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General => Bargains Galore => Topic started by: Deb P on August 21, 2015, 20:51:54
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It's getting near to that time of year again, I know the half price seed sale has been going a while but has anyone seen the drop to 50p per packet yet???!!
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The current range of special offers run to the 25th August. So suggest 26th would be a good date to give it a try.
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It is usually after the Bank Holiday, though that's quite late this year.
Stand by ................
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just checked the web site veg seeds from 49p
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I visited this morning and all the seeds were still half price, not reduced here yet........:(
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Last year it was on from the bank holiday weekend. I think it started slightly earlier for Gardening Club members.
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Offers on website show that 50% off is still the offer through to the 2nd of September
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It's on as of today for Garden Club members - am off in a moment or two to see what I can stuff into my seed boxes.
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Still 50% here today.
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Oxford one was 50p for GC members yesterday ..... and I didn't go of like a fox in a henhouse and buy 80+ packets of seed..... oh no....
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Gar......got my members letter from local Wyvales yesterday, no mention of a members day here! Snot fair!!!! :BangHead:
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Seems to be a goer here now. Got some bargains.↕ Big thanks to Debs for highlighting this, I did not expect it to start until after the bank holiday.
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No worries, I look forward to it and love hearing how much everyone bought and saved! Sad eh.
I just want it to start at my local shop!!!!!!!! (Stamps foot).
I've been on nights, just woken up and am now getting impatient!! :angry5: :icon_bounce: :angry5: :icon_bounce: :angry5: :icon_bounce: :protest: :protest: :protest:
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On the email I had it said it was on all seeds - didn't specify stores, and on other forums people from all round the country have been going.
Worth an investigative trip I'd say.
(I went yesterday and £16 bought me £100+ worth of seeds - all the Sarah Raven seed collections are reduced to 50p too, which I thought was unbelievable)
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Ah ha ha ha ha! At last!
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I didn't go quite as mad as Chriscross, merely 18 packets of various flowers, mostly Sarah Raven ones, 25 packets of veg seeds, total worth a whopping £103.86! Cost today....£21.50. Deep joy in the Deb P household today, well done Finden Wyvales, it was worth waiting for! :icon_cheers:
Ps, I meant to add this was a Garden Club members offer, so well worth joining to take advantage of this if nothing else!
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A visit to Leicester Rowena yesterday - I got just 9 packets but a few goodies - a single pack of Orkado tomatoes and some nice varieties of beans and Phacelia.
@Deb P: Also spotted the chocolate foxgloves but went for the key lime sunflowers instead.
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Our Wyvale had seeds @ 50p but they are all mixed in a box not in varieties as other years.
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My local store still had them on the racks so it was nice choosing. In Swindon they were stuffed into boxes and it was a really problem finding anything. Bit of a scrum.
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I'm so jealous! There's no Wyvale near me. I'd like some 50p seeds!
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Went back to our local Wyvale garden centre and you may not believe it but they have Christmas cards and crackers on sale 29th AUGUST :BangHead:
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I'm feeling positively virtuous.......Crisscross has just posted on another thread he's bought 120 packets of seeds in the sales........ :headbang:
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Yes, I've limited myself to 120 packets..... although some of them are multi-variety packs..... that said some of them I've bought specifically to sell the plants in the spring.... at the carboots I do I'm always being asked for things I haven't got, like butternut squash... so this year I will sow a few purely to sell them, I'm also pushing to have more herbs and some things that sold very well this year like kale are pathetically easy to get going
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Done my sums.... about 375 quids worth for 60.... 375 is more than I spend on my allotments total including any fuel used to haul manure, composts and fertilisers etc.... and that's before I flog off spare plants at a couple of car boots in the late spring...