Vegetable/Fruit plants

[igorina]

I've just found out my home shopping catalogue does plants, planters etc.
Not a huge range but a selection of a few.
And they can be paid for in instalments! Great if you can't afford to get a selection and pay up front.

I don't know what the prices are like compared to places like Dobies etc. Hopefully someone will have a look and be able to say if they are massively over priced.

www.fashionworld.co.uk

Gardening section then planting.

Helen

[Lesley Jay]

The cheapest places for fruit bushes are Aldi, Lidl and Woolworths. Last year they were selling them for only 99p each and they had a selection pack of four varieties for £2.99 (I think those were the prices.) I know that Aldi and Lidl have a newsletter that you can subscribe to which gives you advanced notice of the special offers - they sell quickly.

[igorina]

Thanks.

They are over priced in the catalogue same as every thing else.

Wilkinson are starting to sell veg plants in Feb and Poundland do a few bushes and seed growing kits. I got cherry tomatoes and white lisbon spring onions seed kits not bad for £1...

[salad daze]

Tesco have just started selling fruit trees in thier large stores , they look good too.

salad daze

[fivespud364]

On the subject of buying veg plants i see B&Q in Barnstaple had loads in last week but i was horrified with them theyre selling about 12 plants for £3.98 (which for some veg is very expensive) and the plants look rubbish they were all dying of lack of water they had just had tomatos in that had just been watered and were either that dry they were wilted or the frost had got them.


They had thousands of pansies unsold that were all leggy and getting very dry

they had all their summer bedding outside busy,lizzies,lobelia petunias etc all been frosted so will all have to be chucked

and several hundred pieris with all the coloured growth frosted

Maybe it will teach them a lesson to stop selling it so bliddy early it cant go out until the end of May so why get it so early !!

The sheds and supermarkets etc make me mad theyre all jumping on the gardening band wagon but dont have the staff or the facilities to look after plants and they all end up stretched and half dead through lack of water

I dont know why people buy their plants as to my mind they dont offer value for me money in fact i would say some are very expensive for what you get.

Rant over lol

[TPeers]

They do it because they sell!

Each pack cost the store pennies and catches the poor people who know no better. They go there for a bit of decking to 'do up' the garden and are delighted with their 'complete solution'.

I wish people would bother to do some research and not just assume the supermarkets and DIY stores have to be right because they are large!