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New products at Garden Buildings Direct

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Garden Buildings Direct just added these new lines

The Billyoh 12'x10' Windowless Greenkeeper 5000 Wooden Workshop from Garden Buildings Direct

The Billyoh 12’x10′ Windowless Greenkeeper 5000 Wooden Workshop from Garden Buildings Direct £699.99
The Billyoh 12’x10′ Windowless Greenkeeper 5000 Wooden Workshop from Garden Buildings Direct

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Price reductions at Unwins Seeds and Plants

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Price reduction on this product at Unwins Seeds & Plants

Nemaslug Nematodes: Slug Killer 100m2*

Nemaslug Nematodes: Slug Killer 100m2* was £18.95 now £17.95
Nemaslug Slug Killer Nematodes offer approximately 6 weeks protection from Slugs and Snails. Killing them both above and below the ground!  We have found Nemaslug Nematodes easy to apply and extremely effective. Nemaslug Slug Killer contains millions of naturally occurring microscopic nematodes that kill slugs both above and below ground for up to 6 weeks. They are completely harmless to birds hedgehogs and other wildlife (including pets and children). When you receive your pack of Nemaslug Nematodes place it in the refrigerator immediately and use within the use by date (which can be up to four weeks). Our Nemaslug application guide can be found here

New products at Unwins Seeds and Plants

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Unwins Seeds & Plants has this new product today

Erysimum Linifolium Variegatum* Buy 2 Get 1 Free!

Erysimum Linifolium Variegatum* Buy 2 Get 1 Free! £11.90
Unusual Variegated Foliage Provides a Perfect Foil for the Vibrant Lilac Flowers This easy to grow shrub loves the sun and if you dead-head the purple blooms regularly it will reward you with flowers right through the summer. The unusual variegated leaves with creamy-white edges are a stunning contrast to other evergreens in your garden. Prune early to encourage growth and prevent the plant becoming leggy. These hardy perennial varieties are grown from cuttings and supplied as big garden ready plug plants – 8 to 10cm (3 to 4

Price reductions at Thompson and Morgan

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Thompson & Morgan has cut the price of this item

Strawberry 'Christine' (Misted Tip) (Early Season) - 6 plants

Strawberry ‘Christine’ (Misted Tip) (Early Season) – 6 plants was £12.99 now £9.99
A mid season variety, Strawberry ‘Christine’ produces large, juicy sweet fruit from disease resistant plants. Cropping periods can also be brought forward or extended if you are growing them in a greenhouse or polytunnel. Height: 20cm (8”). Spread: 30cm (12”).Our ‘misted tip’ plants are cell raised, enabling them to establish quicker than traditional bare root strawberry plants. Increasingly used by the commercial growers, Thompson & Morgan is pleased to bring this strawberry growing development to home gardeners. As a result you will get not only a faster established strawberry crop, but also a more plentiful crop producing up to 100% more fruit in the first year, compared to planting bare root runners.

New products at Suttons Seeds

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Suttons Seeds has these new lines today

Apple Crab John Downie 1

Apple Crab John Downie 1 £17.99
Not only is this upright apple variety highly ornamental in the garden giving masses of soft pink blossom in spring but it’s an excellent pollinator for other apples. The yellow/orange fruits of John Downie are large for a crab and make the finest, clear crab apple jelly. Delicious eaten with meats and cheeses or just spread on buttery toast!Our apple trees are grafted onto an M26 rootstock which produces an easy-to-control semi-dwarf tree with medium vigour. Culture: Full growing instructions included.. 1 Bare Root Tree. . . . .

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Price reductions at GreenFingers

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

GreenFingers reduced loads of prices today

Tap Jacket

Tap Jacket was £8.99 now £7.99
An essential winter purchase for those with outside taps. This durable thermal insulating tap jacket secured by velcro strips fits from underneath the tap and up in seconds over any size tap to prevent freezing and bursting.

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New products at GreenFingers

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

New lines at GreenFingers

Spear and Jackson Neverbend Draw Hoe

Spear and Jackson Neverbend Draw Hoe £21.99
Spear & Jackson’s Neverbend range of garden tools are highly specified and hard wearing tools. This light Neverbend draw hoe with swan neck will be ideal for your cultivating tasks. The strong blade is set at a right angle to the shaft and is solid forged for durability. The blade smoothly pulls or draws soil towards you cutting through weeds and breaking up compacted earth. If you are sowing late-season crops it is an excellent tool for making seed drills. Features: Hammer finish epoxy coated head for improved resistance to rust scratches humidity and alkalines in the soil Tubular epoxy coated aluminium shaft. Long soft-feel grip ergonomically moulded to prevent hands from slipping. Specifications: Handle length 137cm Blade width 15cm

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Grow your own mushrooms!

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Grow Yellow Oyster mushroomI’ve done this and it’s quite easy. You just need to follow the instructions and then you too can be picking your own mushrooms and cooking with them. The kits allow you to grow exotic mushrooms at home which means you can cook with them without it costing you a fortune.

Mixed oyster mushrooms are £9.36/kg at Tesco and their exotic mushroom selection is £12.72/kg.

FREE DELIVERY on EVERYTHING too – whether you buy one kit or more!
Grow your own Mushrooms with these Easy Mushroom Kits!

From only £9.99, these easy to grow Mushroom Kits are a great way to
produce 100% natural, freshly grown, healthy Mushrooms.

From picked to table in less than 10mins, these Mushrooms are the perfect accompaniment
for your meals. An excellent ingredient for a healthy diet and with five different
varieties to choose from there is plenty of choice and flavours.

These Mushrooms are easy and fun to grow, brilliant for children too!

Our Mushroom Kits are supplied in a 3 Litre Kit consisting of a container to
grow the mushrooms, growing material (either compost or substrate depending
on variety) and all you need to grow fresh tasty mushrooms.

White Mushroom Kit, £9.99

Brown mushroom Kit, £9.99

Shitake Mushroom Kit, £9.99

Grey Oyster Mushroom Kit, £9.99

Yellow Oyster Mushroom Kit, £9.99

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Dead head, prune and harvest!

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

August is the time when you can enjoy the flowers a little, harvest some veggies and enjoy the garden. There’s still plenty of work pruning anything that’s going wild, dead heading to get longer flowering from plants and weeding!
It’s really hot at the moment but raining so expect the weeds to do really well this week!

Deadheading works because it stops the plant turning that flower head into seeds. Plants like to make seeds. So if you stop it, then it’ll try and have another go – by making another flower!

New products at Dobies

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Dobies just added loads of new lines

Peony Honey Gold 1 Bare Root Plant

Peony Honey Gold 1 Bare Root Plant £10.95
Pure white guard petals surround a mass of fringed yellow petaloids, which enlarge to a dome as the flowers age. Extremely fragrant. Height 75cm. Early: flowers early May.Buy any 3 Herbaceous Peonies and SAVE £3.00!Paeonia plants are a traditional mainstay of the English cottage garden border, their voluptuous blooms evocative of another era. They’re hardy, very easy to grow, relatively drought-tolerant and will put on an annual performance for decades to come. Ideal for cutting, they come in an awe-inspiring range of shapes and colours. Full grwoing instructions included. Mid October Early May These are perhaps the most well-known peonies, poking through the ground each March, their leaves quickly unfurling, and their fat buds bursting in to bloom in late spring and early summer. Ideal for cutting.

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