Allotments 4 All
General => Bargains Galore => Topic started by: barkingdog on August 18, 2007, 16:33:35
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Went to my local Wyevale today and they were taking all the packets of seed down from the display stands and marking them at 50p per packet.
Could this be the Wyevale great sell off? Think I might go back tomorrow ;D
barkingdog
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Big sign on there website all seeds 50% off.
The sale has started!
Now going to get some before my local shuts.
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last week ours had seeds at 50% off but this is a new offer, same as last year except they've made the price 50p instead of 25p :(
Still very cheap though ;D
barkingdog
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I have just got back from Wyevale and have got 22 pkts of seeds for just £10.
Here's me thinking it would cost me a fortune to grow my own. ;D
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what did you get, anything good?
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Have you got the website link you mentioned? sounds good!
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Thanks for posting this! I'll be off to Wyevale tomorrow. Got loads of packets last year ;D.
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I just put wyevale in the search engine and went straight to their site!
Here is a list of the seeds that I got today. I am not too good on varieties so I probably got some really poor quality ones. Comments welcome on all varieties(please!)
tomato- ruby f1 hybrid
tomato- gardeners delight(seed mat)
tomato- moneymaker(seed mat)
tomato-marmande-beef(seed mat)
runner bean- rotbluhende(the teanie beanie)
beetroot- boltardy(seed tape)
beetroot-chiogga pink
beetroot- solo f1 hybrid
parsnip- tender and true(seed tape)
parsnip- tender and true
pea- jaguar
sweetcorn- f1 swift
sweetcorn-f1 applause
brussel sprout- bedford
carrot- early nantes 5
pepper- summer salad mixed f1 hybrid
pepper-(giant vegetable) jumbo sweet
cucumber- marketmore
broad/fava bean- the sutton
cabbage- f1 poet
cabbage-savoy estoril f1 hybrid
rhubarb- glaskins perpetual
radish- scarlot globe
cauliflower-lateman
As its my first year of growing on my allotment instead of my back garden I have probably gone overboard, but at that price I think I could afford to.
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Hiya Wolfie... I'll be round there tomorrow (Findern) before you buy them all out!
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lol
thought you might be. I know you were waiting for the sale to arrive
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Now £55 lighter...
What a bargin... £2-50+ packets for 50p... don't let them sell you the "Free" packs though!
Found Ovation and Minipop Sweetcorns...
;D
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thank u so much for this! spent a tiny bit too much i think- came home with 45 packs- is also my first year down the lottie!
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Far more disturbing than the number of pkts I bought was the huge pile of Christmas crakers on display.
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Wonder if there will be any left by the time I get out of work tomorrow? :(
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Now £55 lighter...
What a bargin... £2-50+ packets for 50p... don't let them sell you the "Free" packs though!
Found Ovation and Minipop Sweetcorns...
;D
And I thought I was bad.............. ::)
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l47/dlp133/seeds005.jpg)
A mere 59 packets, I only gave up looking because my back hurt from bending over rummaging! Lots of 'The Taste of Italy' and 'Eden Project' packets, that has cheered me up after working nights! ;D
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Great! up and out early tomorrow then........not that I need anything, but i'm sure to find something ::)
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I was wondering what to do with myself tomorrow evening ;D ;D ;D
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Hurrah! Just bought £97 worth of seeds for...... the grand sum of £23. Plus I got the bulb voucher FWIW. Quite a bit of what they're selling could still go in now too. Hmmm...
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its not fair the nearest place is an hour away for me!
(still tempted though)
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Hmm, wish I'd found out about this earlier! Now will have to wait untill next weekend and hope there are still some left. Never been to Wyvale, but will be worth the cycle ride out if I can grab a few bargains for next year.
SP x
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I have tonnes of seed, far more than I will need.
50p is a bargain, but not if I don't need them.
I will resist, I will resist ;) (I hope)
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The bins are quite big SueSteve... usually last a couple of weeks!
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Al says you win Deb, you have one allotment, we have several so you bought too much!!!!
8)
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No car for me for a week, and Wyvales is in Chelmsford, so mum is going to her's for me tomoz and going to have a looksee. Oh joy! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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They had everything but the seeds I wanted >:( but it didn't stop me coming out with 13 packets more. ;D
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It must vary a lot from branch to branch. The only thing I couldn't get was mini sweetcorn and a long parsnip. There were a few varieties I've never heard of but I figure the weather is one of the biggest factors & part of the fun is trying new varieties.
