competition Schedule has been sent out to growers and this year we have £10,000 in the prize fund.  There are 21 Classes in the Top Fruit Competition and 7 Classes in the Soft Fruit and Nuts.  Each class has a Prize Sponsor and a Prize Money Sponsor giving first place £75, second place £50 and third place £25.  The prizes can range from vouchers to Champagne to cut glass crystal and are chosen by the Show Team based on previous years prizes and a keen eye for the unusual and desirable.

The ‘Tastiest Apple’ competition is judged on the first morning of the show by a panel of judges invited jointly by The Fruit Grower who sponsor the £200 first prize and The Marden Fruit Show Society. The judges taste samples taken from all entries in the show competition classes for named varieties of dessert apples (Classes 3 -11), plus varieties of these apples in Classes 18 and 20.

The ‘Heaviest’ competitions for apples sponsored by Channel Weighing and pears sponsored by Chingford Fruit Ltd has a prize money pot of £75 for first, £50 for second and £25 for third place.  There is a special 330 prize for the single heaviest fruit in each.

Our list of Prize and Prize Money Sponsors include:

Agrii Ltd, Wealden AM, Richard Hochfeld Ltd, Landseer Ltd, Bayer Crop Science, Avalon Produce, SouthEast Farmer, The Asplins PO Ltd, Worldwide Fruit, Greencell Ltd, The Fruit Grower, New Spitalfields Market, Lambert & Foster, Chingford Fruit Ltd, UNIVEG UK, NFU Sittingbourne, NFU SE, Hadlow College, FP Matthews, ICA Ltd, Haynes Agricultural, DSH Ltd, Goathams, Channel Weighing.