Bare Root Bargains best for budget gardening!

It’s bare root season and if you’re looking for great value, Jersey Plants Direct have the bargains for you! As mentioned in Amateur Gardening Magazine, Bare Root Plants are sometimes difficult to find in Garden Centres, Jersey Plants Direct have the bare root plant for you and delivered straight to your door at no extra cost!

Hurry, Bare root plants are only available until the end of November!

Peony Kansas, £7.99 -Peony Kansas is a vigorous dependable bloomer with beautiful large fully double carmine red flowers on strong stems. Peonies are great for borders and cut flowers.

Peonies Collection 3 Plants. £15.98

3 for the price of 2! Save £7.99(compared to buying individually) This collection of Peonies will bring delight for many summers to come. Create a selection of cut flowers with these large blooms. Varieties include Kansas, Sarah Bernhardt, Shirley Temple.

Hybrid Tea Roses Scented 5 Plants Bare Root, £15.99

Fantastic Saving – Save £18.96 (compared to buying individually) Bring beautiful colours and perfume to your garden with this collection of Scented Hybrid Tea Roses. Varieties include Ena Harkness, Orange Perfume, Mr Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth, Violet Perfume

The English allotment lottery mapped at the Guardian

Hundreds of freedom of information requests have revealed the length of council allotment waiting lists and the rents. Use the drop down list to explore the data (the grey areas are where no data was available)

Slight insanity reigns in Tameside

The new agreement (PDF) for Tameside (Greater Manchester) for example highlights this new plot use clause:

For the purposes of excluding compensation for improvements under section 47 of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908 the Tenant must not plant on the Plot: (a) standard or other fruit trees permanently set out; (b) fruit bushes (c) strawberry plants; (d) asparagus, rhubarb, and other vegetable crops which continue productive for two or more years. (5.11)

Man told to leave allotment given second chance by Epsom and Ewell Council

Another case of a plot not being tended enough to meet standards but they have given him a second chance.
Perhaps he needs a co-worker to help?

OFFER OF THE WEEK
*Free Potato Collection – Worth £15.00

T&M are offering a fabulous Potato KIT FREE* for every visitor – worth £15.00!

What you get in the kit:

5 x tubers of Potato ‘Vales Emerald’ – A Maris Peer/ Charlotte cross with an RHS Award of Garden Merit that is proving to be very popular. Potato ‘Vales Emerald’ produces generous yields of oval, cream-skinned and pale fleshed tubers. Perfect for your first potatoes of the year, and a simply delicious as a salad potato. Height and spread: 60cm (24″).

1 x potato planter – Holds approximately 40 litres of multipurpose compost (sufficient to plant 3 or 4 tubers).

5 x packets of vegetable seed – Receive 5 packets of quality vegetable seeds. The vegetable seeds will be chosen by us and may vary from those illustrated.

*Just pay £4.95 postage

Enter Offer Code: AF11109
Enter code in the box labelled “Enter catalogue or newspaper code:”

T&Cs: Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer code and is only valid with orders placed online at www.thompson-morgan.com.

START DATE: NOW

END DATE: Midnight Sunday 27th November 2011

Slideshow about the allotments at Ashton

They’ve been in the news a lot – Guerilla gardeners claim squatters rights on Ashton Moss

On St. George’s Day, Saturday 23rd April, 2011 we started a Green
revolution in Ashton-under-lyne, Tameside, in the tradition of English
radical group The diggers who during the period of the English
Commonwealth, in 1649 reclaimed the common land of St. George’s Hill
from the Lords of the manor by digging and cultivating it.

Thieves who stole from an allotment were caught after a vegetable identity parade
Story in telegraph

Story also made it to the mirror

At this time of year many people are tidying their gardens ahead of winter.
It’s an ideal time for applying a bark mulch to beds and borders which will help
to insulate plant roots during cold weather. And ready for winter arriving,
we are now stocking De-icing Salt. Current Offers

A discount code has been made available giving a 10% discount on Landscaping
Bark in bulk bags. The code is bark811 and is valid
until 21/11/2011. We also have 20% off Organic
Multi-Purpose Compost in bulk bags and small bags. No code required. Offer
ends 21/11/2011 whilst stocks last and is not valid in
conjunction with any other offers.20% off GroRight Autumn Lawn Food. No code
required. Offer ends 21/11/2011 and is not valid in conjunction
with any other offers.

GroRight
Autumn Lawn Food Twin Pack was £21.44 – now £16.14
GroRight
Fertiliser, Weed & Moss Killer/Autumn Lawn Food Combination was £16.22
– now £13.57
GroRight
Autumn Lawn Food was £13.22 – now £10.57

Best Sellers
Rolawn Direct’s current best sellers are listed below.
.Rolawn
Medallion Turf from £3.29 per m²
Rolawn
Turf & Lawn Seeding Topsoil from £77.74
Rolawn
Minster Pro Turf from £4.21 per m²
Rolawn
Blended Loam from £81.40
Rolawn
Beds & Borders Topsoil from £89.44

New Products
Rolawn are now stocking De-icing
Salt in bulk bags and packs of small bags, ideal for treating areas such
as paths, driveways and roads to avoid slipping in icy conditions.

De-icing
Rock Salt bulk bag from £179.99
De-icing
Rock Salt 10 x small bags from £86.28
De-icing
Rock Salt 20 x small bags from £134.16
De-icing
Rock Salt 30 x small bags from £182.04
De-icing
Rock Salt 50 x small bags from £233.40

They’re the best sort of Christmas presents to give someone who loves flowers! New items today at Jersey Plants Direct

Scented Indoor Hyacinth 7 Bulbs + FREE Diary £13.99
A Wonderfully scented Christmas plant giftSend this lovely Christmas gift delivered with your personalised message plus a FREE 2012 pocket diary! Upgrade to an ornate basket for just £2! Click here Orders must arrive by Monday 19th DecemberPersonalise your message at the checkout basket. Delivered with your own personalised message and Free 2012 Diary!These 7 beautifully scented pink pearl Hyacinth bulbs come planted in a basket and makes a perfect Christmas gift.

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Really this is your last chance to order winter bedding.
Get it ordered now and finish off your winter garden with some great colour.

Free delivery on everything at Jersey Plants Direct too.

Winter bedding helps you stay cheerful during the awful gloomy weather. These tough little plants are hardy enough to survive british winters and still produce plenty of colourful flowers

Mixed Autumn Bedding Collection 50 plants + 20 FREE £12.99
Looking for a mix of bedding plants in smaller quantities – this is the collection for you!Varieties are: Pansy Grande Fragrance: This beautifully scented plant has large flowers and is an excellent winter performer. Primrose Valiant: A fully frost hardy primrose. Pansy Cascadia (Trailing): A unique trailing variety that is ideal for hanging baskets and containers. Each variety will bloom at different times from autumn to spring/early summer.This collection of our best selling autumn bedding plants is perfect for smaller gardens where space is limited but you still want variety.

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Pumpkin cheat wins for real –