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I have decided to have a sulk tomorrow and i am visiting a friend which is 1/2 way to wyevale :-) but I will call before i head that way just in case the seeds are gone or shock horror not on sale!
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Now £55 lighter...
What a bargin... £2-50+ packets for 50p... don't let them sell you the "Free" packs though!
Found Ovation and Minipop Sweetcorns...
;D
Whats wrong with the free packs??
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I got 36 packets ... and I'm sure I must have dropped some en route to the till as I've realised that I came away without any peas ???
The Wyevale I go to has around a third of the seeds it was selling off last year, guess that's why they are not as cheap.
Thanks for the tip off.
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I went to Wyevale Newport yesterday. Thousands of packs of seeds! It took me an hour to look through them all, as they were all jumbled up in about 15 of those garden buucket things with handles. I stood out a bit though, as everyone else seemed a bit 'a la posh', all dressed up and buying garden related ornaments.
Anyway, I got £57 of seeds for £13. I picked up a lot more at first, but then forced myself to go through them all and put the least interesting ones back. I still think I have too many!!!Cant wait till next year now.
The Italian seeds seemed good value, as they were huge packs, but one or two I saw were only 50p to start with.
cj :)
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Nothing at all wrong with the free packs Cams... just don't forget they are free!
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To anyone in Gloucester or surrounding area, the country garden centre by Stonehouse has seeds reduced to 50p a packet. Unfortunately I was unable to resist!!! ::)
They had 3 big bucket/trugs filled with packets, it wasn't easy to sort through them but I came away with £49 worth of packets for £10.50!!
I think the nice thing about buying like this is that it makes you try a variety that you may not have bought otherwise.
Country Gardens Ltd
Ebley Rd, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire GL10 2LW
Tel: 01453 823846
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My nearest Wyevale is more than an hour's drive... :'(
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Mum is at her's in Morden as we speak. She phoned, but her batteries ran out, to check the sort of things I was after. I told her to use her imagination. Lots of Italian packs apparently. She will call me when she gets home. Our local nursery doesn't sell theirs off special, but for anyone in North Devon, Banstaple, Brian Fords down by the leasure centre usually does and sells them at between 50% and 75% off pack price. For big packs it can work out cheap cheap. I pick up anything else I am after in there in October when I am down.
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Al says you win Deb, you have one allotment, we have several so you bought too much!!!!
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Is there such a thing? :o
Ah, but having had my allotment for only a year I have to experiment to see what does well you see........(that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!) ;D
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just rang one of the 2 wyevale shops i am near, apparantly the seeds were only dropped to 50pence yesterday and there is loads left ;D
I am going to stick the list of what i have already onto my PDA so i dont duplicate 2 much.
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I to have been to Wyevale and brought £19's worth.I have still got loads left from last year when they were 25p a packet but I needed a few more.Some of the packs I brought are dated until 2010.Well worth a visit.
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Mum spent £22 on my behalf! :o However, some are for my sister so I will let her off. Taste of Italy, Mexico, the Med and India sound interesting.
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Following a little Retail therapy at Wyevale I Spent £19 (actual cost of seeds £75) and got 41 packet of seeds 4-5 are for other people but i managed to pick up leek seed tape and mats for herbs and tomatos.
Beetroot - Chioggia Pink 3packs
Runner Bean - Summer Medley
Pea - Twinkle
Sweetcorn - Minipop F1 2 packs
Cabbage - Walking Stick
Cabbage - spring advantage F1 Hybrid
Cabbage - Savoy Estoril F1 Hybrid
Pepper - Big Banana F1 Hybrid
Carrot - F1 Maestro
Carrot - Early Nantes 5
Tomato - F1 Sweet Million
Tomato - Tumbling Tom Red
Cauliflower - Romanesco Early
Cauliflower - Igloo
Cauliflower - F1 Trevil
Onion - Sweet Spanish Yellow
Onion - Bedfordshire Champion
Onion - Red Rossa Di Toscana SOI
Parsnip - White Gem
Onion - Brown Pickeling SY 300
Onion - Paris Silverskin
Bean - Cannellino Impero Bianco SOI
Bean - Borlotto Firetougue
Tomato - Cuore Di Bue SOI
Beans - Yardlong Dolico Del Metro SOI
Pepper - Rubens SOI
Tomato - San Marzano Lungo F1 Hybrid SOI
Spinach Viridis SOI
Onion - White Tonda Musona SOI
Leek - Musselburgh SEEDTAPE 2 packs
Tomato - Seed Mats Moneymaker - Gardeners Delight - Beef steak 3 packs
Herbs - Parsley coriander basil chives
Marigold - Bonita Mixed French
Sweetpea - Jet set mixed
Sunflower Collection - Tall Single Irish Eyes Autumn Beauty Paquito and teddy bear (5 individula packet of seeds inside collection)
Lots of seeds of italy and most in date till 2009 ;D
Making a cup of tea and putting feet up now.
