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Wow have they gone up in price !! Wilko used to be 100 for 99p this year 50 for £2.00 !!!!!!!!!!! Will pass on them, went ot the range and theres are £2.49 for 100 + think i will grow from seed next year !

Had a count and there where 131 in the pack :)

I vaguely remember at the end of last year something about the price of onions and sets  were due to go up because of a poor harvest or something? ::)

I PAID £2.50 FOR 50 SETS PLUS £1.50 P&P FROM KINGS SEEDS

JTW

We have a charity garden shop near where I live, employs people with learning probs...  I have just bought £1s worth.   Got 66 sets

The lottie shop was selling them at £3 a kilo... not sure how many that is .. but it's a lot.. Got 2.5 Kilo..  :)

Will the shop be open tomorrow and can anyone buy?

saddad......that around 700 sets
hope you got plenty of space     ???

;D ;D ;D ;D....JTW

QuoteWow have they gone up in price !!

Yes!!   I have noticed this right across the whole range of veg.

Perhaps I have been growing too long and have noticed these changes year on year, and how it has affected me.

I hope I am not being too cynical, but I think it is a commercial con.

They keep throwing at us things such things as; climate change causing crop failures, organic goods being more labour intensive then why am I getting a fair return from my own saved seed  and growing methods.

No !! it is my feeling that the recent influx of 'new growers' are the target and commercialism is jumping on to this phenomena.

Trouble is; us older growers who remember prices like Dawn has mentioned have to pay the current prices whether we like it or not. New growers don't know any better so they are quite happy to pay the going price!

There was a time when I didn't bother saving seed because it was reasonably priced but not now............my pension doesn't stretch to that......I now save as much seed as I can to reduce my cost.

When I came into this game I did it not just for the fresh veg!  but for the  'economy' of it as well.

Sorry for the 'gripe' but it is how I feel about the situation and I had to take the opportunity to get it off my chest!

Sorry!! Tg

I agree Tee Gee i feel the same its supply and demand !
Never done jap onions from seed i many years growing so that will be a first :)

As an old time gardener myself I think that the gripe is justified on many of the products, especially seeds. As an example, 1 psb plant this year was cropped for at least six weeks but without taking the central bud. This was allowed to grow up for seed but when in full flower a gale snapped the stem off. Subsequent lesser growth went on to produce half a mug full of seed. (At least 100 packets.)

However, putting my oracle hat on and at great risk of annoying some of the lower ranks, I believe that generally the prices are still low but with greater rises yet to come.

For the best part of two decades prices of key products such as onion sets have been pegged artificially low due to the buying power of large national outlets coupled with their drive for market share over price. The recent financial crisis together with the recession has forced everyone to look carefully at the figures.

Growers now have the option of selling at a loss to superstores or grow a low profit, low expense crop for open market. What would you do?

The prices quoted for growmore appear expensive but turn the clock back to the early 50's it was out of the price range of most workers.

My appologies. My thoughts were crossed with two similar threads but the jist of the post remains true.

In my local nursery The Clockhouse they have packets of Red Electric and Radar at £1.85 for 50 sets.
Troy yellows £1.85 for 50 sets.
Yellow Senshyu £1.15 for 50 sets.
I'll wait for the loose Senshyu and reds to come in, they work out a lot cheaper.
;D ;D ;D

I think you're right here. We're on our way back to the sort of prices we paid in what my girls call 'the olden days'. All the more reason to save our own seed, and use organic fertilisers we can brew up in a barrel!

My lottie shop is just doing Radar loose at £1-30 per lb or £2-60 per kilo so you can have as many, or as few, as you want.