Garden Bargains and Freebies

pickledtink

tawnyowls wrote:

Saw an ad in a gardening mag yesterday - Kays Horticultural are selling off cheap fleece, netting, hoses etc.

Is that a shop or a website? Where are you in the country? If a site can we have the link please? :T
If it's a shop it may only be local to one area. I know I drool over some of the bargains to be had in small chains which we just don't have down here ( The Balmy South Coast)

MaureenHB

pickledtink wrote:

Is that a shop or a website? Where are you in the country? If a site can we have the link please? :T
If it's a shop it may only be local to one area. I know I drool over some of the bargains to be had in small chains which we just don't have down here ( The Balmy South Coast)

Hey, you ought to try living up here in the Barmy Frozen North!! I always feel like ALL adverts and bargains are for people in the South!!

pickledtink

MaureenHB wrote:

Hey, you ought to try living up here in the Barmy Frozen North!! I always feel like ALL adverts and bargains are for people in the South!!

Oh yeah? I nearly burst into tears when I discovered the Aldi Olive trees were only for you Jammy Northern lot. No Olive trees down here ( where they might actually survive)
Nope the great Aldi powers that be decided: 'Olive trees. Hmmmm.... A mediteranean tree which survives happily in dry arrid HOT climates. Let's send them North so they can all die.':rolleyes:

squibbs25

pickledtink I went back to focus as promised, and hardly anythnig left!
Few ornaments and garden games and that was about it.
Word must have got around!

Squibbs

Elljay_2

pickledtink wrote:

Oh yeah? I nearly burst into tears when I discovered the Aldi Olive trees were only for you Jammy Northern lot. No Olive trees down here ( where they might actually survive)
Nope the great Aldi powers that be decided: 'Olive trees. Hmmmm.... A mediteranean tree which survives happily in dry arrid HOT climates. Let's send them North so they can all die.':rolleyes:

My mum was telling me about a little olive tree with a small bottle of olive oil with it for sale this week in Lidl,s and she lives in the South!! Can't find it on their website though for confirmation, but they were def sold in Lidl's coz she doesn't go to Aldi. HTH

pickledtink

Elljay wrote:

My mum was telling me about a little olive tree with a small bottle of olive oil with it for sale this week in Lidl,s and she lives in the South!! Can't find it on their website though for confirmation, but they were def sold in Lidl's coz she doesn't go to Aldi. HTH

Thanks. I'll go and look. Nothing about it on the website though.

pickledtink

Wyevales free bulbs offer on again from today.

tawnyowls

MaureenHB wrote:

Oooh, great, gardening!
I agree with Poundland and Poundstretcher, lots of "end of season" (for them!) bargains. Also in Wilkinsons yesterday I found lots of pots and gloves, canes etc. I have been on the look out for bulbs.. daffs and tulips for outside and prepared hyacinths for inside. Anyone found any reasonable priced?

If there's a branch near you, Superbuys have been doing packs of 3 hyacinth bulbs for 99p (dunno if they're prepared). Also packs of lots of other sorts of bulbs - varying from 1 to 20 bulbs per pack, depending on the plant.

voodoozoe

What is a good price to pay for fleece??? I guess in Poundland it must be a POUND???!!!.....but how much do you get compared with normal non-pound shops???

My mum gave me £20 to treat myself so I am to buy some mushroom plugs and some fleece so I can plant some winter veg:D

tawnyowls

Kays Horticulture (https://www.kayshorticulture.com) was the cheapest place I found to buy fleece. Unfortunately, they're getting their website redeveloped at the mo, so I'm not sure how much it is per metre. I know B&Q used to sell by the metre (I think usually on a 2m wide roll), so that would at least give you an idea, and then you'd be able to work out whether the Poundland pack was a bargain or not.