Cambourne7
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Windy wet weather this afternoon some retail therapy needed............."Kids get your coats on lets go to the garden centre"..... Off I went and the seeds were all in shopping baskets so while the kids played climbing a post (holding up the roof and sorting seeds I was there on the floor sorting out what I really didn't need....but they are a bargin. I'm sure people walking passed thought that there was two children just playing on there own. ;D
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hehe, sounds like all 3 of you had a great time. Did the retail therapy work?
what did you buy and how much did you spend ?
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Like Norman Tebit's dad, I got on my bike and went in search of seeds today. Off up to Wyvale. All I wanted was peas. Did they have any? Did they bugger. Every other sort or seed you could want for 50p but not a pea in sight :(
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Oh Si, we went to the one in Braintree today a I was after sweetcorn. No sweetcorn but a bucket full of peas and beans!
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oh EJ, if i had known there was loads of sweetcorn where i was!!
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Eeeeeeeee! Thought I'd be too late to bag any bargains, but I've just come back from a foraging trip with over £140 worth of seeds for just over 35 quid! Won't bore you with the details but among my favourites are:
Chillies - Apache, Demon Red and Joe's Long,
Sweet Pepper Gypsy - one of Tim's recommendations, I think,
Carrot Samurai - pink carrots!
Sprouts Red Delicious - purple sprouts,
Cabbage Kalibos - red, pointed
Dwarf French Bean Purple Queen - yup! Purple (almost black) pods
Melon Sweetheart
Alpine Strawberry Mignonette
Lemon Grass
The Apache chillies alone were originally £3.50 (for a measly 6 seeds), hence the massive savings - and, as others have mentioned, most packets have an expiry date of 2009, which means I won't have to buy any more seeds till... er...
... next time? ;D ;D ;D
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wow you have done well!!
I found the seed mats a bargin and they split up into strips.
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I was lucky, Cam, I spent a whole hour digging through the veg seed bin uninterrupted.
It's the ones I put back that will haunt me though. :'(
Still, it's open tomorrow...
NOOOOOOOOOO! MUSTN'T!
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Amazin, I'm thinking of another trip too for those peas that I accidentally put to one side.
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...great to hear your planning on going back :)
do tell us what you pick up.
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Unlucky SiD... we had peas and Sweetcorn, got my Ovation and Minipop for next year... didn't need any peas as I grow and save my own heritage........
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the only thing i could not find was walking onions which i am trying to find.
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Are those the onions that produce the babies at the top?
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yup i have not seen them anywhere.
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I had every intention of not going anywhere near Wyevale, but the car had just been fixed and it needed a little run... :-[
spent ages rummaging through the bins (got talking to a loverly old couple about allotments :)) and came away with £92 worth of seeds for £21 ;D
I even managed to find some seeds that I actually went in for!
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sounds like you had a whale of a time :-)
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Yay mum managed to get me proper sweetcorn, and thanks Amazin for the minipops! Looks like the only thing I will be buying at full price will be seed spuds, shallots and garlic. The bank manager will be overjoyed!
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Looks like the only thing I will be buying at full price will be seed spuds, shallots and garlic. The bank manager will be overjoyed!
Mine will also be happy :-)
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Mine won't, but there again why change?
Finally succumbed (on the pretext that I needed some more slug pellets and its closer than Wilkos) Had to walk past the baskets to get to the pellets ((a fiendish ploy - that worked))
No sweetcorn but found some interesting varieties of broad bean, carrot and beetroot that I haven't tried before.
