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Allotment Stuff => The Basics => Topic started by: tim on June 21, 2005, 11:44:42

Title: Shop around??
Post by: tim on June 21, 2005, 11:44:42
RAISED BEDS - 1mX1m - 25cm high -

Garden Equipment. £29.95 - 2 for £54.90 - p&p £3.50

Queenswood.         Â£34.99                                 Â£4.95

Garden Direct.         Â£35.95                                 Â£3.95   

Harrod. 30cm high.  £29,20                                 Â£4.95


Worth a thought??




Title: Re: Shop around??
Post by: philcooper on June 21, 2005, 11:56:54
Scrap wood left on allotment plot by local factory max of 2m x 20cm - free - a bit of effort to remove the staples and applying some form of preservative

Phil
Title: Re: Shop around??
Post by: shaolin101 on June 21, 2005, 12:19:32
Gonna get mine from B&Q - its just under £10 for 4 long panks of wood (cant remeber dimensions but they looke pretty rugged (they are planed as well).

Was gonna get those click/lock raised beds but way too expensive.
Title: Re: Shop around??
Post by: tim on June 21, 2005, 18:56:12
I KNOW!! I use planks too. But we have no scrap left-overs or Bs&Qs. Or scaffolding throw-outs.

Was just showing how anything can differ hugely in price.

Title: Re: Shop around??
Post by: BAGGY on June 21, 2005, 20:43:13
Would thought 'arrods would be the most 'spensive wouldn'tya?
Title: Re: Shop around??
Post by: annieb on June 22, 2005, 00:18:47
Quote from: BAGGY on June 21, 2005, 20:43:13
Would thought 'arrods would be the most 'spensive wouldn'tya?

Personally, I'm having a bit of a giggle here imagining the allotment equipment raised bed whatnots and watering butts mashed between the £500/oz. beluga caviar and the victorian estate jewellry *snorts*

=)

My paternal grandmother was a big fan of Harrod's, bless her, and she'd have possibly gone there to buy a gardener, complete with trilby hat, but certainly not have dreamed of doing anything in her garden apart from cutting roses and overseeing :)

Annie in Norway
Title: Re: Shop around??
Post by: BAGGY on June 22, 2005, 23:04:42
I know, I'm a thicko.  It's not THE 'arrods.    Doh!