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New products at MowDirect

Saturday, September 21st, 2013

MowDirect just added this new item

Gardencare 5 Ton Electric Horizontal Log Splitter

Gardencare 5 Ton Electric Horizontal Log Splitter £199.00
Making manageable sized logs for the fire, a wood burner or for a stove, can be a very strenuous and time consuming affair resulting in uneven logs and bits of splintered wood flying everywhere. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Now you can create logs effortlessly, cheaply and efficiently with this great value electric Log Splitter from Gardencare.High quality, but very simple to use and robust, this domestic horizontal log splitter represents exceptionally good value for money.The splitter exerts an impressive 5 tons of pressure per square inch, to enable you to split logs cleanly and evenly at the press of a lever, using a powerful hydraulic ram to drive each log against a strong, triangular shaped wedge. It can take logs up to 25 centimetres in diameter and 52cm long and splitting action is powered by a reliable 1500 watt electric motor so requires no maintenance and delivers clean, economic performance.The Gardencare 5 Ton Electric Horizontal Log Splitter comes with safety features including two-handed operation, ensuring your hands and arms cannot come into contact with the working mechanism while the machine is operating.Moving the unit around from one working area to another, or into a storage space, is made easy with the inclusion of transport wheels and the rubber, comfort handgrip.A strurdy stand is also included in the price allowing waist height working for greater comfort.

Price reductions at Suttons Seeds

Saturday, September 21st, 2013

Price reduction on this item at Suttons Seeds

Onion Sets - Snowball

Onion Sets – Snowball was £4.99 now £3.99
With a mild flavour, it is perfect for roasting, or using as the base for stocks and sauces. Traditionally used in Mexican cooking. Heat treated variety.Why buy heat treated onion sets?It’s frustrating when your beautifully forming onions decide it’s time to develop seed and send up a flower stalk. Heat treating is a process that we carry out to prevent this happening.So whilst they are a little more expensive, you can be more confident of harvesting onions you can be proud of!

New products at Suttons Seeds

Saturday, September 21st, 2013

Suttons Seeds added hundreds of new products

The Vegetable Gardener's Bible by Edward C. Smith

The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible by Edward C. Smith £15.99
Here comes a brand new, updated edition of this best-selling book for any keen vegetable grower, demonstrating acclaimed gardener, Ed Smith’s, unique system for growing high yield organic vegetables at home. Paperback, 352 pages.

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New products at Jersey Plants Direct

Saturday, September 21st, 2013

New items today at Jersey Plants Direct

Penstemon Taffy Collection 3 Plants 2 Litre

Penstemon Taffy Collection 3 Plants 2 Litre £23.98
Beautiful Garden PlantThese lovely Penstemon have 10 long flower spikes all summer into fall. The flowers have strawberry pink lips and white throats with strawberry pink guide lines. New spikes continue to grow from the base with dead-heading to encourage new lateral blooms. ‘Strawberry Taffy’ prefers good drainage and reasonably fertile soils.”

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Price reductions at GreenFingers

Saturday, September 21st, 2013

GreenFingers reduced the price on these items today

Botanico Wall Planting Pocket

Botanico Wall Planting Pocket was £2.99 now £1.49
Hook up your plants indoors or outdoors with this Botanico Wall Planting Pocket. Now you can have a vertical garden anywhere you choose and grow plants in any environment by creating your own flourishing living wall. Plants will feel right at home on your patio garden wall fence or rail. This planting pocket is easily attached to wood or concrete and has a waterproof PVC backing to stop walls getting damp. The breathable hessian fabric allows air to reach the roots preventing water logging sour soil and stops plants becoming root bound. It is perfect for an organic kitchen herb garden too. Quick to install Easy to plantRe-usable Dimensions: W23 x H26cm For ideas and inspiration for your garden d

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New products at GreenFingers

Saturday, September 21st, 2013

GreenFingers just added loads of new products

Starlight Solar Hanging Lantern

Starlight Solar Hanging Lantern £14.99
Create beautiful colour effects on your plants or other features at night with this stylish Starlight Solar Hanging Lantern. This decorative hanging lantern has 3 star-shaped colour changing LEDs that are sure to create interest in your garden. They will look perfectly wonderful hanging from a tree or would form an attractive and pleasing feature hanging at the entrance to a pergola or gazebo. Use your imagination! Stainless steel hangerOn/off switchMonocrystalline solar panel Rechargeable batteries includedWe recommend the solar panel is exposed to direct sunlight for as long as possible; however at darker times of the year it is best to recharge the batteries in a rechargeable unit.Overall Dimensions: 16.5cm diameter x 64cm high

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Getting on the allotment waiting list

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Getting on the allotment waiting list.