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I managed to track down my nearest Wyevale yesterday, 30 mins drive but worth it after reading about all your bargains on here :).
I walked in through the door and there were a couple of buckets straight in front of me. Hubby and I scoured these and we got a few packets of seed. Further into the store we came across another couple of buckets and got another few packets. I was happy with what I had chosen until we came to the checkout. There in front of me were another ELEVEN buckets. I don't think the other shoppers were too happy walking around us (me, hubby and two kids) whilst we sorted out what we wanted. I didn't even attempt to look at the flower seed :-\.
All in all we got 19 packets of seed for £9.50. These 19 packets should have cost £41.82 and on top of that we got three packets of Beetroot free ( one packet free with any two packets of Thompson & Morgan seeds).
OK, I know you're all nosey and want to know what I bought so here goes:-
3 x Beetroot chioggia pink (free)
2 X Tomato F1 shirley (one packet for hubby's uncle, he swears by these tomatoes, so thought I would buy a packet for me to try too)
Leek F1 carlton
Cantaloupe Melon F1 early sweet
Broccoli (sprouting) summer purple
Thompson & Morgan Kids Super Seeds Katy Carrot parmex
Aubergine black beauty
Suttons Herb Collection (dill, sage, sweet basil, marjoram, thyme)
Tomato totem F1 hybrid
Turnip snowball
Tomato gartenperle
Gherkin diamant F1 hybrid
Tomato tigerella (mr stripey)
Swiss Chard bright lights
Sweetcorn baby corn
Cucumber F1 burpless tasty green
Onion white lisbon
Iceberg Lettuce set
Rosemary
Now, I don't know if you remember, but I DON'T have a lottie, I grow in containers, so where I am going to grow this little lot, I don't have a clue.
Oh, forgot to say, our Wyevales also has an aquatics part, so we also came away with three Endlers for Hubby's tank ::).
Jo.
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I couldn't keep away any longer!!!
I was not very impressed with the range of seeds that they had, only a few handfuls in a barrel, but I bought
Suttons Savoy cabbage Ormskirk rearguard (for the chickens, we dont eat cabbage!)
T&M Leek Pandora
Suttons Okra Clemsons spineless (never eaten before, but thought we'd give it a go!)
Suttons Chilli Demon Red (one for dh to grow)
Suttons Mustard x2 White (wondering if I can use this as a green manure, is it the same type of mustard?)
Suttons D french bean Purple Queen (purple is my fav colour, so had to buy them!)
Carrots - Suttons Yellowstone
Alan Titchmarsh Nantes 2
Suttons Samurai
Suttons Parmex
Suttons Chantenay red cored 2
Suttons Celery Loretta
Giant Red (never grown celery before, but I use it a lot in cooking, so will save buying from the supermarket!)
Cost - £7. Should have cost £25.19!
Sue
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I could not stay away either!
Dragged OH to our nearest one and spent £20.00..................£71.33's worth of seeds! ;D ;D
(not telling what I spent on cabbage plants and flowers though! :o :-X)
DP
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Just bringing this to the top again because I went to my local Wyevale (York) today and they still had loads of seeds for 50p a pack. I could have spent an absolute forune- as it was I got about 40 quid's worth for 14- best one was a pack of 5 varieties of sunflower- was 4.25, got it for 50p. ;D
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Caroline,
I got that pack of sunflowers too! A real bargain.
cj :)
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yes so did I :)
Good to know that there are still seeds around - not that i need anymore honest.
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hi
went to wyevale(york) on sunday 07/10
still had some seeds at 50p
bought a couple of other things got to the till and they said the seeds I had picked out were FREE ;D. wish I had got more now ::)
Debs
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Hey, that's not fair! ;D So are they all free if you buy something else? Might have to go back!
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Those will be the T+M packs free with two others..
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Thats me at the weekend then, if theres any left that is. ;D ;D ;D
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Hi Im new to this but what a great start ,just got back from my local store, 30 packets for £15.
I'm made up , thanks for the tip
Regards Pitch
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Has anyone been to Wyevale at Syon Park?
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Hi I'm new to this but what a great start ,just got back from my local store, 30 packets for £15.
I'm made up , thanks for the tip
Regards Pitch
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Welcome to A4A Pitch :)
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Welcome, Pitch.
Now to find out how much you really saved, count up the original prices - I guarantee you'll be more than made up!
:o ;D