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Thanks for the laugh. Where there's muck there's brass, eh?  ;D

ordered mine today  :P ;D ;D

Quote from: staris on June 03, 2009, 19:20:12
ordered mine today  :P ;D ;D

More money than sense  ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

Blimey! She also does 2, yes that's 2, small terra cotta flower pots for a knock down £56 to have then delivered, or just £36 if you pick them up....so that's...yes...£20 delivery charge. Now where is my credit card??  :o :o

Wow! You can by a lettuce for £0.35 in lidl, Who is it that pays this kind of money for some seedlings?

It is fashionable to HOME-GROW and there are lots of people out there who are just bursting to show their dinner party guests that they have a garden with the ability to supply all the organic vegetables for their meal.

Like when they had the latest Video recorder CD DVD and so on.

Technology seems to have peaked. Now the fad is growing your own.

Lets face it the price for an instant garden is far less than the latest  plasma screen TV or a mobile phone that does everything bar sexual release.

They used to call them yuppies, suppose they have a different name today but they are out there and will spend anything to display their superiority at the new gardening phenomenon.

We have been doing it for a long time and well, what more can I say?

I got 20 cabbage plants anyone want them they are only £90.00  -  well if sarah can find someone daft enough to get ripped off, I`ll have a go too.
I get a catalogue every year from here which I shred and us fot mulch

Quote from: zigzig on June 03, 2009, 20:59:31or a mobile phone that does everything bar sexual release.

You've obviously not seen my mobile phone...

My local paper had a free offer - 5 types of salad leaf mixtures, and 8 packs of Basil types, all I paid was £1.99 postage.    They were supplied by Cottage Garden Seeds at Woodbridge and are doing well.
Not the "designer" choice, but then who needs designer food anyway.

Quote from: Rhubarb Thrasher on June 03, 2009, 16:54:23poor lass has got to earn an honest living like the rest of us.

One packet Lollo Rosso, £1.99, average contents 250 seeds. Cost per seed, 0.79 pence.

One packet All year Round £1.49, average contents 2000 seeds. Cost per seed, 0.07 pence.

That's one hell of a living she's making even when you add compost and pots to the equation. 

oh Plot 69, I don't think she'll be offering All Year Round or Lollo Rosso. Too common by half. She'll have MERVEILLE DE QUATTRE SAISONS for instance - 6400 seeds, £1.69 Seeds Of Italy (0.026p per seed)  :D

and on top of the compost and pots, she'll have to pay Minimum Wage to lots of Eastern European people, and give them each their own Dibber........I'm surprised she makes ends meet

People have obviously been paying crazy prices for a while, but I wonder whether they still are, or whether ripoffs like this and the sort of nursery where you buy mature plants at grossly inflated prices for an instant garden are going to disappear.

I am afraid the high prices have spread to Garden Organic at Ryton - they want £4 for six cabbage seedlings, not heritage or anything just labelled "mixed". I thought about setting up a stall outside their gates and sell my surplus seedlings at £3. What do you think - will they cancel my membership??  ???

Even Lidl a few weeks ago were selling tomato plants for almost £4.  :o

I agree with zigzig. It's a fashion thing - it's very "in" these days to grow one's own. Regardless of expense, one must keep up with the in crowd.  ::)  I feel like somewhat of an inverted snob, but really once Huge Furry-Knitting-Balls made it infra-dig (pardon the pun), the rest were bound to follow, weren't they?  ;D

I can feed 5 of us for nearly a week for that.
I cant believe that people are so lazy. Where s the fun in that?
My Granddad used his lotte to feed his wife and 5 kids during the 30s as well as a bit of poaching.
He would laugh his head off at this nonsense.
Come the revolution I'll make growing your own stuff from seed compulsory.
Mind you will I will introduce that everyone gets an extra bank holiday a year, you will always get your own birthday off.
:)

MERVEILLE DE QUATTRE SAISONS

I'll do you a tray of 24 young plants for a quid, but you have to collect on Sunday!!  ;D

Is something special happening on Sunday, I think I may have forgotten, can you please remind me!!!!!!

 ;D you are winding me up....  ::)

Yes, I was.  Saw forget me nots for sale in B and Q for £4.95 (a bargain, I don't think).  Also seen spider plants for about £3.  (I DON'T BELIEVE IT).  Hope you have a good day on Sunday, wish I could be there but too far to travel.  Remind us again what are you doing????

QuoteI thought about setting up a stall outside their gates and sell my surplus seedlings at £3. What do you think - will they cancel my membership??

Do you care? Hydra and co are obsolete now we have Realseeds and Baker Creek.