You should visit the allotment site you’re interested in. Ideally you’ll find it busy with hoards of plot holders working away tending their crops and harvesting. In reality you’re likelt to have to visit a few times before you can get let in, and then actually meet the person who deals with the waiting list.

You could just ring up. But it’s very likely you’ll be asked to visit the site before you are added to the list. Why? Because if it’s too much effort to pop round to the site to get on the list, then the chances are it’ll be too much effort to pop over and tend your allotment.

You’ll also get to see the site, be shown round, shown any vacant plots, find out about the facilities, or lack of them. It gives you a chance to get to know people too – you might already know people on the site. If you do then pop along next time they go and get stuck in weeding, digging or hoeing!

If you don’t fancy visiting a site and just want to be added to the list, then ask yourself why. Is there a good reason? You might not be living in the area at the moment and want to get on the waiting list. It might be that the site allows you to go on the waiting list before you’re in their catchment area, but it might not. You might be working away and looking to change your job, or you might only be available at strange hours and unable to come to the site to meet with the person who keeps the waiting list.

It’s essential to get on the list – so you’ve got to make the effort sooner or later to get down there and be added.

If you make an appointment to meet the site secretary then keep it. Mobile phone numbers are useful to give and take! Always let them know if you’re going to be late or not able to make it. You won’t make a good impression by keeping them waiting on site for you.

Questions to ask include:
What are the facilities like?
How big are the plots?
Are there any about to become available?
How many people are on the list?
Is there water on site?
What rules are there?
Can I have a greenhouse and a shed?

Questions to ask yourself include:
Do I have time for an allotment?
How much help am I expecting from my family?
How much help will I get from my family?
Am I already growing things?

New products at Garden Centre Online

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Garden Centre Online has this new product today

Hazelnut Jumbo 70cm bare Root Tree 20-04-19

Hazelnut Jumbo 70cm bare Root Tree 20-04-19 £9.99
Hazelnut Jumbo 70cm bare Root Tree Known as the ‘tree of knowledge’ by the Celts, Hazel trees are associated with wisdom and inspiration.  Hazelnut is a very popular deciduous ornamental fruit tree. Stunning heart shaped foliage is rich burgundy in spring fading to green and purple in summer. It produces pretty red catkins on its bare branches in spring the catkins are pollinated by the wind and it produces fruit in autumn. Will grow well in most positions. It makes a great specimen tree for small gardens.  Supplied as a 70cm Bare Root Tree.

New products at Gardening Direct

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Gardening Direct just added these new items

Penstemon Taffy Collection 3 Plants 2 Litre

Penstemon Taffy Collection 3 Plants 2 Litre £23.98
Beautiful Garden PlantThis lovely Penstemon has 10 long flower spikes all summer into fall. The flowers have strawberry pink lips and white throats with strawberry pink guide lines. New spikes continue to grow from the base with dead-heading to encourage new lateral blooms. ‘Strawberry Taffy’ prefers good drainage and reasonably fertile soils.”

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New products at Suttons Seeds

Friday, September 20th, 2013

Suttons Seeds just added these new items

Honeyfields Peanuts

Honeyfields Peanuts £37.99
A high energy, nutritious, year round wild bird favourite. High in oil, full of energy and a no mess food. Ideally fed through a wire mesh feeder. 12.6kg. Composition: Peanuts. The dramatic decline of Britains wildlife is a sad fact that many are now working hard to reverse. Pollinating insects like bees, along with wild birds, butterflies and other creatures have been left with little or no natural habitat as the landscape is reshaped through modern intensive farming. By using Conservation Grade bird food you support not only the birds in your garden, but wildlife across the whole country by returning 10% of the land it was farmed on back to nature.

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