LARGE leeks and beautiful blooms will be on show at a North-East visitor attraction this weekend.

Avid gardeners among Beamish Museum’s visitors, staff and volunteers will be competing for prize-winning bragging rights with amazing home-grown garden produce.

As well as a class for giant show leeks, there’s a whole range of competitions to enter, including for onions, carrots, tomatoes, the heaviest marrow and the best misshapen vegetable.

There are flower categories too, for sweet peas, ladies’ buttonholes and floral arrangements.

Spokesman Seb Littlewood said: “Leek shows have long been associated with the mining communities of our region, and were hotly contested by North-East pitmen.”