I've just been down to our local garden centre to get some tools and been amazed at the range of veg growing stuff on offer. I've been out of circulation for a while, growing veg for a job, so been buying stuff in bulk. They've got Asparagus crowns, loads of varieties of tates in small quantities (ie not a stone - who would want so many of one variety?), various crop covers. They've even got allotments to rent next door!
Things have changed since I disappeared into the farming world!
Amazing array of veg growing stuff at the garden centre
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oldherbaceous
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Afternoon Flanjamin, i take it your not going to be ploughing your new plot with a 10 furrow reversible plough then.... 
It's a lot more fun to grow for pleasure, so hope you enjoy yourself.
It's a lot more fun to grow for pleasure, so hope you enjoy yourself.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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FelixLeiter
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You evidently enjoy a better garden centre than the one near me, Flanjamin. Most garden centres stock little in the way of gardening stuff, is the impression I get — furniture, gift knick-knacks, clothing, food. But the smell, the smell! That awful mixture of coffee and fertiliser as a consequence of them all having coffee shops. It beats me how anyone can enjoy a brew in a gardening centre. Maybe it's just me, because there always seem to be plenty of customers cheerfully slurping down a foaming cuppa.
Allotment, but little achieved.
It is unusual in that you go through the gardening stuff to get to the Cotton Traders, pet shop etc, not the other way round.
And yes I won't miss sitting on a planter for 14 hours, harvesting leeks in the freezing cold, although I do miss my poly tunnels and hens.
And yes I won't miss sitting on a planter for 14 hours, harvesting leeks in the freezing cold, although I do miss my poly tunnels and hens.
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FelixLeiter - you can't smell fertiliser - it's all nicely sealed in those stupid bags down here that split the minute you look at them
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Flanjamin and Felix, you have obviously never been to Barton Grange Garden Centre, off the A6 just north of Preston! Ok, they also have the usual garden furniture, knickknacks etc but they also grow most of their own plants (you can see the growing grounds and polytunnels off the M6) and the plant staff really know their stuff. And they have a huge coffee shop which is very useful when you have travelled a fair distance to get there.
Personally, I am not always enchanted with some small nurseries who grow all their own plants because the owners tend to be specialists who concentrate on certain varieties, especially of flowers and alpines, which is fine if those are your hobby plants, too, but no good if you are a general grower. I have also been to some nurseries were the quality of the plants was dreadful, weed overgrown and some even dead.
Give me a large well-run garden centre anytime.
Personally, I am not always enchanted with some small nurseries who grow all their own plants because the owners tend to be specialists who concentrate on certain varieties, especially of flowers and alpines, which is fine if those are your hobby plants, too, but no good if you are a general grower. I have also been to some nurseries were the quality of the plants was dreadful, weed overgrown and some even dead.
Give me a large well-run garden centre anytime.