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Posted by treborstemme (U15013358) on Tuesday, 28th February 2012
I thought it would be a great idea to share our best buys around the garden. It could be a piece of equipment, a book, a plant, anything! As a new gardener I'm keen to hear from others and perhaps learn a thing or two!
I'll start with my first tonne of grit! Such a simple thing but priceless around the garden!
For various reasons involving a locked door and having to get into the house through a cat flap my OH recently broke our pruning saw and we have just obtained a new one. Only cheap from the local ironmonger but it's great - a neat lock mechanism to stop you accidently closing it on your fingers, good angle on the teeth and a really comfortable grip. OH swears he'll keep it clean and oiled. Yeah, right...
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Posted by sparklepinksunflower (U10977805) on Wednesday, 29th February 2012
99p Shop - got some anti fungal spray and some tomato feed.
Delivered horse manure..... not glamorous, but good.
Sharpening iron- this has revolutionised my secateurs, 2 pairs of shears and various other tools that i had thought were in need of expensive replacement. Best £15 I’ve spent in the garden.
Joy
I bought a Forsythia from Tesco yesterday, reduced to 63p!! It looked a bit droopy mind, but have had it soaking in a bucket of water overnight, and its perked up no end. Planting it tomorrow! What a bargain.
1 blackcurrant and 1 redcurrant £1 each from Wilkos Put them in the greenhouse for a few days still in the cardboard packets and will plant them out soon.
Morrisons for assorted clematis at £1-79m and 6-packs of plug plants (trailing fuschia, New Guinea Busy Lizzies) for £2 each. The plugs came well packed with moisture-retaining gel in the bottom of the pack so they were nice and fresh, and are responding well to being potted on. Oh, and a Dicentra Spectabilis for £1, now flourishing in a border.
Pack of fleece in the 99p store. Spare reading glasses, now needed for various garden jobs, also 99p.
Old fork (kitchen type) in a charity shop, very useful for planting out and repotting little seedlings.
Large bag of vermuclite 30p from Wilkinson's, the bag was split but I can live with that
Pack of canes, ball of twine, biodegradeable pots £1 each - packet of seeds (dwarf, borlotti & broad beans) free, girl behind counter pointed out there was a leaflet for this & went and got me one. A popular Pound shop.
I am a new gardener and just bought my first garden fork. Cost £10. Its fantastic much easier to dig than I expected. I actually enjoyed forking over all the weeds.
Another bargain from Morrisons today: an Amelanchier Canadiensis tree for £2 (yes, two pounds!). We'd been looking at similar trees in garden centres, where they charge about £20. Admittedly it's a bit late to be planting a bare-rooted tree, but it's certainly worth a try at this price!
And a trip to the 99p shop yielded a pack of four balls of garden twine and a packet of garden lime for - yes, 99p each.
And in Lidl, two packs of flower seeds (nasturtiums and wildflower mix) for 50p. Lidl have quite a bit of gardening stuff in at the moment, worth a look if you're passing.
Always worth a look at the living herbs in whichever of the Tesbury lot you shop at - tired but revivable ones can go for a few pence.
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