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picman:
When you buy cornflakes , there's tiny print on the shelf says how much per 100gm ... so why not compost ... Offer in a 'garden centre ' ( department store , restaurant . book shop ) 2 x 60 Lt multipurpose £12.. 10p per Lt .. Just down the road ...Plant nursery ( and green grocers )  Offer 3x70 Lt (Erin) £11... 5p per Lt ...  Think some retailers see 'gardeners' as walking wallets .. 

ACE:
Because it is getting nearly impossible too just buy one bag at a time. You have to buy multiples to get it at what you think is a reasonable price. Three of us get together once a year at £12 a ton from the tip. They cannot sell it as compost, which is strange as it is the same rubbish they put into compost bags. Soil improver they call it, but with  varying degrees of sharp sand and your own garden compost you can make, seed, cutting, potting or just normal compost.

Obelixx:
 I try and wait till they have the BOGOF types of offer or half price or something and then we go and get 10 or 12 bags at a time.   Some for sowing and the multi-purpose for soil improving.   Haven't got enough of our own yet tho we do now have some 2 year old leaf mold and I haven't found sharp sand or perlite yet.

Tee Gee:
My Compost order worked out at 6p per litre this year!

I had 6 x 75litre bags of Clover MP delivered for £27-30.

Which I seem to recall is around the same cost as last year!


But talking of increased prices I have noticed over the last few years how prices have escalated in the garden world.

I noticed in Kings catalogue that Tomatoes varied from around 1p per seed to 14p per seed.

My favourite Br Sprout (Maximus) worked out at around 7p per seed whereas non-hybrid seeds cost around ¼p per seed meaning my seeds are 30 times more expensive than run of the mill open-pollinated varieties.

Caulies were similarly priced with my favourite costing 2.75p per seed when open-pollinated varieties are costing ¼p per seed!

What started to gall me since the arrival of Aldi & Lidl where my wife can often come home with a beautiful caulie for under 60p. The beauty of these was we can get them all the year round whereas my F1's all tend to mature within a 1-2 week period.

OK there is the satisfaction of growing them but having said that; I am finding that the quality and taste of these Caulies & Sprouts are equally as good as those that I grow so why do I bother?


What frightens me most is this "Brexit" thing and how all the scaremongers are saying there are going to be shortages and increases in prices...Why?...  the producers of such things from all over the world will still want to sell their goods to wholesalers, but as always they will be ground into submission by the large food chains, and it these 'middlemen' who in my opinion, will try to rip us off under the camouflage of 'Brexit.


I can remember way back when I was a  lad that potatoes doubled in price because of a shortage and the prices were deemed to be a 'temporary measure' but let me tell you the price never come down again.

Then we went to decimal currency (another rip off) how long did it take for an item that let's say was costing a shilling (twelve pennies') which overnight become 5 pence, then shortly after items that cost a tanner (six pennies) soon cost 5 pence!

Going metric was rather similar but took quite a long time to fully implement!

OK I'll end my rant there and for once I hope to be proved wrong.....but I won't hold my breath!

Tiny Clanger:
I am a notorious "shopper around" for compost. By good quality at the best price I can get for "important" crop seeds, and "3 for a tenner" from ASDA  to start lettuce etc in trays. The cheap one works reasonably well

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